Sooooo
First Impressions:
-> Very light. Not a surprise there. Keyboard much smaller than I imagined. For some reason in the pictures it looks much clunkier and less sleek.
-> Cover is wonderful. Love how easy it is to bend back, the quality all of it.
-> Sooo easy to use. I don't know if this is just because I'm too used to doing everything with technology, but I didn't even really have to look at the manual unless I had specific things I wasn't figuring out. I plugged her in, charged it, and was ordering James Joyce in about a minute.
-> I have a slide texting keyboard on my cellphone so I feel like the keyboard is already second nature to me. Not hard to get used to AT ALL.
Things to still figure out:
-> I've got calibre going now, which is great. I haven't tried the free Kindle word doc conversion service which I'm very interested in. Hopefully that'll work out nicely. I did convert one of my stories from word doc to txt (just copying and pasting), and it was neat to see my own words on the screen.
-> While I know that the small screen isn't the best for pdfs, I wanted to use it for short stories at least. I put on three short stories I have to read for class, but because of the really bad scanning in (still left huge black spaces around where the book was scanned in; the teacher probable just did it herself), it was really hard. I still need to figure out how to crop pdfs. It'd be cool if I could somehow divide them into two images so then instead of two pages at a time, it'd be one, but I'm not sure how to do this so far. There must be a way.
Content:
-> Downloaded a bunch of James Joyce for 3 as I was saying earlier. Fast, easy, amazing.
-> Downloaded the 14-day trial of The New York Times Literary Supplement
. Interesting to read on the bus, even though it distracted me from Timothy Findley which I have to read for class. Paper just isn't as fun as playing with something so brand new!
-> While waiting for class, chilling with my friends, we decided to see if any of our creative writing profs had ebooks. I doubted it since it's Canada and most of them, while award winning, aren't huge selling. No dice. But, wonderfully, Steven Galloway who is from B.C. and teaches at UBC had two ebooks available to download. And he's awesome. One book I already had in paper copy, I downloaded the other. Amazing to just start reading it in seconds. Soooo a solid A for Contemporary Canadian literature. It would've gotten an A+ if it had my profs' books.
Biggest problems:
-> NOT SPENDING ALL OF MY RENT AND FOOD MONEY ON EBOOKS!
-> Does the next page button wear out for anyone? For some reason, I feel like if I press it too much, it's just going to get looser and looser.
And those are my first impressions! Thank you and good night!