Una serie de acotaciones al margen a medida que voy leyendo algunos libros... A series of annotations whilst reading interesting books... A collection of notes on books about science, SciFi, history, others topics... Una colección de notas sobre libros de ciencia, ciencia-ficción, historia, otros...

21 February 2011

To Kindle....

or not to Kindle...? That´s the question!

Looking at my side bed desk I can see several kilos of books and magazines. The physical weight and the cost of shipping in/out of Timor-Leste of the books, make me think about getting a Kindle, or another eReader. Here is the list:
  • Particulas Elementales, de Gerard´t Hooft
  • Che Guevara, Una Vida Revolucionaria, de Jon Lee Anderson
  • Out of the Shelter, by David Lodge,
  • The Origin of the Species, 1st Edition, by Charles Darwin (already read the 6th Edition in Spanish, but you must read the 1st)
  • The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin (read! but documenting notes and quotes - starting on my tweet feed soon)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth, by Richard Dawkins (read also! But needs quoting!)
  • What Evolution Is?, by Ernst Mayr (read! needs quoting)
  • In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
  • Statistics Hacks, by Bruce Frey
  • Sciam of Febrruary 2011, November 2010 and October 2010
  • National of December 2010 and July 2010
And the worst is my back log of non read books! Neal Stephenson, Stephen J. Gould, John Irving, etc, etc!

Ok, I can put all them in a Kindle, or another reader, and take them with me almost weightless! That´s a good reason! Also is very good that you can take notes, save clippings and quotations and highlight passages! That´s a lot of good reasons!

But having a library that can hold 100 or 1000 times the number of books of my actual physical library, it just scares me too much! As a junkie book buyer, I love to walk and browse bookstores, and I always walk away with some more 2 kilos to transport in/out of Timor... But the physical representation of the books impose a physical limit of the amount of books I accumulate in my back log to read. But with an eReader.... I will walk less the bookstores, and I will have zillions of books in my virtual library...

eReader? No yet, thanks....