Comments on: Kindle for iPhone app: Amazon and Apple both win http://www.geeked.org/2009/03/06/kindle-for-iphone-app-amazon-and-apple-both-win/ excited about social technologies Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: StephanieInCA http://www.geeked.org/2009/03/06/kindle-for-iphone-app-amazon-and-apple-both-win/comment-page-1/#comment-34 StephanieInCA Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:07:46 +0000 http://www.geeked.org/?p=94#comment-34 My biggest concern about the Kindle, aside from it’s weird, book-buring-esque name, is that it <a href="//urbzen.com/2009/02/09/amazon-kindle-privacy-fail/”" rel="nofollow">compromises the integrity of the written word</a>. A printed book may be unwieldy, but you know that once it’s on your shelf, not one letter is going to change. Can’t say the same for the Kindle. Also, when I spill coffee all over a book, I’ve only ruined that particular book :) My biggest concern about the Kindle, aside from it’s weird, book-buring-esque name, is that it compromises the integrity of the written word. A printed book may be unwieldy, but you know that once it’s on your shelf, not one letter is going to change. Can’t say the same for the Kindle.

Also, when I spill coffee all over a book, I’ve only ruined that particular book :)

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