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Elsi · 07-20-2008, 09:45 AM

So ... even though I have one eBook reader (Kindle) and a second on the way (Sony PRS 505), I still read paper books.

Seems a friend of mine was at a charity book sale and when the sale was over, the charity was going to throw all the left-over books in the dumpster. She convinced them to give them to her and there were so many, she had to rent a storage shed to hold them! She offered to give them away for the price of postage (Media Rate, US only) and I sent her postage for four boxes of books.

I figured I'd sort through them for anything I wanted to read and take the rest down to the library in my tiny little Texas town and they could put them into their book sale in September.

But, I didn't tell my hubby that the books were coming. And then I left town for a two-week business trip. Wouldn't you know it? Three of the boxes arrived 2 days after I left. I got a very tersely worded e-mail from my hubby letting me know that he had brought three boxes of books home from the Post Office and dumped them in the garage! I don't think he was amused.

07-20-2008, 09:45 AM	#1
Elsi Wizard Posts: 2,366 Karma: 12000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Texas, USA Device: Kindle; Sony PRS 505; Blackberry 8700C	Boxes and boxes of books So ... even though I have one eBook reader (Kindle) and a second on the way (Sony PRS 505), I still read paper books. Seems a friend of mine was at a charity book sale and when the sale was over, the charity was going to throw all the left-over books in the dumpster. She convinced them to give them to her and there were so many, she had to rent a storage shed to hold them! She offered to give them away for the price of postage (Media Rate, US only) and I sent her postage for four boxes of books. I figured I'd sort through them for anything I wanted to read and take the rest down to the library in my tiny little Texas town and they could put them into their book sale in September. But, I didn't tell my hubby that the books were coming. And then I left town for a two-week business trip. Wouldn't you know it? Three of the boxes arrived 2 days after I left. I got a very tersely worded e-mail from my hubby letting me know that he had brought three boxes of books home from the Post Office and dumped them in the garage! I don't think he was amused.