I have been seriously neglecting my blog lately, I've been a little preoccupied. The truth? I haven't even turned my computer on for a couple of weeks (work doesn't count). What's been keeping me so busy? I got an amazon kindle and I haven't been able to put it down.
If you haven't heard of them, let me fill you in. A kindle is an ebook reader. There are a few other kinds out there but I got this one. I just love it. It was rather expensive a little over $350, but in my opinion well worth it. This one, unlike the others isn't back lit so you can read forever and it won't strain your eyes. Also it comes with it's own internet hook-up, you can download books straight to your kindle from amazon, so far I haven't found anything that costs more than $10 to download.
I would not have bought it however, if amazon was the only place I could get books. I'm a library girl myself, I like reading for free. Luckily, my library has ebooks available, there is some formatting involved in that though. You can only read kindle formatted books on your kindle, so you have to take them to the amazon site and have them format them for you. If you use the USB port to send them to your kindle from there it's free, if you do it wirelessly, it will cost you ten cents, still not bad. The only problem I have found so far is that you can't necessarily find all the books you want in ebook form, it's a rather new idea though compared with paper bindings, I'm sure publishers will come around. It's not too bad though, I was able to download the new twilight book from my couch for the weekend it came out.
There is a lot more it can do, but I think if I go any further, I'm going to have to try to get some money out of amazon for promoting their product.
Anyway, sorry to be away so long, I'll try to do better.
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