I'd seen the Amazon Kindle ads for months, every time I got online to purchase Christmas gifts for other people. I'd look at all the hype, then look lovingly at my big stack of books on my bedside table, and I'd just laugh. "There is no way I'd give up a good, old-fashioned book for something like that!" I thought. At the time I was also thinking of the 900+ page book I'd just bought and planned on bringing up to Utah for Christmas--Doris Kearns Goodwin's goodness called Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. It's AWESOME, and it's HEAVY.
But then my sweet hubby surprised me with a Kindle, and I started using it. I've got a bookcase of free digital "classics" on my Kindle so far, everything from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Edgar Allan Poe and good ol' Leo Tolstoy. I feel so SMART. Another really, really, really happy day was when I "purchased" a free version of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. I placed a hold at our local library for that book and had been waiting MONTHS for a turn with it. Now it is mine, all mine, whenever I want to look at!!!!!! (I am smiling ear to ear right now!!!!)
Today I took the plunge and actually spent some money on books for the Kindle. First I bought the LDS Scriptures Kindle edition, which has all the LDS Standard Works and then a treasure chest of other stuff, everything from hymns to inspirational quotes to the Family Proclamation. Then (don't laugh) I turned the other way and bought True Grit, by Charles Portis!
I'm done for a while. It'll take me a long time to read everything on this slim device. Plus, I've still got plenty to keep me busy with my "real book" pile--that Lincoln book and this HUGE Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 and The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner for book club and The Help because Santa got it for me and it's worth reading again.
I love books.
Any form.
The End.
