The Kindle That Keeps on Giving
Posted by Raven on December 27th, 2007
We finally got to *do* Christmas at my house this morning. I worked all weekend, and Christmas eve until about 7pm…when I left work with a nasty ass cold, a fever and chills. I got home and literally passed out; only to wake up Christmas morning to return to work for another 16 hour shift.
Yesterday I had to take Marion to some MD appointments; and then to visit my brother and his (selfish) wife (Marion’s real daughter). Between all this, we had to eat, rest, take walks, pick up prescriptions at the pharmacy…there was no time to celebrate anything.
I like to read…a lot. I have thousands of books. SO many books I’m running out of room for them all. I’ve complained about it all too lately; my daughters have unloaded several dozen boxes of my books for me at their colleges and other places…which I HATED to give away but had little choice. UNTIL NOW.
They pooled their cash and bought my not one, not two, but THREE of these:
The Kindle.
AND, the girls also managed to purchase MANY books for one unit- it has 48 books uploaded so far- and they’re all books I had given away in the past four years. Plus, I have subscribed to all my favorite blogs, and posts are automatically uploaded to the Kindle at preset times. It’s pretty cool, this little reader.
My kids got me three of them because they KNOW how many books I read- when I set my mind to it, I’ll go through a dozen books a week. One can organize their Kindle Books into folders and subjects. I have to play around some more, but so far I really like this toy.
From Amazon’s site:
Product Overview
* Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
* Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
* Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
* Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
* More than 90,000 books available, including more than 95 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
* New York Times® Best Sellers and all New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
* Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
* Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
* Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
* Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
* Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
* Holds over 200 titles.
It is light, and very portable. I’ll write a more in depth review on it in another two weeks, after I’ve had the chance to really use it and test it’s features. Right now I am pretty impressed though! Each unit holds over 200 books?? I can see it now: My collections of Kindles on the shelves vs. real books. One Kindle for all my Titanic/Ocean Liner books; another with all my Nursing books; and another ten or so for all my OTHER collections of reads. I see lots of potential…
December 27th, 2007 at 9:34 am
That sounds pretty cool. I’d be interested to know what you think of it after a couple weeks of use. I go thru about 2-3 books a week, depending on size, so that would help me out. Of course, I get a ton of them from the local libraries. I’ll give the Raleigh area kudos for the huge number of them we have.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:35 am
THREE Kindles??? OMG, I am soooo jealous! I was so tempted, but the cost was a bit high, and the Beloved Hubby suggested that we wait until any possible bugs in the first generation were worked out (which only means that we would deal with the bugs in the second generation, LOL)…
**DO** let us know how you like it, Raven - I think I’d like to put one on my wishlist for next year, right alongside the Canon Rebel xti DSLR I’ve been lusting after…
Merry, merry, dear friend! I love you!
December 27th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Oh, and doesn’t the Kindle have the capability to expand it’s memory? Maybe with some memory card, you can expand the library to 400 books per Kindle
December 28th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Wow!!! That is one cool gadget. I would have to dedicate one to holding reference material, no doubt. I hadn’t seen those… don’t get out much these days. Merry Christmas Raven dear! Glad you had such a good one.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Three?! You got THREE Kindles?! I am green with jealousy!
It was on my Christmas list but I got the same speech from my hubby that Kat got from hers. (There must be an online resource page for tight men this year. 
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You have to post an in depth review for us after you’ve given it a good test drive.
I hope you’ve recovered from your illness and that you’re feeling much better.
Wishing you a wonderful and happy New Year, Raven!
December 30th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I haven’t really had time to play too much with it…I do know the light is awesome, not too HOT,
and one CAN download PDF files. LOL….so, when I have had some more time to play I’ll post about it.
Teach: About the library thing? My town’s library is so small they don’t stock up on ALL the books I like to read; one will never find Conservative books there, nor nursing type reads either. So I end up buying many if not most…