Kindle

My recent new toy is Kindle.

I bought it on-line as a bargain item. Although I am slightly uneasy with virtual bookstore and a paperless system (for example, see http://ccszeto.blogspot.com/2011/10/choice.html), there is an objective need for me to have an electronic reader. It goes like this:

Since our wards moved to the new hospital block last year, it becomes quite a nuisance to people like me who have our office staying in the old block. (The root of the problem is, of course, when the new block was designed by some extra-terrestrials, no office space was planned for academic staff.) Although it takes no more than 5 or 7 minutes to walk from our own office to the ward, it becomes neither here nor there when we have, say, 15 minutes of spare time in the ward (for example, after the morning round but before a bedside teaching).

For that reason, many of us bought iPad in the past one year. Well, after reading Tim Ferriss, I am not fond of checking emails all the time, but it seems a good idea to have some documents or journal articles at hand.

PS. Another brilliant design of the new hospital block is that the largest blind spot for mobile phone connection is the lift lobby - exactly the place where you need a mobile.