The new graphite-colored Kindle DX has a bigger screen (9.7 inches), 50% better contrast, 4GB of storage, 3G wireless network, a battery that goes a week between charges and holds up to 3,500 books. Sure, it costs $359.00, but let’s think about those 3,500 books for a few sentences.
At an average of $10 per book downloaded, that’s $35,000. I’m pausing to wrap my head around that number.
(pause)
So it is possible to be carrying $35 grand worth of reading material in a 1/3 of an inch-thick digital device that snags books anytime from anywhere in the world. Just don’t drop it in the toilet.
If you extrapolate this math farther, reading an average of 12 books a year, that’s 2,916.6 years, or roughly 902 more years ago than when Jesus walked the earth. So yeah, that should be enough reading material.
