Meanwhile, for the readers in the group: of the best picture nominees, two (Doubt and Frost/Nixon) were adapted from stage plays. The Reader is a Swiss book, originally published in German, and unfortunately, not available in a Kindle edition. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is available for free from Feedbooks. Slumdog Millionaire is based on the book Q & A: A Novel, by Vikas Swarup and is available for the Kindle. Click the cover to the left to download a sample or buy the book from Amazon. What’s your verdict? Is the book better than the movie or vice versa?

KindleBoards continues to gain momentum as a gathering place for Kindle owners, and we are now the largest independent Kindle site.

And this is true by a number of measures. We surpassed 1 million pageviews in each of the past two months, and it looks like February will be even higher. Our forums have 77,000 posts in over 3,000 topics, and as I write this we are preparing to welcome our 2,000th member.

In this past few days of Kindle announcements, we’ve had 21,000 unique visitors. All fifty states were represented, from California with over 3,000 visitors, to Wyoming with 22.

Handling this growth is a welcome challenge for us! We are lucky to have the best moderators in the business, with Verena, Betsy, Ann, Linda, and – of course – Leslie, who ignited this community and set the tone of friendly competence that we try to convey.

But the most credit goes to you – our KindleBoards visitors and members who frequent our site and who contribute to our lively discussions. We appreciate you!

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Lance is a junior at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. He spent the month of January in Jamaica taking a course called “Transcultural Nursing.” As part of the preparation, the students were supposed to print out and bring with them approximately 100 journal articles. Lance decided, instead, to use his Kindle to save paper and weight. It took him about a day to run the articles through Mobipocket Creator (most of them were PDFs) and load them onto his Kindle.

Once in Jamaica, Lance was freed from lugging a huge notebook around — that was the biggest benefit. He did note that it is harder to flip through an article as you would with the paper version. He also wished he learned about the highlighting feature earlier, which he happened to stumble upon near the end of the course.

Visit Kindleboards to read more about his trip and see a few pictures from the island. You can also hear him discuss his trip in more detail, including using a Kindle on the beach, with Len Edgerly on the next installment of The Kindle Chronicles podcast, due to be uploaded on Friday, February 6th.