more on Kindle

I have been using for a while (finished reading one Novel).

1. it is good and nice to read a hard-copy. it is quite boring to read the whole world on a slate always. it is obvious that we will get a feel with a new book always.
2. reading news is really a boring thing on Kindle.
3. updated the kindle software, but still not getting the page numbers for kindle based content. (may be, not updated for the novels, i bought).
4. people around me are still thinking that i am holding a gadget. so my wife throws it whenever i am holding it all the time. she doesn't say anything if i hold newspapers, books all the time. (see the real difference).
5. i can not use it anywhere i want (what if it fells down from my hand). but you can read a hard-copy book wherever you want.

so, better buy an ipad kind of a device.

Reactive

Some times I used to watch people's behavior crossing the roads. They walk slowly with great confidence in them. Like, "the driver will be killed if I am hit". isn't it funny.

/Srinivas

Stirrer

I surprised my wife with a gift. She is also very much surprised after looking at. (she thought it must be some kind of gold jewelery).

I presented a plastic stirrer (during flight journey I was served a drink with a stirrer). I kept it in my pocket without throwing it into the dustbin.

Whenever I go to hotel with my wife, she always asks me to steal the stirrer served with the drink. I have no courage to do that simple stupid thing for my wife.

Kindle wifi

This month, I bought one gadget Amazon KINDLE wi-fi. Few things I wanted to put here straightly,
1. Buying books and the Kindle content is very tempting.
2. KINDLE content is very costly for Indian customers. We can get almost 5 news papers (hard-copy, 500 INR) for the one KINDLE e-news paper. And BTW, only few Indian news papers are available in KINDLE version.
3. It is meant for KINDLE content, I can say the best for reading kindle books.
4. The experimental browser should be good for at least micro-blogging. The browser should be rich, so not at all good for reading the content.
5. -- I wish it can be a quick-note taking application, an organizer in future versions of KINDLE.

Will post more on this, as I am still exploring with it.

/Srinivas

Waiting List -> Confirmation??

Usually, I never rush to book tickets (even if available) for holiday trips. So this time for coming Ugadi (March 16th), I have booked a train ticket well before for 3A . But no luck, waiting list.

The problem is there is only one suitable train goes from Bangalore to Vijayawada (Howrah- Yeswantpur), which takes around 12-13 hours night journey. It's a comfortable coach if you are lucky enough to get tickets.

Since my 3A ticket is in WL, I have booked TATKAL ticket for the same date. I always fail to book a confirm TATKAL ticket. Again Tatkal WL. So, from the past two days, for every one hour I am checking the chances of confirmation for both the tickets. Another interesting thing is my wife gave one confirm ticket of his colleague. But I am very much scared to go with this ticket.

The fact is like me many people might have booked several tickets for the same train. On top of that they will book bus tickets if the chances are very less for train ticket. Because, WL tickets including TATKAL tickets will be automatically cancelled (IRCTC e-ticket) and remitted to their account if not confirmed.

Last time, I have booked one train ticket (WL) and a bus ticket. Thinking that WL ticket will be automatically cancelled I decided to board the bus. Just before boarding the bus, I called my friend to confirm the status. Unfortunately, the ticket got confirmed. But I couldn't do much at that point. Because of so much uncertainty (may be because of bad-planning, demand) people book several tickets for the same journey. This causes very much inconvenience and trouble to a common passenger. Because of this travel services are making so much money. For a sleeper class ticket train fare is around 280/- and for the same VOLVO ticket costs more than 1200/- .

Anyway, my wait is going to be over by tomorrow.

/Srinivas