Kindle Update
After a week with my new Kindle, I love it. I have to admit, when I first unpacked it there was kind of a letdown. It just didn’t seem to live up to all the hype, although it was a nice-looking device.
Now I’ve had time to actually sit and read a few books. And found a few tricks to make reading on it even more comfortable, like changing the line spacing and font size. And I have to say, Wow. No more fingers stained with ink from holding the paperback open. No more hands cramped from holding the paperback open. No more “ok, how long can I read, and how many books do I need to take to the place I’m going to sit and read?” No more “I just finished the first two books in the series and I don’t have the third one so I have to go to the computer and order it and wait 3 days before it shows up.”
Ah, yes, the ordering. Ordering a Kindle book is REALLY EASY. Almost too easy. There are 3 ways to order a Kindle book from Amazon:
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1. go to Amazon.com, search for the book, click the title, click the Kindle version, click “Send Wirelessly to my Kindle” and the book appears on the Kindle in about 60 seconds.
2. Press Menu on the Kindle, choose Shop in Kindle Store. Search the store for the book, press “Buy Now.” The book appears almost instantly on the Kindle.
3. (And this is the one that’s been killing me.) Finish the free sample of the book you sent to the Kindle earlier, to see if that book is worth buying. At the end of the sample is a page that says “Enjoyed the Sample? Buy Now” and click Buy Now. Finish the book.
That’s another thing I really like about the Kindle: samples. I have so many books I want to read, or re-read. Rather than killing my credit card by purchasing them all now, I can send the free sample to my Kindle. Then, as I’m browsing my list of Kindle books, if the sample sounds like what I want to read right now, I can read it and buy it. If it’s a book I haven’t tried before, and I don’t like the sample, I can just delete it without having wasted my money on buying it. Plus, no more stacks and stacks of purchased yet unread books piled up taunting me.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I have a few books to sample. . . .
PS- I’d like to point out that after more than a week, the new desk is still clean:
