A bookworm and book lover ever since I can remember, I never thought I’d be saying this, but I recently bought the new Kindle DX (9.7″ display) and absolutely love it! In the picture to the right, I downloaded 2 books while I was waiting to board a plane at the Penticton airport.
Watching Ed use his Kindle finally convinced me of its benefits, particularly that of trying to preserve my remaining eyesight. (See the contraption I had to wear just to do a jigsaw puzzle?)
Here are some of the benefits of using a Kindle:
Easy to read
Font sizes are adjustable
Saves paper
Saves space, easy to carry a LOT of books (up to 3500)
Super easy to get books almost anywhere quickly (you don’t need a computer to browse for and buy books)
Kindle ebooks are inexpensive – only $9.99
Wondering what “zabaglione” means? There’s a dictionary included
Some digital ebooks are available before the print versions come out
You can download book samples
You can archive books bought on Amazon and retrieve them anytime you want
You can load your own documents
Some books are available in text to speech
That last feature will probably prove mighty worthwhile down the road.
In the meantime, I’ll enjoy using the adjustable font size feature and NOT having to wear my reading glasses!
Oh ya, I sprung for the “official” Amazon Kindle DX Leather Cover which cost 50 bucks. The ever the more practical (and cheap) Ed, picked up an equally good cover for his Kindle on eBay for only $20.00.
Oh and by the way, I’m not sure if the “Super easy to get books almost anywhere quickly” benefit above is really a benefit — I’m buying books every time I sit down and turn my Kindle on. A benefit to Amazon to be sure, but you could get seriously carried away in a hurry with these things.
I took a short video during Jeremy Palmer’s and my presentation about video marketing here at Affiliate Summit West 2010 — or at least I thought I had!
Apparently, one must press ‘Record’ first.
UGH!
Especially considering we had such a GREAT audience that was also in the video waving for those of you who couldn’t make it to the event.
So there’s an additional tip for those of you who attended — remember to press “Record”.
I know it’s not much consolation for those whom I promised would see their happy smiling faces here, but here’s the pic of Jeremy and I that was taken directly after the event.
Thanks kindly to all the Tweeters who showed their appreciation for the information we shared.
Here are a few pictures taken of the people I met during my walk up to and at the Meet Market.
Stay tuned for more posts from Affiliate Summit West 2010. I’m just about to head down to the Canadian Affiliate meetup where there’s sure to be beer.
No doubt your thoughts and prayers have been with the people of Haiti since the devastating earthquake there on January 12th.
Stick with the prayers to be sure, but I hope you’ll direct your thoughts towards helping in a material way. Charitable organizations need money to help the Haitian people now.
Personally, I’m a big fan of the Red Cross. Here are 5 ways to donate to the Red Cross.
You can make a donation by calling 1-800-REDCROSS.
You can make a $10 donation by texting “Haiti” to 90999. this is an effort backed by the U.S. State Department. Funds will go to support American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. $800,000+ has already been raised in this manner.
You can set up monthly donation withdrawals (as I did years ago) through your credit card. (Call 1-800-REDCROSS.)
Make a purchase through the Red Cross Store, i.e. get an emergency preparedness kit.
Or, buy the Super Affiliate Handbookon January 15th. I will match and then donate all proceeds from those sales to the Red Cross.
When it comes to acting on my own behalf in terms of being active everyday, well… let’s just say that I subscribe to Newton’s First Law of Motion which states that “a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it“.
The first thing I do when I get up in the morning after making myself a coffee, is head to my office to start work.
Because there are always a million things to accomplish, it’s hard to tear myself away from the computer most days, despite the fact that I know I MUST – especially at the ripe old age of 50 when things start to go south at lightning speed.
In other words, I know that I don’t excel at being accountable to myself.
On the other hand, I DO excel at being accountable to others.
So, when my friend Martin called this afternoon to say that he couldn’t get home over lunch to take his dog for a walk and ask whether I could do it, I was positively thrilled.
“NO problem, I’m happy to do it“, I assured him honestly.
It then occurred to me that I should just agree to walk Chinook (pictured above right) every day while Martin is at work.
Action guaranteed.
If you’re like me when it comes to taking action – where being accountable to someone else spurs you on – think about using that tactic in your Internet business when you find it hard to get started on a particular aspect that you’re not too keen on.
For example, if you hesitate to produce that weekly newsletter, make a promise to your readers by proclaiming “Weekly Tips” or “Tuesday Tips” over the signup form.
Once you’ve made the “promise” you’ll find it hard not to fulfill it.
It was early Sunday afternoon, and I was in the midst of an intense content-producing session for AffiliateBloggerPro when my monitor suddenly just went black.
You can imagine the immediate and intense fear that races through an internet marketer’s heart during such an occurrence.
Always hoping for the best (in this case that it was a temporary monitor glitch), I simply turned the monitor off and then on.
Eureka!
It came back… for about a second.
Fortunately, Ed runs a 2-monitor setup, so I claimed one of his to test my own. Plugged in in and Eureka! again.
It worked.
So, why did I cheer?
Well, first of all, the fix couldn’t have been easier, unlike a hard-drive crash or other catastrophic event. I just had to go into town and grab another.
Secondly, the old monitor was a 19″ Samsung that wasn’t working as well for me as when I bought it 6 years ago. OK, not that IT wasn’t working — my eyes aren’t working as well. See proof here.
Because I’m not a wasteful person, I would have worked with that monitor until it died, glasses and all. OK, NOT the headgear in that other post, but regular reading glasses.
So now I have a lovely BRIGHT 24″ Acer monitor that I can actually see without glasses.
Hurray!
Not so much Hurray at the fact that I could have purchased it cheaper on Amazon, but that’s the price we pay for small town living…. gladly.
A bookworm and book lover ever since I can remember, I never thought I’d be saying this, but I recently bought the new Kindle DX (9.7″ display) and absolutely love it! In the picture to the right, I downloaded 2 books while I was waiting to board a plane at the Penticton airport.
When it comes to acting on my own behalf in terms of being active everyday, well… let’s just say that I subscribe to Newton’s First Law of Motion which states that “a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it“.
