I've been skeptical of the Amazon Kindle, and so haven't bought one, but did download the Kindle application for my iphone. While I'm not totally convinced about the grey screen of the real Kindle, being able to have entire books show up on your phone instantaneously for $9.99 is totally revolutionary. Just unbelievable.
In the reading queue now is Peter Singer's The Life You can Save, and Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance.
3/19/2009
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Well, except that all you own is a license to the book's contents, so I hope that you like paying a high price for a "book" you can't resell or even give away. I love the free ebooks (and they're easy to access if you use Stanza on your iPhone), but commercial ebooks are inherently evil--an attempt to slap restrictive DRM on all text.
I don't see those as particularly problematic, though. I don't resell books, and if I thought that was important I would just buy the hardcopy. This way I get to pay less for immediate access to up to date, topical, books, which I otherwise would have to go to the bookstore for, pay more for, and then have them sit on my shelves.
I also use Stanza, but I need to be able to read new things that come out too.
Or you could go to the library.
You're not always going to be making biglaw money. Or at least, for your own sake, I hope you're not.
Sarah,
The library is harder than you'd think. NYPL doesn't have a single copy of Douthat's "Privilege" (hey, I don't rubberneck literal car wrecks, I'm allowed rhetorical ones) available for loan.
In any case, if I was short on cash, books are hardly what I'd cut. I doubt I spend any more on books now than when I made 45K as a clerk in Delaware. It's other stuff that would go.
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