We know Oprah loves books. The written word is one of her best friends and the only one she can't give jewelry measured in carats. But books now can be a
high tech accoutrement that blinks, beeps and whirls through a slew of books at her command. Oprah has fallen in love with the Kindle. She is right about Barack Obama, but
I love written works where pages ruffle in the breeze and the heft provides a certain creature comfort. An ebook, blech. What's wrong with her?
"I'm telling you, it is absolutely my new favorite thing in the world," she said in the post, which notes that she first received the Kindle this past summer.
Oprah also gave away a Kindle to everyone in her audience on Friday, which oddly enough, caused one woman in the crowd to tear up.
"There are not any keys in there," Oprah said telling them to look in a box under their seats. "But something equally as good."
She can afford to leave the thing on her personal plane or in a hotel suite. But the longer a poor person invests in Kindle, then pays the fee and downloads electronic version of whatever catches their fancy, the thing becomes even more valuable. Losing it, smashing it or dropping it in the tub is the actuality of watching hard earned
money go down the drain. At what point would therapy be needed when the Kindle goes on the blink. An iPod cost a fair bit and the songs et al are package priced. Each
electronic book averages about $10. It's a bit like buying a cheapy printer and then paying more for the ink cartridges. Cool strategic
mouse booktrap, if one can make it work. But hey, its one of Oprah's new favorite things. If so compelled to be Oprah-hip,
click here to happily fork over the first $350, but don't stop there get her recommended Oprah Book Club
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. Lady O may need to work on a label issue there because that's a mouthful of a sticky label to get on a download.
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