Christmas shopping 101
"The bookworm edition"
C'mon, everyone has a bookworm on their list. Book worms are pretty much notoriously the single most easy person to buy anything for EVER. This is largely due to the fact that there are a ton of books out there and the average bookworm likes to read. A lot. One time, at band track and field camp, the bookworm may or may not have been told by all her friends to get a life and stop reading, or they would evict her from the room. The bookworm may or may not have been evicted subsequently due to continued reading because hey, who wants to have a life when one can have many different, readily available ones?
Now, in this day and age, and depending on how much you love that bookworm on your list, you have the ability to make their life a zillion times better. How? you may ask.
KINDLE is your answer. Once upon a time this summer my brother had the ingenious idea to buy me a Kindle for my birthday. My brother has given me books for years and giving me a Kindle this summer not only made my life easier and my back happier, it will also make Christmas exciting because what is he going to get me now he can't get me a book?
Anyways: For years I have frowned upon eReaders. For years I've enjoyed the sound of book pages being flipped, the smell of new books, old books, library books, etc. For years I've carried three books, a laptop, various cables, a stuffed animal, an iPod, and some magazines on any transatlantic flight. I cannot ever fly with just one book because the mere thought of running out of reading material somewhere over the Atlantic makes me hyperventilate. My heart freezes in fear. I'd probably drown myself in the lavatory.
Cue the Kindle and my subsequent first book-free transatlantic flight:
a) I got to Toronto and for the first time my spine appeared to be okay with standing in line at Immigration while my backpack was on my back.
b) TEN BOOKS! TEN!
I've had the Kindle (the one with the keyboard, the one on which web browsing is "experimental") for six months now and I have nothing bad whatsoever to say about it. Nothing.
It's super easy to use, it turns on fast, and reading on it is like reading a book in which the ink rearranges itself whenever you flip a page. It doesn't get much cooler than that. It just doesn't.
Okay, well, maybe there's one bad thing: Buying books off of Amazon is easy, and it takes one click, and then it's on your Kindle, and while Kindle books generally cost about 50% less than normal books, the ease with which one can buy Kindle books leads to bankruptcy. Swiftly.
BUT: Here's another pro: Books are printed on paper and paper is made from trees so buying a Kindle for that bookworm on your list will save trees.
This bookworm right here couldn't be any happier with her Kindle, and the fact that she can read The Best Lesbian Erotica on a business class flight without anyone being the wiser only adds to the undying Kindle love!
C'mon, everyone has a bookworm on their list. Book worms are pretty much notoriously the single most easy person to buy anything for EVER. This is largely due to the fact that there are a ton of books out there and the average bookworm likes to read. A lot. One time, at band track and field camp, the bookworm may or may not have been told by all her friends to get a life and stop reading, or they would evict her from the room. The bookworm may or may not have been evicted subsequently due to continued reading because hey, who wants to have a life when one can have many different, readily available ones?
Now, in this day and age, and depending on how much you love that bookworm on your list, you have the ability to make their life a zillion times better. How? you may ask.
KINDLE is your answer. Once upon a time this summer my brother had the ingenious idea to buy me a Kindle for my birthday. My brother has given me books for years and giving me a Kindle this summer not only made my life easier and my back happier, it will also make Christmas exciting because what is he going to get me now he can't get me a book?
Anyways: For years I have frowned upon eReaders. For years I've enjoyed the sound of book pages being flipped, the smell of new books, old books, library books, etc. For years I've carried three books, a laptop, various cables, a stuffed animal, an iPod, and some magazines on any transatlantic flight. I cannot ever fly with just one book because the mere thought of running out of reading material somewhere over the Atlantic makes me hyperventilate. My heart freezes in fear. I'd probably drown myself in the lavatory.
Cue the Kindle and my subsequent first book-free transatlantic flight:
a) I got to Toronto and for the first time my spine appeared to be okay with standing in line at Immigration while my backpack was on my back.
b) TEN BOOKS! TEN!
I've had the Kindle (the one with the keyboard, the one on which web browsing is "experimental") for six months now and I have nothing bad whatsoever to say about it. Nothing.
It's super easy to use, it turns on fast, and reading on it is like reading a book in which the ink rearranges itself whenever you flip a page. It doesn't get much cooler than that. It just doesn't.
Okay, well, maybe there's one bad thing: Buying books off of Amazon is easy, and it takes one click, and then it's on your Kindle, and while Kindle books generally cost about 50% less than normal books, the ease with which one can buy Kindle books leads to bankruptcy. Swiftly.
BUT: Here's another pro: Books are printed on paper and paper is made from trees so buying a Kindle for that bookworm on your list will save trees.
This bookworm right here couldn't be any happier with her Kindle, and the fact that she can read The Best Lesbian Erotica on a business class flight without anyone being the wiser only adds to the undying Kindle love!