Who needs shelves, anyway?

My impression of the Kindle 2 is, uh, impressive.

Hey, look! It's the mini art movie that kickass not-really-trip-hop early nineties phenomenon Portishead:



Yeah, Beth Gibbons is really sad.

I finally got their Roseland NYC concert DVD. Good times.

And I also got the Kindle 2, which makes it all to easy for me to start catching up on my high school reading list once and for all.

I had a bit of a paradigm shift: I can only imagine that this will do to books what the iTunes store did to CDs, and what Netflix is poised to do to DVDs.

While it can't replace having actual books on actual shelves, it does bring the convenience of shopping everywhere with zero additional stuff to carry. So until I throw out my suitcase, the Kindle travels with me.

Nice feature is I can email docs to read on it. The epaper is pretty good, and the form factor is better than a netbook, let alone the iphone screen. I only wonder what the rumored Apple netbook touchscreen will do to this.

We'll see.