February 6th, 2012 
admin By now you’ve read all about the Kindle 2 and its predecessor. Books are about to be cheap and easy to get wherever you are. Books are, however, cheaper, than if you were to buy a copy of each one. The Intelligent Investor, for example, is about $5 cheaper on Kindle than if you bought the paper back edition. How many books do you read in a year? Dropping the Kindle would be a bad idea. The Kindle does consume energy, but the amount of energy consumed would be far less than buying a book at a store that had been shipped from another location.
Seth Godin has some great ideas about how to increase the value of a Kindle. My favorite is the idea of sharing books. When someone buys a Kindle book, Godin suggests they be able to share it with others. Thanks for reading.
The Real Cost of a Kindle
Some of that might simply be because reading a book and turning the pages is so automatic because that is how I’ve always read a book.
If you want to read a new traditional book you will have to go to the store. If you are fortunate, the time it will take you to go buy a book and start reading it will be less then 45 minutes.
What about the price of the book?
The books for the most part are cheaper on the Kindle then they are when you buy them from the store. The new releases cost 10 dollars compared to 20 dollars and many of the older books cost 3-7 dollars while the same ones in the store cost 5-8 dollars. Where it is more expensive to use the Kindle 2 is the upfront cost of buying the system.