Well hello there,
I was just reading all the great posts on mobileread.com (or "usurping info" as b0b would say) and I thought this looked like a MUCH better forum than the one I had been trying to get involved with where the moderator was all over me like a duck on a June bug.
A rude and angry duck.
...with a lousy vocabulary, delusions of grandeur and a mild case of paranoid schizophrenia, but then, I'm no psychotherapist. I'm not really a cowboy either, I just play one on over budget IT projects.
I write a lot, talk more than I write and read even more than that. My house is really just a multi-chambered bookshelf. I suffer from a mental disorder that keeps me from getting rid of books even if I don't like them or want to read them. (Actually, other people suffer from it. I actually enjoy it.) I guess you could say I have a vague and superstitious notion that if I destroy a book I would have to invade Poland or something.
Just the other day my wife THREW AWAY a copy of a Masonic Bible that belonged to her father because she said it was "just too weird". She THREW IT AWAY! I was taught that if you drop a book with the word "bible" printed on it, you should pick it up, kiss it and put it away gently.
Different strokes I guess.
Anyway...
I've read well over a hundred ebooks on Palm and Widows Mobile devices. I read my Treo 680 so much that it kind of aggravates me when a call comes in and interrupts the story. I had heard about the Kindle a few months back and thought it was a pretty cool gadget for somebody like me. When I heard about the free EVDO connection I made up my mind.
Last Monday (Jan 28th) I decided I was ready to get one and went to the Amazon site hoping to be able to get it in time for the weekend.
Right now I'm working on my "Things I Should Have Read in High School Had I Attend More Regularly" reading list so maybe I'll have a chance to finish Moby Dick BEFORE my Kindle gets in.
aj