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Turtle Woman · 11-27-2006, 07:11 PM

I had ordered mine from Amazon right after they came out and was told it would ship today. Imagine my delight when I got the email on Nov. 15 saying it had shipped! Due to some foolishness by DHL I didn't get the package until Nov. 20. I had downloaded several books to my Dell Axim 50v and I sure was tired of the battery running down every few hours of reading! And the little tiny screen was a pain. I am madly in love with my Reader.

I think the attraction to a non-gadget person might be the ability to carry around a whole library, especially since you can get all the classics at Manybooks.org (thank you to the person here who introduced me to that site). I have a wall of bookshelves that are full to overflowing and I'm going to have to downsize in a few years. That will not be nearly so painful with the ability to carry a lot of books on my Reader.

11-27-2006, 07:11 PM	#77
Turtle Woman Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roswell, NM Device: Sony Reader	Got mine a week ago and I'm still in love! I had ordered mine from Amazon right after they came out and was told it would ship today. Imagine my delight when I got the email on Nov. 15 saying it had shipped! Due to some foolishness by DHL I didn't get the package until Nov. 20. I had downloaded several books to my Dell Axim 50v and I sure was tired of the battery running down every few hours of reading! And the little tiny screen was a pain. I am madly in love with my Reader. I think the attraction to a non-gadget person might be the ability to carry around a whole library, especially since you can get all the classics at Manybooks.org (thank you to the person here who introduced me to that site). I have a wall of bookshelves that are full to overflowing and I'm going to have to downsize in a few years. That will not be nearly so painful with the ability to carry a lot of books on my Reader.