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Originally Posted by Numinous
I Finally got my Kindle 2 in March. After a month or so of fiddling about with both my K1 and K2, I decided to give the K1 to my 16 year old daughter. I loaded it with almost all of the Sookie Stackhouse books and 35 of the 36 or so Terry Pratchett books.
A day or so later, she comments in passing, "Dude, the Kindle is the best thing ever!" Now, she carries it with her everywhere she goes. To my shock, she disconnected it from my Amazon account and set up her own account. I believe she's bought the whole Twilight series.
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Out of the mouth of babes! The Twilight series is a decent-enough read for teens.
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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
The Sookie Stackhouse novels is why I bought a kindle! I fell in love with True Blood, but didn't like waiting to find out what was going to happen (I like books, where I control the flow of content). Anyway, I went to check out the first book at the library - there was a huge waiting list. Four months after the series ended for the year, I still hadn't made it to the top of the waiting list. I bought my kindle 1, and read the first 6 books during Christmas vacation. I downloaded the 7th while waiting for a flight, where I was separated from my family in a middle seat. The kindle saved my life.
I didn't like the Amazon price on the 8th book, and bought it someplace else and learned here how to put it on my kindle. And I checked the most recent book out of the library and put it on my kindle.
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I picked up the 8th book in the series from Amazon at the very low price of $3.95. I just happened to stumble across it at that price -- don't know if it was a mistake or an unannounced special -- so I've got it saved away until I catch up to it. I've read the first 3 in the series and want to purchase/read #4, but I'm having to catch up on reading some paper books that I've promised to friends.
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Originally Posted by Numinous
I too believe that, "Dude, the Kindle is one of the best things ever," though I vastly prefer the K 2 to the K 1. However, I'm not telling my daughter that.
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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I love the kindle 1, and have no desire for a kindle 2. I suppose the kindle 2 is better for reading without a cover, but I am so used to my nice Oberon cover, I have no desire to read without it!
The only problem with the kindle is that it has overtaken my life. I have quit knitting, quit sewing, quit every activity I did during baseball games and commuting, and just read, read, read. I know a lot of people hate Jeff Bezos, but I think he deserves a medal.
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I'm with Sydney's Mom here -- I can't see any reason to purchase a Kindle 2. I'm still using the supplied cover and find that the Kindle 1 is very comfortable in my hands when reading. Since I was such an avid reader before getting my Kindle and Sony readers, I haven't seen much change in the amount of time I spend reading. What has changed is that I've experienced a number of new-to-me authors, in particular authors who are publishing their own books or books coming from small publishing houses.
Congratulations for gifting your daughter with a Kindle. I'm planning on getting one to give my daughter for her 26th birthday. She was quite skeptical about readers until I bought a book that she was wanting to read but which she couldn't find in any bookstore and loaned her my Kindle. (One big advantage with electronic books is the ability to quickly locate the early books in a series!)