Howdy all!
I received a Kindle 3 as a birthday gift in September and have been enjoying it a great deal.
A little story for you:
Recently, I had to collaborate with a coworker to modify a document.
He would read sections in French, translate on the fly and I'd type in the translation.
I type about fifty words per minute faster than he does and I don't read scientific French well enough to do this quickly; it was time-sensitive.
I was about to print out eight PDF files and hand them to him.
Instead, I copied the PDF's to my Kindle 3 and handed it to him. (it could have just as easily been a Nook or an iPad)
"Can you read the screen OK?" (it was a scanned PDF - no scalable text)
"No problem!" says the 70 year old coworker.
This "event" might not seem like a big deal but my bureau's recycling bins are overfull with one-time-use printed material I'm happy to not contribute to.
A humorous aside: for most of the week, coworkers have been fretting over a half-working photocopier and a dwindling paper supply we suspect is being raided by neighboring offices. I feel some sense of smugness when asked, "what's up with the printer?" being able to answer, "no idea, I never print anything."
Why am I the only person who doesn't print things?