In the same way it felt strange to pay quite so much, but I read through the book and enjoyed the experience. Since then, I’ve downloaded a number of samples and a paid for a few more books (Mostly non-fiction, technical books, i.e. Agile Estimating and Planning) . Being on a new project with a few new technologies I’ve starting purchasing a few more PDF versions of technical books through The Pragmatic Press ebook section. I use the PDFs religiously for reference now and transfered a few of them to my phone, after converting them from pdf to epub, and read them in an application called Stanza.

So, I’m doing more reading, less fruitless searching, and my moments where I am waiting are always filled with always something meaningful to learn and enjoy. I actually enjoy the smaller page size of the iPhone and screen light is nice for late nights in the bed.

The very recent price drop has my finger even closer to the checkout. This bit of news of getting PDFs on the Kindle through Savory might have done it.

A friend had stated that she wouldn’t make the move on the Kindle because the lack of the physical representation of the book. Until she felt she had ownership. And I do think that a lot of our ideas of ownership and physical space are going to continue to change. The tangible good is not as important to me as the information.

I recommend more coherent, less colf/flu rambling, talk here at The Technium – Better than owning.