I’m an avid reader in case you didn’t know. I’m also a rather fast reader so I go through novels like most people go through tea bags and coffee filters. Unfortunately, I don’t get rid of any of my the novels I’ve already read as I often like to read them again a few months down the road since a good yarn is worth reading more than once. So, for the sake of the sagging floors in our house due to all the bookcases loaded with previously read novels and such (she has just about every book she collected during her lifetime as well), my lady bought me a Kindle 3 for Christmas.
I’m in literary heaven. Of course being the old geek that I am the first thing I did, after reading through the entire manual that is, was to upgrade the software (from version 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 “preview”). No problems ensued and the “experimental” browser the Kindle comes with doesn’t freeze the thing up any longer. A very well made, well thought out machine this Kindle is. I’m rather impressed.
To top it all off she also made me a custom, one of a kind Kindle case using various pieces parts from her quilt shop and along with two slabs of cardboard cut out of my old corn flakes cereal box, for protection of all the buttons the Kindle comes with, and sewed the cardboard into the case. Works for me.
Now if I could just keep the cats from hogging it all the time everything would be cool. I never knew cats could read.
Call yourself a man? Hah! Everyone knows that real men never read manuals until the thing is broken and they have mucked it up entirely with their attempts to fix it. Reading a manual is like falling at the first fence. Where is the challenge in that?
Grandad – But the manual was on the Kindle itself so if I let it go until it mucked up I couldn’t very well read the manual then could I? Besides, I had to read it in order to know how to download books to the thing. Otherwise the only thing to read was the manual.
That is so cool Kirk. I am still on the fence about Kindle. I will watch for future posts to see how you fair long term.
Gotta say, Grandad’s got a point… What were you thinkin’? Real men don’t read manuals…
Denise – If just the act of just reading a book on the Kindle wore it out I would have worn it out already. I’ve hardly put it down since I got it. As an old geek with over 3 decades of fiddle-farting around with computer technology and an avid reader I tended to be rather skeptical to say the least of these Ebook readers to say the least but so far I’m very impressed with the Kindle 3. It was even ridiculously easy to upgrade the software. I’ll post updates as time goes by though.