Hello everyone...As of Monday (assuming UPS comes through) I will have a Kindle 2 from Amazon. I bought immediately after the recent $40 price drop. One of my best friends has had a Kindle 1 for about 18 months, and I am looking forward to enjoying this. I read a variety of stuff, quite a bit of science and nature to support my nature photography hobby, a lot of history, especially military history and the history of exploration, and I am a long-time avid science fiction reader.
My Kindle is scheduled to be delivered on Monday, but UPS played with my heart a bit by (according to their tracking) bringing the package into Oklahoma City early Friday morning, and I was repeatedly checking "shipment tracking" all day long to see if it might be delivered Friday afternoon!
I am quite a gadget geek....I've used a Palm Treo Smartphone for several years and replaced it with the new Palm Pre this Summer, and I have a Creative Zen "media player" to listen to music and watch video while traveling (I travel by air about five roundtrips a year between my work and my hobby). I'd love to see a Kindle app for my Palm Pre similar to that for the iPhone, though I realize the screen would be much smaller and less satisfactory for reading.
I have lurked in the forum for a couple of days, and look forward to learning in a more overt way now, and eventually contributing my share. Thanks to the forum operators and mods for running the place!
