A note on reading, technology and mental illness

re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

jesseliberty — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:38:58 GMT

The PDFs you can get on the kindle (you mail them to your kindle and amazon converts them for a dime). I know that Adam's book is on the Kindle and Chris and Ian's book is not (but you can get it as PDFs on Safari!) so... it isn't a perfect solution but it kinda works.

I actually don't love the Kindle for techie books (at least not converted pdfs) but I do like having books I can carry in my bad arm.

Do you find that you also read fiction; or just geek stuff?

re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

WynApse — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:13:59 GMT

Jesse... great post...

I read a LOT .. not so much lately with all the SL going on, but within an arm's reach here I have Laurence's Silverlight book, Adam Nathan's Silverlight book, the Sells & Griffithss WPF book, and ASP.NET Ajax in Action by Gallo, Barkol, and Vavilala, not to mention all the pdf's of sites and blog posts I have tagged for reading.

-Dave

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re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

jesseliberty — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:16:37 GMT

>>a) I mostly read computer books, what about all these computer books coming out? I have not seen any of these books being offered on Kindle or maybe I missed it.<<

Me neither, and this is a major drawback. My guess is that it will depend on market conditions; I have no idea how long it will take for the curves to intersect.

>>b) With regular books, I also like to use highlighter, and highlite an area that is important. Some are in yellow, or red or blue, depending on the importance. Is there a way to highlite a paragraph and having that highlite saved as part of the book for future reference?<<

Yes and no (I do the same). You can "highlight" but that amounts to marking off a rectangular region - no color. The good news however is that the region you marked off shows up in your clippings and is very easy to go from one to the next, to see them together, to use them, find them etc.

>>c) Can you print any part of the book?

Not directly, but i wonder if you could mark off a section, then access it on your computer to print it. I bet you could but I'd have to check.

-j

re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

BenHayat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:50:28 GMT

Jesse, couple of questions on Kindle:

a) I mostly read computer books, what about all these computer books coming out? I have not seen any of these books being offered on Kindle or maybe I missed it.

b) With regular books, I also like to use highlighter, and highlite an area that is important. Some are in yellow, or red or blue, depending on the importance. Is there a way to highlite a paragraph and having that highlite saved as part of the book for future reference?

c) Can you print any part of the book?

Thanks

..Ben

re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

Alex Horovitz — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:39:19 GMT

Aren't you glad I told you to get a Kindle?

re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

wisecarver — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:24:42 GMT

I simply can not thank you enough for sharing this Jesse. Honestly.

You're one of the Greats currently at Microsoft and many of us here in the community are behind you, and Microsoft, 100%!

Salute,

Mark

PS - When you need any custom graphics give us a shout-out.

re: A note on reading, technology and mental illness

wireplay — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:51:57 GMT

Funny. I was just talking to my wfe regarding my kids' school. They still use index cards and require 3 books minimum on research for the 3rd grade. I remarked how backwards this all is and that they need to move forward in teaching styles and processes.

Thanks for a great article. I will have my wife read it and absorb why this technology stuff needs to be taught NOW since these little guys will be using this all now or soon.