Since the appearance of gadgets in clinical practice the use of ebooks has been exponentially increasing ever after. As doctors and pediatricians found it quite easy to carry around their references and to have their entire library in their pockets.
So then we had the PDA and the SmartPhone and the Small PC roaming around with doctors as they walk into the hospital corridors.
But here’s just another gadget that have started to disseminate everywhere; the Kindle from Amazon.
This device simulates the traditional paper books to a great extent, so you have black and white non lit lines and paragraph that you can read in the sun shine with a size similar to the handbooks we used to carry before the digital era.
For a complete description check out this YouTube Video.
What’s interesting here for us pediatricians is that if you search for pediatric titles in the Kindle books library you will found [as of the date of this post] 385 titles!
This is certainly an evidence that there are people who are using Kindle for their pediatric needs and that publishers are not ignoring this electronic portal at all.
You can find a variety of titles like the Current Diagnosis and Treatment and the Neonatology: Management .. and many other consumer and patient targeted titles.
The platform does not compare to the PDA’s and Smartphones like the iPhone or Palm or Windows Mobiles because this is just an ebook reader so for example you’ll never see Epocrates or Pedisuite on Kindle.
And if you want an ebook reader for your PDA then you have many options like iSilo and Mobipocket readers that are compatible with any OS and they can do exactly the same functions that a Kindle can do and sometimes even better reading experience. Moreover, why should we spend $360 to get an ebook reader? for the same budget we can get the best PDA with web browsing, camera, emails, PIM, and all kinds of third party software and all of these are not available on Kindle.
However the Kindle phenomena will likely to escalate as it provides a convenient way of reading and does not take us away from the traditional tactile papers that we are comfortable with.
Pda4peds will maintain a list of recommended pediatric Kindle titles as judged by its authors and visitors. Have a look at the Kindle Pediatric Titles and tell us if we missed any.
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I should have discovered this great discussion long time ago. Many thanks!
I should have discovered this great discussion long time ago. Many thanks!
[...] there are over 400 pediatric titles in Kindle edition available from Amazon [ compare to this post few weeks ago ] and -of course- these are all can be read on the new iPhone and iPod Touch app. Pda4peds [...]
[...] there are over 400 pediatric titles in Kindle edition available from Amazon [ compare to this post few weeks ago ] and -of course- these are all can be read on the new iPhone and iPod Touch app. Pda4peds [...]
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