Kindle On Its' Way!

Amazon just set me an email telling me that my Kindle just shipped. My roommate just received his and I'm sure that my wife will be ecstatic because it means that I will stop stealing hers. Personally I love it as an e-reader, it's bang on in my opinion because it's just plain simple. There are no frills to be had, no multi functional mistakes. It's not a PDA, a game system or a laptop, and it doesn't pretend to be. To the people that keep trying to criticize it for not having calendar scheduling or a phone, "It's an e-reader, it reads books. Period." And so much the better. To the people who claim that their Palm from five years ago does just as good a job, "Keep telling yourself that, while I download the next book in the series that I've been reading."

Okay, it has a proprietary format that is based off an old format and that kind of sucks. I can't share willy-nilly the book that I've purchased with all my friends. I have not played with the sharing that does exist in fairness, but here is a reality: authors and publishers are in it to make money. And here's another: you can't read the same book in multiple locations when it's made of paper. I'll be able to speak more on this after I've experimented with the multiple account sharing features, for now though I'm quite happy that it's on its' way. The fact is that it was so cool that it got me reading for fun again, and that is a task. It's easy to carry, easy to update your library, and easy to read in practically all situations that one would read a book. Don't let them fool you, it's a screen, it can develop some glare. Not so much as it prevents you from reading after tipping the Kindle a bit. It doesn't have a back lite. So? Last time I checked my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows didn't have one built into the book either.

My plan? Curl up on my new Victorian style couch with a blanket, let my puppy burrow a bit, turn on the light in the corner and continue the fantasy series, that I've been attempting to ignore the romance plot line in and concentrate on the supernatural aspects. A little bit of fluff is good for the soul, nothing too deep just plain fun.