Kindle offered during your stay at the Algonquin Hotel? Yes Sirree!

Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel has a long tradition of nurturing the literary-minded -- Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, even Harpo Marx hung out there in its heyday. Keeping up with the times, the folks running the Algonquin today apparently still have literature on their minds, and are offering Amazon's Kindle pre-loaded with a book of their choice for guests of the hotel during their stay. If they don't have all seven volumes of À la recherche du temps perdu loaded up and ready for us when we get there we're totally heading to the Holiday Inn.

[Via Kindle Boards]

[sloan2s @ Dec 9th 2008 2:34PM]

Hmm seems like the people staying here would either 1) have their own already or 2) not want to recieve a used kindle to read

[Anthony @ Dec 9th 2008 3:35PM]

I'll be having Jeeves hold mine while I read (The Pet Goat- fascinating). To hold one's own electronics is surely a sign of the lower class encroaching on the well being of society.

Jeeves Sadlymcgee

pp Mr Importanté Fellowe

[StalematE @ Dec 9th 2008 2:44PM]

If I had the money to stay there, I'd just pay someone to read it FOR me.

[Ad-man @ Dec 9th 2008 2:47PM]

Am I the only one who assumed this was GTA4 related before actually R-ingTFA?

As to save some posting time:

Yes

[kastonie @ Dec 9th 2008 2:49PM]

yea my first thought was gta also....

[jbhitter24 @ Dec 9th 2008 2:48PM]

that actually just had something about the alqonquin on the history channel this morning.

[username @ Dec 9th 2008 2:49PM]

when i first saw this picture i though the dude on the left was wearing that lampshade

[nick @ Dec 9th 2008 2:58PM]

That dude's a chick. And she's sitting on the right side, not the left.

[Abuzar Baloach @ Dec 9th 2008 3:06PM]

Nick, look again.

[nick @ Dec 9th 2008 3:28PM]

forgot to add, /s

[cheeze @ Dec 9th 2008 7:12PM]

just to clarify:

/s means sarcasm

[NHAnimator @ Dec 9th 2008 2:54PM]

Waaaaaait just a minute. Something in the photograph shouldn't be there.

Yeah. That's what I thought. That woman's hat is about a decade too early.

Nice try, Engadget.

[Grant @ Dec 9th 2008 2:55PM]

Damn! I stayed at the Algonquin last night and all I had was this stinkin' paper book.

[haX0r @ Dec 9th 2008 3:04PM]

Does that mean they are going to put a Kindle in the fire?

[zorg @ Dec 9th 2008 3:30PM]

This picture contains only two of the Algonquin heavyweights: Dorothy Parker and James Thurber (standing behind her). If you really cared, Engadget, you would find one with George S. Kaufmann, Alexander Woolcott, Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber, Marc Conelly, and Robert Sherwood as well. Or photoshop them in.

[Leo Klein @ Dec 9th 2008 5:41PM]

I'd have gone for an HP Mini 1000 -- they're just about the same price.

[Mona @ Dec 11th 2008 1:49AM]

"I'd have gone for an HP Mini 1000" The electronic ink in the Kindle is much easier to read for long periods of time.

[Bhowdy @ Dec 9th 2008 6:24PM]

"hey day"?

Sheesh.

[CaliRed @ Dec 9th 2008 7:08PM]

What is wrong with just plain old fashioned books?
I mean Kindle is great if you can read things that small
but I happen to like the feel of a book in my hands.

[drewdoog @ Dec 9th 2008 10:55PM]

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z189/drew00629/algonquinroundtable12-8.jpg
heres what they are thinking during this picture.

[fredvg @ Dec 10th 2008 10:18AM]

next up: Guitar Hero offered at the Chelsea Hotel

[Eric @ Dec 10th 2008 10:24AM]

Last time I stayed at the Algonquin (and I plan to stay there next time I'm in town) I couldn't get a decent Wifi signal in my room. Unlike in Mumbai India or Nairobi Kenya or Rio or Bogotá. Though I will admit the signal was better than the dialup in Zanzibar, which was spotty. So I guess that explains why they want to hand out a device that works with Sprint's cellular network? :-P

The bar was a better place to hang out anyway. The girl-watching was spectacular.

[Sarah Haman @ Dec 11th 2008 3:30PM]

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