Denver CO, Feb. 5, 2009: DeLancey Nicoll, who is scheduled to graduate from Hartwick College in May, 2010, is the featured interview guest in today’s episode of The Kindle Chronicles, a widely followed weekly audio podcast about Amazon’s eReader, the Kindle.

Nicoll described the advantages of taking his Kindle to Jamaica for Hartwick’s month-long transcultural nursing program. “We only had so much that we could bring down, and I feel like I saved the most space of anybody by just having my Kindle instead of bringing books and articles,” Nicoll told podcast host Len Edgerly.

A 2006 graduate of Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine, Nicoll was accepted to Hartwick by early decision and received a Samuel Nelson Scholarship for academic achievement. He is majoring in nursing and hopes to spend next January at the University of Basel Hospital and the Institute for Nursing Science in Basel, Switzerland.

The Art of Being a Good Podcast Guest

Edgerly, a retired journalist who has been podcasting for two years, said Nicoll was an effective guest for his show, because of the Hartwick student’s natural informality and clarity. “Not everyone makes a great podcast guest,” Edgerly said. “Lance Nicoll is the youngest person I’ve had on the show, and he did an excellent job describing how he used the Kindle in an intriguing setting.”

The interview is part of Episode 29 of The Kindle Chronicles. It can be heard on the Internet at http://TheKindleChronicles.com . The weekly podcast is also listed at the iTunes Directory for free subscriptions.

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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.