Jorge Quinteros

Being a great writer is an enviable trait and when it comes to the web, coming across context that communicates a well composed story, opinion, argument, or reflection that you can relate to is an appreciable experience that you hope to encounter regularly.

I often read amazing articles and blog post online that I quickly bookmark with hope to re-read, share or abstract inspiration from later on. Another alternative to this process would be Emmet’s route, where he selected articles he had saved to Instapaper with the intention to “read later” but instead opted to convert them into a “PDF, uploaded it to Lulu.com, and ordered a single book.”

The final product is a compendium of fine writing that you can easily snap up from the coffee table and enjoy to a warm cup of Joe on a Sunday morning. The process is said to run you about $10 and it seems well worth the investment to me.

If you’re one of the many average consumers that has toyed with the notion of owning a Kindle, you’re more than likely in the majority group, where you find yourself trying to make sense of how this new technology will make your life better and in return make you forget about the price-tag. Jason Perlow from ZDnet.com presents a compelling article on the Kindlenomics of potentially owning the device:

So it would seem that unless the convenience factor of the Kindle currently outweighs its costs, the Kindle is not a huge value proposition for your average consumer today. But if its cost were to drop approximately in half – say, between the 3 and 4 book per month level — at around $200 per unit – then we might start seeing greater e-book adoption by a larger segment of the population.

He goes into great detail in how the device is more economically favorable in higher education at the moment and what’s more interesting is that in order for the average reader to “wipe out the cost of the Kindle completely, you would have to buy and read six books per month over the course of one year. Love the device but just not now.

A simple browser bookmarklet that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Customization includes text size, style and margin. Extremely effective and a must have resource.