Re: OT: Reading Cisco Press book via Kindle

From: L Pham <ccie17030_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:51:47 -0700

   He he, I have an old pic. of my 2 years-old-girl "reading" Richard
Steven vol. 2 book ;-)))

  The funny part is when I asked what do ya reading, she answer: " I
want to see what you read " !!!

  lP

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, ALL From_NJ <all.from.nj_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know team ... something to be said about carrying Cisco books.
>
> For one, it makes one of your arms strong / bigger ..., and for second
> people think you are smart when they see you with a book that has more than
> 5 chapters and limited / odd pictures.
>
> When someone says to you: "you actually read that stuff?"
>
> You can answer with an ever so slight cool grin on your face "yeah, ...
> <dramatic pause>... I'm a stud"
>
> Kindle shmindle ...
>
> lol ;-)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, michael haynes <mghaynes_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ahmed,
>> Keep in mind the kindle ONLY uses battery power when you have its wireless
>> turned on (only when you're downloading books) or when you turn pages.
>> Typical battery time is about 2 weeks for average use I'd say. The DX is
>> not really portable for daily travel but so much better than lugging even
>> one cisco book around and the fact that you can have so many technical
>> books
>> and articles at your disposal makes it a win for me :D
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Ahmed Ibrahim <ahmadutj_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Kelvin,
>> > Only got to know about the Kindle yesterday and it seems to have it's
>> > advantages.
>> > It looks light enough to beat the hell out of lugging those hefty
>> > Cisco Press books.
>> > Not too sure about a book that needs to be recharged though.
>> > Personally I prefer a book with pages I can flip and I just looove
>> > that new book smell.
>> > But...a Kindle could "rekindle" my interest in reading. So I say "Go for
>> > it"
>> >
>> > Ahmed.
>> >
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