Who Needs a Kindle?
Amazon.com recently unveiled the Kindle, a “wireless portable reading device” that can store up to 200 books, weighs only 10.3 ounces, and combines your love of reading with your even bigger love of putting your book down so it can recharge for three hours.
We here at Cracked were curious when we first read about the Kindle. “What kind of person would actually need 200 books on them at any one time?”
Then, we stumbled upon this ad. Now we know exactly what kind of person the Kindle was designed for…
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Tags: amazon, book, cracked, ebooks, Kindle, parody, reading
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
funny, but i have a …
funny, but i have a k2 and its awesome
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
ok i think that is …
ok i think that is what i will get then
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
@sofaithfull Just …
@sofaithfull Just finished first book on K2. Very happy with it. The look is amazing and I’ve loaded up various PDFs of owners manuals and such. Very handy. Don’t have anything to compare it with, but I’m hooked.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
i am deciding which …
i am deciding which e book is for me. i cant decide because they all look spectacular and are mostly all around the same price. right now i am looking at the kindle 2 and the COOL-ER i love the cool-er because most of the books on their store are free and because it comes in different colors, but love the kindle 2 for its read aloud feature and its web browsing
please help me, i just want the best e book, any advice???????
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Hello,I am …
Hello,I am interested in e-books and I was wondering as to what is the the best e-book. I am hovering between getting the kindle 2, kindle dx and the nook. I like the large screan size of the kindle dx,but its quite pricey. I also like the fact that the nook has a much larger library than amazon’s kindle. I also like the idea that you can lend books for 14 days on the nook,but I really don’t know what is the best e-reader. Please give me your opinion.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
hahahah lmfao
hahahah lmfao
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Well, I do carry …
Well, I do carry more than two books, and I’d like to read some articles without having to print all of them
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I actually carry …
I actually carry three books at a time, not counting school books. My bag gets quite heavy.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I meant “transcribe …
I meant “transcribe audio”
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Turn on the ” …
Turn on the “translate captions” option by clicking on the “cc” button and then hovering over the arrow. LOL!
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Good job portaying …
Good job portaying an egg head, kindle guy.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I would give this …
I would give this comment 10 thumbs up if I could. Thats the whole premise of the Kindle. The fact that you can carry so many books at once. Some people read through books quickly, travel often or read very long books. For those reasons the Kindle is great. You can immediately start reading a new book when you finish one since you have so many in your hand to choose from. It holds your place in all of them and public domain books can be downloaded for free/cheap. You have a dictionary built in
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Why are you angry? …
Why are you angry? It’s not like cell phones are hurting anything.
If you don’t like them, don’t get one and shut up?
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I love this man’s …
I love this man’s embouchure.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Just because YOU …
Just because YOU consider calls from outside the home unnecessary doesn’t mean they are for everyone. Some people actually have to get done that, 30 years ago, they would’ve taken longer to do because they could only accomplish it from the office or at home.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I prefer making …
I prefer making xerox copies of all of my books, always good to have a back up if needed.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Well, what kind of …
Well, what kind of moron DOES need to be able to call someone all the time? Cel phones have not improved communication. most people make dozens of totally unnecessary call each day. “Oh, I just have one for emergencies.” Last time my car broke down, 5 people stopped to offer use of their phones. I guess I really didn’t need one after all.
Yes, the cel phone has “practically become a necessity” …ha!
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I like cracked, but …
I like cracked, but by this logic we don’t need MP3 players right, I mean rarely do you listen to more than an hour of music at a time or portable gaming systems because one game can take 30-40 hours. Yeah you only read one book at a time but for the same weight, and price which would you rather have one book or a small library?
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
not that funny
not that funny
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
So what happens to …
So what happens to all the books you’ve bought and stored on your Kindle when you drop it on the sidewalk and it’s damaged beyond repair? Does Amazon send you a new kindle and let you download all those books again for free?
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
i love my kindle
i love my kindle
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Actually, if you …
Actually, if you look hard enough you could probably find just about every program that ever existed on the internet. For free! I wouldn’t mind having access to free books that could keep for as long as humanity is still around.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
0:01 – 0:02 : no …
0:01 – 0:02 : no we can tell
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Cracked has mocked …
Cracked has mocked the Kindle for being unnecessary, but if you think about it, you could have said the same for cellphones decades ago. “What kind of moron needs to be able to call someone all the time at ANY time?” And yet now it’s practically become a necessity. I could see something similar happening with the Kindle, if the price comes down and they extend the battery life.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
lol, all the …
lol, all the religious books … and richard dawkins lol