|  01-09-2011, 10:24 AM | #1 | 
| Broke Down  Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Memphis Device: Kindle 3 | 
				
				Hi there
			 
			
			Hi everybody! How do you do? Please feel free to call me Merry. I learned to read when I was three years old. (For context, I'm now forty.) My grandmother, mother and sister all teamed up to teach me. My grandmother also taught me to take care of books, and give them respect, because "books are our friends." ["Respect" meant, practically, not laying a book open face-down, or bending the pages down, or using a book as a coaster, etc. But I was an anthropomorphizing sort of kid.] I never had a book Best Friend before! It is just so awesome. And I've only had it for a week or two. I can do without flying cars, so long as I've got my magic book.  It's nice to meet you all. | 
|   |   | 
|  01-09-2011, 10:28 AM | #2 | 
| Home for the moment            Posts: 5,127 Karma: 27718936 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: travelling Device: various | 
			
			Hi, welcome to MR from the Netherlands. Be sure to check out the excellent formatted free classic books on MR.   | 
|   |   | 
| Advert | |
|  | 
|  01-09-2011, 10:32 AM | #3 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus,  Sony T1,  iPad 3 | 
			
			Hi Merry and welcome to MobileRead. See attached cartoon. Think your Grandma would like it.
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  01-09-2011, 05:42 PM | #4 | 
| It's Dr. Penguin now!            Posts: 3,909 Karma: 4705733 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: (USA) Device: iPad mini, Samsung Note 3, Sony PRS-650 (rarely used now) | 
			
			Welcome to the forum, Merry! Many happy years to you and your new ereader friend   I am never separated from mine for long! | 
|   |   | 
|  01-09-2011, 07:46 PM | #5 | 
| Guru            Posts: 924 Karma: 1000000 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle | 
			
			Hi, Merry, and welcome. You sure did learn to read early.
		 | 
|   |   | 
| Advert | |
|  | 
|  01-10-2011, 05:50 AM | #6 | 
| Chocolate Grasshopper ...            Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW |  Welcome to mobileread | 
|   |   | 
|  01-10-2011, 07:07 AM | #7 | 
| neilmarr            Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony | 
			
			Good to have your company, Merry. Happy Kindling and best wishes. Neil
		 | 
|   |   | 
|  01-11-2011, 12:00 AM | #8 | 
| Queen of Procrastination            Posts: 1,884 Karma: 1802 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Nevada Device: K2, K3, Fire | 
			
			Wow, you learned to read when you were three? I'm impressed! Welcome to MR :-) Sandy | 
|   |   |