His views on "older reading media" — a reference to books — may be a little extreme, but...

...Rick Gekoski's thoughts on how a Kindle transforms your life are spot-on:

I'm a rare book dealer, but since getting an e-reader older reading media seem awkward and cumbersome.

Here's an excerpt from Gekoski's column in a recent issue of The Guardian:

...as I discovered on our way to Heathrow, I had forgotten to take my Kindle. This has never happened to me before, for it is now so essential that I almost buy it a companion ticket. When it became clear, checking my bags for the third time, that I was now Kindle-less, I had a reaction so acute as to qualify, almost, as an anxiety attack. No Kindle? What was I going to do?

Read the article in its entirety here.

And, afterwards, read my post to understand why I am crazy about my Kindle Fire: "The best thing since sliced bread for book-lovers (a Facebook conversation)".

Why the Kindle Fire is the best thing since sliced bread for book-lovers (a Facebook conversation)

Ramesh Prabhu

Friday

What am I reading on my Kindle Fire now?

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  Pritha Ghosh, Sushmita Chatterjee and 5 others like this.
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    Sanhita Ghosh Congrats! Party! :D
    

    Friday at 1:50pm · 
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    Shiv Sujir So you have moved on to the 'e' side.
    

    Friday at 2:22pm ·  ·  1
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    Sharat Sareen is it good to use?? better than ipad for books??
    

    Friday at 4:03pm · 
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    Ramesh Prabhu Well, Sharat, I found the Kindle Fire to be the right size to read books on -- isn't the iPad a tad unwieldy to hold comfortably (like you would hold a book)? As for the reading experience itself, after just a few days of reading books and graphic novels on the Fire, it seems so natural now to turn on the Fire, tap on the image of the work I want to read, and keep tapping pages to move forward or back.
    
    I can choose from a variety of fonts, increase the font size of the text, go to maps (in the book about Cleopatra, for example) and pinch-zoom to view details. And, of course, I can tap on a word to get the definition instantly from the built-in dictionary.
    

    Saturday at 10:52am · 
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    Ramesh Prabhu Also, I can highlight text, add notes, bookmark pages. I think all these conveniences truly add to the pleasure of reading a book on the Fire.
    

    Saturday at 10:53am · 
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    Sharat Sareen Do the eyes get tired after sometime or is it just like reading a book?
    

    Saturday at 11:30am · 
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    Ramesh Prabhu No, not at all, Sharat. I can adjust the brightness to suit the light around me. And I can increase the size of the text to the point where I don't need to wear my reading glasses. Isn't that amazing?
    

    Yesterday at 10:58am · 
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    Ramesh Prabhu If you want to read about how the Kindle Fire stacks up against the iPad, here's an illuminating article from the Wall Street Journal: http://goo.gl/NF9Pd.
    

    Yesterday at 11:01am · 

• Also read: How e-readers will make life easy for us readers

UPDATE (June 26, 2013): The Kindle is now available on Amazon's India store. Here are the reviews, from today's Mint, of the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle FireHD: "Here come the Kindles".