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So. This weekend I finally did it. I joined the e-revolution.
It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I half expected a mob to show up outside my house last night as I read Stephen King's Full Dark No Stars on my new Kindle. But there were no mobs or pitchforks or torches. No one came and took my library of books away from me.
And I really enjoyed reading on it. I wasn't sure I would, but I did. My only beef so far is that I don't like not knowing where I'm at in the book. I know it tells me the percent I've completed at the bottom of the screen, but it isn't the same as visually seeing where I've dog eared at.
I splurged and got a book cover for it with a hidden light. Man have I been missing out on the reading light revolution, because suddenly when I realized it was 4 in the morning and my husband had already gone to bed and my eyes ought to have been straining against the text, the light made all the difference. It isn't the same as reading a print book, but it's not bad either. I felt pleasure reading both books I downloaded (well, sort of, Full Dark No Stars isn't really pleasure reading) and I didn't really wish I were holding a print book instead. I don't think my Kindle will be the only way I read from now on, but it is a good way to keep me from drowning in unshelved books in my office. The whole point of the purchase was because the amount of books I needed shelving space for would have filled one more large bookcase and half of another. Not only is that expensive, but also I don't have the room. The Kindle is going to make it possible for me to keep my office clean and organized but also allow me to download as many books as I like.
I'm a cover lover, so books with gorgeous covers will still be bought in hardback. Does that make me sound shallow? I only buy the pretty books.
The other book I downloaded and started was the YA book that came out this week, XVI by Julie Karr. So far so good, though I'm not very far into it. I also downloaded for free Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. They are both books on my To Be Read list for this year.
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