Kindle Love
I've had my Kindle for almost a week. And I ADORE it.
It's pleasant to actually read, which is the most important thing. Within 20 minutes I didn't notice I was using an e-book reader anymore. Downloading is ridiculously easy. There are TONS of free books available.
I took it on its first road trip, to Savannah, and BOY was it nice to have 10 different things to read in the space of one paperback. (Sort of between a mass market and a trade in size).
And then there's the "experimental" basic web browser. It's a little buggy, and a pain to navigate, but... free net access. From anywhere. It only works well for text-based pages, but lots of sites have text-only links again because so many people are using PDAs. Nice to check LJ. And I bookmarked a couple of the fanfics I've been reading.
So here is what I have on my Kindle so far:
Touchstone by Laurie R. King, which didn't grab me until about 1/4 of the way through, but now I am hooked.
A Year With Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, which has sort of become my daily devotional.
Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Little Women
Jane Eyre
My Own Kind of Freedom by Steven Brust (unpublished Firefly tie-in, and it's pretty good)
assorted travel books-- DC, Prague, Berlin-- for my trip this summer
a sample of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America
It's pleasant to actually read, which is the most important thing. Within 20 minutes I didn't notice I was using an e-book reader anymore. Downloading is ridiculously easy. There are TONS of free books available.
I took it on its first road trip, to Savannah, and BOY was it nice to have 10 different things to read in the space of one paperback. (Sort of between a mass market and a trade in size).
And then there's the "experimental" basic web browser. It's a little buggy, and a pain to navigate, but... free net access. From anywhere. It only works well for text-based pages, but lots of sites have text-only links again because so many people are using PDAs. Nice to check LJ. And I bookmarked a couple of the fanfics I've been reading.
So here is what I have on my Kindle so far:
Touchstone by Laurie R. King, which didn't grab me until about 1/4 of the way through, but now I am hooked.
A Year With Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, which has sort of become my daily devotional.
Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Little Women
Jane Eyre
My Own Kind of Freedom by Steven Brust (unpublished Firefly tie-in, and it's pretty good)
assorted travel books-- DC, Prague, Berlin-- for my trip this summer
a sample of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America