Kindle Your Caribbean Vacation with Wireless Reading Devices
I often wonder how people got along before inventing spectacles, glasses, reading glasses, and even binoculars. You probably take for granted the sunglasses that shield your eyes from the sun during your caribbean vacation.
Today you hear so many concerns about overexposing your skin and eyes to the sun that you would be better off staying in the shade for most of your life. Of course, other people have suggested the sun provides natural vitamins for your health and well-being.
You cannot dismiss these arguments without proper thought, but the main point here is that over the past hundred years we have seen many gadgets and devices that make our lives more comfortable and convenient.
Glasses make us see up close or at long distances birds and other wildlife that live in tropical terrain like St. Lucia’s tropical island rain forest. Binoculars give us that close feeling with the object in our sight. Imagine how difficult it would be to get close to a blue iguana or a scampering agouti in the forests of Trinidad and Tobago. And, of course, deep-sea diving enthusiasts know how important goggles are to staying alive underwater in the Bahamas or in Belize. Also, many vacationers use goggles while swimming in the freshwater pools on the islands to protect their eyes from chlorine.
You can name many more gadgets and devices which make a quick getaway to the Caribbean delightful. But one device in particular has been making the rounds and opening a whole new way of how we get information. Most of us have seen the audio boxes that deliver loud and sometimes grating sounds on the beach. We also use CDs, mp3s, ipods, smartphones, to receive information while we bask in the drenching sunlight.
While holiday goers enjoy these inventions, a wide gap did exist for bookworms and multitaskers. If you had to enjoy a good book on the beautiful Grand Anse beach in Grenada, you had to pack it with several other travel items. If you wanted to read more than one book, this proved challenging especially with airlines limiting the pieces of luggage you can fly with.
Well, Amazon.com solved this problem by introducing the Kindle more than a year ago. The Kindle 2 is its new release of wireless reading devices that lets you store over 1,500 books for your reading pleasure. This device is as slim as an empty wallet and light as a paperback. It comes with a wireless feature that allows you to read magazines, newspapers, and blogs as you sip a glass of orange juice on the sand.
You can read on the sandy beaches or you can take your Kindle to your room at the all-inclusive beach resort. You don’t need a PC or untidy cables to get in the way of enjoying your favorite books and periodicals.
I like the Kindle because it is portable. At home, I regularly use Text-to-Speech software to get most of my reading done on the computer. But I can’t lug the PC with me on a plane. Imagine the scene at the airport when the TSA security personnel see me approaching their station with a strange device. Of course, I can travel with a laptop, but I can only use it in the hotel room, but can’t use it on the sandy beaches.