Kindle anyone?

No doubt about it, the news for me is the release of Kindle. As an avid reader that carries too many books around, it certainly has my attention.

I have read some reviews but want to hear from some readers that may have put their hands on one.

How many pastors will have this under their stocking this year?

Let's assume that this product follows other technology and price drops (see iPhone) and features such as memory improve. THEN

How will this tool be used in discipleship?

How could it be used in missions?

How could it be used in other contexts of a church and its mission?

Any thoughts?

Comments

[Eric Zeller]

I don't have a Kindle yet, but I do have the similar in some ways Sony Reader. As a pastor, I have been using the reader to preach from. I just upload a .PDF of my sermon notes and it works great to be able to have that in the pulpit as opposed to a bunch of pages of notes. The only flaw is that the page refresh is not immediate.

[Chris S.]

I am pretty sure I am going to stay away from the Kindle unless they let me give away books that I have purchased. For me reading a book is a relational experience. I buy books all the time, read them, then give them away to others that would be into it or would be encouraged by it.

Can't do that with the Kindle, the device would isolate me in a my own little world a little further.

[stephen shields]

Dave,

This is very significant. For a while now, I've suggested that when cheap digital paper combines with ubiquitous broadband internet access then television ad $ will start flowing towards such a new platform. While I'm not at all sure that Kindle is *it*, I do believe that it's a promise of *it*. Especially as such a platform becomes commoditized, we may see an information revolution that even exceeds (but builds on) that of the world wide web itself. While we still should avoid an unwarranted technological triumphalism, the widespread use of such devices would clearly have very significant kingdom implications. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[Jeremy Davidson]

What if you were able to combine the interactivity provided by the recently released www.youversion.com with the books you read. Maybe you get an idea while reading The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley and you tag a particuliar passage to....blog about it, Facebook it, email it to your staff, add it to your dissertation, upload a document or mp3 or video to it,...did I mentioned that it would automatically add an embedded-hyperlinked citation.

Students at universities and seminaries get these at enrollment for text books. Your text books become keyword searchable and interactive. I love keyword searching Amazon.com to find relevant books for my papers.

Let's put an always active Amazon.com wishlist on the toolbar so that while I am going through the footnotes I can drag and drop books for future purchase.

[Antoine of MMM]

Kindle should do ok, but the subscription system needs some work. Also, there has not been one attractive angle taken of the device in action. It either looks like something from the early 90s, or something much larger than it really is.

The Amazon store integration is key, but this device will need more than a name to get it rolling.

In terms of ministry, there are a few places that Kindle can go, especially on the mission field where power is a premium and solar/wind charging might not be an option but paper is not as durable. Even still, the device will compete against devices such as the Nokia N810 which has a smaller size, just a nice screen (albeit a lower resolution and color), and a few more doodads.

As for a wish list, I'd personally love to play with it. Just to see how well the screen looks in a production device.

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