Last Night a Kindle Saved my Life

by Ryan Hinricher on July 23, 2009

So there I was at the Germantown Court arriving at 6pm for the 6:30 appointed court time.   See I really wasn’t in trouble.  I was standing in for a good friend of mine, Manish.  But he wasn’t in trouble either.  He simply came to Memphis on a business trip to do his taxes a couple months ago.  I loaned him my VW Jetta which is garaged more often than not as it is a car that is worth more to me then the couple thousand I’d ge selling it.   It’s a spare.  However a year back when I purchased a new vehicle I simply forgot to renew the tags on the VW.

Fast forward to 2 months back.   Manish drives the car to an appointment and gets pulled over for expired tags.  They give Manish a ticket of which he passes to me to stand in for him at court.   I arrived at 6pm.  I was home at 10pm.   Thankfully I had my new Kindle with me.  The excruciating pain of waiting in line had been turned into a wonderful journey with Chris Anderson’s  ”Free”.   So I was able to crunch an incredible amount of info and not let the city of Germantown’s inefficiencies waste the precious minutes of my life.

I could have just had the book you might add…true, but only sort of.  About once an hour I’d take a short break and read blogs that I had subscribed to or bounce over to a PDF market study that I’ve been reading on the Manhattan rental market.   This would have taken many more atoms than my arms could have held.

I won’t bore you with the details of the outcome of the court issues but let’s just say that they wasted a lot of people’s time…but not mine.  Cheers Amazon!  Everything about the Kindle is right.

Kindle: Amazon’s 6″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

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