Virginia Hefferman writes a paean to her Kindle in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine Section, describing the epiphany she had when she used Amazon’s e-reading device on an airplane. It certainly wasn’t the Kindle’s technical features that won her over – indeed, she writes, “As an electronic device, it should be said, the Kindle is a complete bust.” She cites such design issues as, “…the bumpable buttons that constantly flip your pages and lose your place, the pointy and cruel keyboard that is stiff and ineffective, the lily-white casing that is ugly when new and dingy and gross when used.”

What was it, then, that made her fall in love with her Kindle? True book lovers will immediately identify with her experience. Read here.

RC