I have re-discovered my craze for reading after my son's birth. Since then, I have bought a lot of books from Amazon and am almost done with them. Now I find that we have no more space left for books. This was around the time Amazon slashed the price for Kindle from 250 to 189. I thought why not! But my husband was more inclined to get a iPad. After a lot of arguments and deliberation, I convinced my husband to go for Kindle.
a) I don't really need a fancy browsing device - all I need is a reader which is exactly what Kindle is!
b) Cost! Kindle wins big time here
We got our Kindle yesterday and boy am I already in love with it! It is all I imagined it to be and more. I have already bought around 5 books since yesterday, so need to keep a tab on my spending here. I mean, who can resist buying a book when it is so easy, right!
pros:
- There is this "try sample" feature when you browse for books which lets you peek into few pages of the book . I am a big fan of this. It's akin to walking into a book-store and browsing a few pages before you decide to buy the book. How cool is that!
- You can adjust the font, you can flip/rotate the screen to your liking.
- The black and white screen! No better substitute for a book.
cons:
- The "enter" button is on the slower side. By pressing this multiple times, I accidentally bought more books. But the cool thing is, they have an option to cancel the purchase immediately if it was a not-intended purchase.
I will add more to this space in future.
I had always imagined that there is no substitute for reading an actual book. I am glad my fears have not come true. I am actually loving the experience. I especially don't miss having to hold a heavy paper back. With Kindle, I can easily hold it in one hand while I rock my son to sleep. You don't have to worry about waking him up because of the light on the screen or when you need to flip a page. Now that is priceless!
