http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660I have no experience with Kindle, but ironically Amazon has the exact feature you describe in their standard interface and I love them for it. I have a few dozen things in my "saved for later" part of the cart, that I pick and choose from gradually. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment14http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment14Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:26:20 GMTHaha... if you can't remember the name of 80 books, how on earth are you going to remember their contents? :) http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment13http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment13Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:31:19 GMTChris, I might remember a book or two, but I can't remember 80 of them. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment12http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment12Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:28:54 GMTThis looks to my like an example where people are delegating responsibility for everything to computers. What ever happened to remembering things? The more we hand over to computers, the less we seem to be able to cope with as a society. Look at all those idiots who drive into lakes because their GPS told them to (I know one personally). How many of us have had their ability to spell reduced because of over reliance upon spell-checkers? So sometimes it's better if computers don't do things for us. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment11http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment11Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:26:28 GMTKindle books have had full wishlist access for about 2 days now. [nozama.typepad.com/.../make-a-wish.html](http://nozama.typepad.com/amazon_blogs/2009/12/make-a-wish.html)http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment10http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment10Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:14:55 GMTI agree completely. I've also had this trouble with amazon video on demand. I go looking for something to watch, find 10 things, buy the top 1, and then lose the other 9. Next time I want something to watch, I have to start over from scratch, and their store really isn't that good and filtering towards things I want to see. +1 vote for Queues. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment9http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment9Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:21:12 GMTJD, That assumes that I use the device, I am not in US, so I am using the website exclusively. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment8http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment8Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:13:44 GMTThe most simple solution I can think of is to create a WishList on Amazon and simply lookup the non-Kindle version of the book you are interested in and add it to the WishList. Not convenient, but hey, at least you have the ISBD etc. available to you and all the software you need to track everything in one place. In other words, it's the path of least resistance. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment7http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment7Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:08 GMTDevelopers often don't think the same way the "average" customer thinks, which is why design decisions should rarely be left to developers. This to me sounds like one of those situations the reason being is that the percentage of customers who really want this (to an extent that they'd refuse to use the service otherwise) is probably incredibly small. That doesn't make it a bad idea, but I think the large majority of customers are satisified with "Wish Lists" (or differently named but similar features). http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment6http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment6Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:23:57 GMTIt's not the same as a true Amazon wishlist, but the Kindle *does* have a "Save for Later" option. Unfortunately, it's only accessible on the device. When you're on the details page for a book in the Kindle store, there's a "Save for Later" option on the menu. When you're on the main store page, the menu contains an option for viewing those saved items. I wish it were a full Amazon wishlist that could be managed from both the device and the web site, and all you can do with items there is add and delete (no grouping/sorting/prioritizing)... but it's better than having to track a separate list away from the device. Note: I've got a first-gen Kindle... but I assume that feature's there in Kindle 2 as well. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment5http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment5Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:17:27 GMTYou can use amazons universal feature for tracking other sites againt amazon itself. That would be a way to add the unaddable to you wish list. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment4http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment4Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:53:02 GMTMany sites do have wishlists. Or are you talking about providing something that will provide a wishlist aggregator across sites? Might be an interesting project actually. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment3http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment3Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:47:36 GMTMaybe you could download free samples as a substitute. Install Kindle for PC and have the samples downloaded there. That way you will have the list of "future reads". But I see your point... http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment2http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment2Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:47:05 GMTYup. iTunes is -especially- bad at this. They have a wishlist of sorts, but it's crap, and I can't put pre-release stuff in it. bah. http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment1http://ayende.com/4317/if-you-want-me-to-buy-something-i-want-a-queue-damn-it#comment1Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:30:46 GMT