I just read a recommendation from Fred Wilson for a book called Product Design for the Web. I’m hitting a lot of walls in developing UI and flows for a couple of projects that I’m thinking about - Napkin and How a Car Works. It’s hard not to just fall down the same REST trap all the time.

I can’t decide whether to get the Kindle or the paperback. I can have the Kindle version instantly, and it’s about half the price. But there’s something nice about having a physical book: To read, to be seen to read (“Are you a developer?”), to share or give away, and to glimpse on a shelf for as long I keep it.

Fiction goes perfectly on the Kindle - ultimately just words, and certainly only going to be read once. But for non-fiction, and particularly anything with illustrations or code, the Kindle just doesn’t display nicely. I feel like the Kindle is a little too sterile - but then it seems counterintuitive that fiction seems to suit that sterile setting perfectly.

My gut feeling is to get the paperback, but I’m going to try the kindle format and see whether eBook design has moved on from when I last tried.