I got my Amazon Kindle eReader when I landed home from my recent trip out to Oklahoma City, where I had the privilege and honor to speak at the Oklahoma Bar Association.  I enjoyed the trip and meeting awesome people including Jim Calloway, but I was itching to open the box when I got home.

My Kindle review wouldn’t add much except to say it’s as cool as they say it is.  But I did something that has already changed my practice.

First, take a step back.  I’ve got a bunch of bankruptcy books on my shelf, and they take up a lot of room.  Books that I refer to every single week, stuff that’s critical to my base of knowledge.  But I’m not near those books that often.

So I embarked on a massive scanning operation, digitizing all of the massive tomes.  I began with my NCLC bankruptcy manual and moved on from there.  The books went into a big box and got transferred to my closet.

Now that I got my Kindle I wondered if I could copy those books to my new portable reading device.

Yes I could!

So my Kindle now contains my entire bookshelf of professional books as well as the binders of NCLC Reports that I lovingly read on arrival.  No matter where I am, I have with me all of the books that were previously on a bookshelf.