Reader or Writer? : Confessions of a Kindle Addict
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Back in February, I got involved in writing reviews for Nocturne Romance Reads. Coincidentally, I got a last minute opportunity to go on Mona's I'm On A Boat MFin' Birthday Cruise. Combining these two reading friendly happenstances with my tax refund and Bam! Kindle for me!
Now, all my past e-reader wishful thinking had centered around a Sony Reader or a Nook because I'm a rebel like that. I didn't want to follow the crowd and get the Kindle! No Way! But. I got an iPod Touch for Mike's birthday last year. In that year, I'd read books from all over the web using every e-reader app known to man. I didn't like the way the Barnes & Noble app wrapped the text. The other readers were hard to get the right format of books. Amazon's Kindle app was made of awesome. I could buy books, read books, get free books all from my little app. I didn't need a Kindle, I had this nifty little app on my iPod. Then the battery started dying halfway through my day of listening to music while I read. Crap.
Still, I couldn't afford a Kindle. They were $200! Then Apple brought out the iPad upgrades and Barnes & Noble dropped their price point for the Nook. Amazon didn't get to own most of the known universe by being the most expensive toy shop on the web. Kindles were now $140. Close to what I considered acceptable for an impulse buy, but not quite there. I didn't NEED a Kindle. I just wanted one.
Thankfully someone did a study that said reading on a backlit display caused insomnia (something I have a lot). Okay, if I want to get to work on time I need to buy a Kindle. Still not a real must have. I have a stack of to be read books as tall as I am. I'll just read paper books before bed. Yeah, right. I haven't read a entire dead tree book since I put that little app on my iPod.
Two days before my cruise, the Federal Government and Best Buy made the decision for me. Best Buy was bundling their Kindle's with a cover up to $50. I was able to justify to my inner budget nazi that I was really only spending $99 on the Kindle. I didn't even make it home before I had it out of the box. Her name is Lucy. She never leaves my side.
I downloaded every free book I wanted. I was like a kid in a candy store with no security cameras and a loose sense of morals. Books books and more books. If I got tired of one or felt like something different, I hit the Home button and picked something else. My carry on for my trip only weighed fifteen pounds including my computer and all my cords! And I never got bored or had to re-read something because all they had in the gift shop was vampires and werewolves. I had a hundred books and no one would see the gaudy covers and assume I live alone surrounded by cats. (I don't live alone surrounded by cats. The kids still live with me. Come back in three years and mock.)
I have become part of the Kindle Kult. I wonder if I can get my blog as a feed....
Back in February, I got involved in writing reviews for Nocturne Romance Reads. Coincidentally, I got a last minute opportunity to go on Mona's I'm On A Boat MFin' Birthday Cruise. Combining these two reading friendly happenstances with my tax refund and Bam! Kindle for me!
Now, all my past e-reader wishful thinking had centered around a Sony Reader or a Nook because I'm a rebel like that. I didn't want to follow the crowd and get the Kindle! No Way! But. I got an iPod Touch for Mike's birthday last year. In that year, I'd read books from all over the web using every e-reader app known to man. I didn't like the way the Barnes & Noble app wrapped the text. The other readers were hard to get the right format of books. Amazon's Kindle app was made of awesome. I could buy books, read books, get free books all from my little app. I didn't need a Kindle, I had this nifty little app on my iPod. Then the battery started dying halfway through my day of listening to music while I read. Crap.
Still, I couldn't afford a Kindle. They were $200! Then Apple brought out the iPad upgrades and Barnes & Noble dropped their price point for the Nook. Amazon didn't get to own most of the known universe by being the most expensive toy shop on the web. Kindles were now $140. Close to what I considered acceptable for an impulse buy, but not quite there. I didn't NEED a Kindle. I just wanted one.
Thankfully someone did a study that said reading on a backlit display caused insomnia (something I have a lot). Okay, if I want to get to work on time I need to buy a Kindle. Still not a real must have. I have a stack of to be read books as tall as I am. I'll just read paper books before bed. Yeah, right. I haven't read a entire dead tree book since I put that little app on my iPod.
Two days before my cruise, the Federal Government and Best Buy made the decision for me. Best Buy was bundling their Kindle's with a cover up to $50. I was able to justify to my inner budget nazi that I was really only spending $99 on the Kindle. I didn't even make it home before I had it out of the box. Her name is Lucy. She never leaves my side.
I downloaded every free book I wanted. I was like a kid in a candy store with no security cameras and a loose sense of morals. Books books and more books. If I got tired of one or felt like something different, I hit the Home button and picked something else. My carry on for my trip only weighed fifteen pounds including my computer and all my cords! And I never got bored or had to re-read something because all they had in the gift shop was vampires and werewolves. I had a hundred books and no one would see the gaudy covers and assume I live alone surrounded by cats. (I don't live alone surrounded by cats. The kids still live with me. Come back in three years and mock.)
I have become part of the Kindle Kult. I wonder if I can get my blog as a feed....