Recently I picked up the Amazon Kindle DX Graphite at the promptings of a friend. I love reading and have broad interests and he suggested that my bookshelves were starting to sag over the weight of my collection. He also pointed out a truism that I knew, but had decided to put to the back of my mind and that was that as I live in a tropical country the life span of my books was much shorter than when I lived in Europe. Now my books were ageing even faster than I, which was quite unnerving. Of course, it was not easy. I have grown up with books and remember the very first ones that I read and then the passion that grew in me for them that led me to devour story after story and enter the realms of legends, myths and history. I also like the way I can flick back to a point in the narrative, which I thought I understood or recheck salient facts that have a bearing on how I see the characters. So, I picked up my friend’s Kindle with some trepidation and felt the weight in my hands. It was heavier than I expected, I suppose because it looked so slim and sleek that I thought it would be lighter, but if compared to a book of the same weight it was not as unwieldy or bulky and I felt a freedom of use that was a pleasant surprise. However, in my case I feel that I need to hold the Kindle with both hands, which means that for comfortable reading I have to find either a desk to prop it up against or sit in such a way that my legs can help me out.
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The turn on turn off mechanism is so clever and I wonder at the mind of the designer. Not too proud of the surface and yet not too little, it slides easily with my finger and to help first time users to find the switch the colour and material is different. Interestingly enough the same movement of the finger will both turn the Amazon Kindle DX Graphite on as well as turn it off, which at first I found confusing. I come from a generation, when switches went one way for on and another way for off. So to find myself in the situation, where the same direction meant two things was off-putting. I still have that question in my mind, when I use the Kindle again after a long lay-off, but now it is just a passing thought.
