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I forsee that right after I’m done reading, I can just save my highlights in Evernote, and I’ll have a digitally searchable copy of everything. Now with Kindle? I have a webpage, in where I can see what I’ve highlighted, write notes, see my own highlights, see other people’s public notes, and lots more. I can highlight bits of writing, which is a lot better than me dog-earing books and sometimes forgetting to come back to snippets. I paid for three books last night and have already made some headway in reading one. Enter my username and password, and I’m off to reading straight on my iPad. Next I proceeded to download the iPad/iPhone application (they’ve made it universal). Now you’ve got me hooked! First I used the Mac application - figuring out though I would not be reading too much on the Mac (I really only read technical books on my laptop, and that is served very nicely from the Safari bookshelf). Lo and behold, I can do one-click purchasing using my Malaysian-issued credit card. This weekend, while sitting down in a hotel in Seoul, I decided to try my luck with the Kindle. But for books? I bought an iBook using my US-based iTunes account, and I read the entire tome from Carr on the flight back. And I do a lot of reading using Instapaper. GoodReader has been my most popular application on the iPad. I had enjoyed reading his previous book, Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, which he at one stage even released as a free PDF. Last week, right before a long flight back from San Francisco to Kuala Lumpur, I decided to purchase: The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a Life Without Reservations by Paul Carr. I never did purchase an iBook or Kindle book until recently. I’ve been reading e-books on the iPad using iBooks (via O’Reilly’s Safari) and also via GoodReader when people release them as PDFs.

I’ve been carrying an iPad since the second day it got released in the United States… That makes me somewhat of an early adopter.