Some time back I purchased a 1st generation Amazon Kindle. I really liked it. While I owned it I bought 5 Cisco Press books, including Network Security Principles and Practices. There was some talk about Internetwork Expert releasing their workbooks for the kindle, and I actually had some email correspondence where I was told I could be a beta tester. Well that never happened, and although IE announced that the kindle version was coming soon I think they kinda just dropped the thought and changed directions. It probably had something to do with how difficult Amazon makes it to add items to their store.

At any rate, I sold my kindle in leu of an iphone. I love what the iphone can do, and have the “safari bookbag” from ciscopress on there so I can read my safari books. Well, yesterday I received the icing for my cake, that is, the Kindle App for the iphone. The App is free and once installed it allowed me to sync up all the books I purchased when I owned the kindle. It is really easy to read, and remembered what page I was on in all my books. Amazon also has what they call “whispersync” that will sync the iphone app to the kindle if you have both.

Now if IPexpert were to put their workbooks on a kindle, or better yet on an iphone, I would have it all! I’d rather carry the phone or a kindle with me when I travel versus a ton of workbooks! I say IPexpert because I have decided that I like their style and they are pretty much my vendor of choice now. Sorry IE, but I still think highly of you.

Well I MUST get back to my labs. Time is closing in on me….