Long Time No Me

I'm finally reaching a conclusion on the great Kindle experiment. It's the perfect medium for ephemera. It's ideal for travel. It works well for books that you never want to revisit. But it's a poor substitute for a bookshelf full of books.

Maybe this partially explains why I'm not terribly upset by the failure of the great Kobo experiment. Hoping to spread the eBook reader wealth around a bit, my sister and I bought the Borders version, the Kobo, for our father for a Father's Day gift. Yesterday, my father and I took it back. It was a major disappointment.

We didn't tell the grumpy Borders clerk that my dad has already snagged himself a cheap Kindle instead.