After downloading Ur by Stephen King to my iPhone using the Amazon Kindle app I really had to wonder how fast technology is going. It is racing ahead of us and with the Apple iPad coming out soon to the UK I have to realize that I simply can’t afford to keep up with it. I’ve been tempted by the Amazon Kindle but having to order it from the US site and still having to browse an American catalogue puts me off. Why should I have to see everything in dollars? It just feels wrong. So I’ve yet to jump into the e-reader Market but a lot of people have and one of those people is, apparently, Stephen King, a man who always seems to be willing to try out the newest things especially in writing. He made available a story that you could only read through the Amazon Kindle, a story about an Amazon Kindle that arrives on the doorstep of a man who quickly realises that this is not the normal Kindle at all but just some kind of weird inter-dimensional creature of a Kindle. It gives access to books written by authors who may have died but in another dimension they have kept on writing. This Kindle gives access to those books.
It’s an interesting story and I could just hear King’s mind going around and around imagining stories that Hemingway and Shakespeare may have written if they had lived for years to come. I don’t know how it is to read on a Kindle itself but on my rather small iPhone screen it was surprisingly good and easy to read, which I didn’t expect. Well worth checking out.
