The Kindle

Well, earlier this year i wanted the $259 kindle. It was just too expensive for me to buy. I know they'd been about 300 bucks earlier when they first came around. I actually wanted it for my birthday and then amazon brought out the latest generation with a lower price - $139. I knew i had to get one. I pre-ordered after going back and forth trying to decided between the kindle and the nook. I cancelled my pre-order after i hearing from the grapevine that amazon will likely drop the prices around Christmas. I thought why not wait. Well, I need to read. Part of what killed me during the summer was that i was too lazy to read. I borrowed books from the library and i barely read them. I figured the kindle might help me read more.

Guess what? it did. I got it last week, and thought what more to kindle my love for reading than burglar novel by Lawrence block. I believe the last book i read completely back in kansas was a Block novel about Bernie and i loved it back then. The library only had 2 of his burglar books so it ended there. I purchased "The burlgar on the prowl" and finished yesterday. Now i can't put my kindle down. I own the barron's hardcopy book but studying word listse from it has been a pain. So i ordered the kindle version last night and i've read the analogy section twice and completed 2 of the tests. I actually like reading on the the kindle better.

Even if amazon isn't making profit on the kindle, they'll surely make profit on book sales. I mean the probability that i'll order a block novel from amazon is zero because the library has them. But with the kindle, i've purchased 2 so far. Kinda suckx a little knowing that amazon sells the used copy for $2.39 and ships free with prime, too. I had the used ones in my cart but i love being able to look up a work immediately while reading instead of looking it up in a hard copy dictionary. I've learned soo many words just by reading. In fact the same applies to studying with the barron ebook. You can move your cursor to a word to look it up. Normally when i read the hardcopy book, i don't stop to look up words in the answer stem i don't know because it's tedious flipping back and forth through the dictionary. Plus the dictionary that came with my kindle is more comprehensive than the pocketsized one i own and offers things like "the right word" concerning words of the same semantic.

The kindle has 2 dictionaries by the way. I've purchased free books but i plan on buying the non-free ones as well. I know most of the books i wouldn't purchase, like Steig Larson or the doctor nover, knife music, i believe is the title. But i've seen them on the kindle store front, and for knife music, i read something by the author from the kindle daily and it made me wanna order the book right away.

I just wish the books were a little cheaper. i mean Blocks first Bernie novel is 8bucks. The book was written in the 70's. Why can't it be $5. I know i'll be ordering them in packs instead of buying them one at a time. Besides, i plan on reading the rest hardcopy. Buying a kindle book gives you the right to own read the book on your device. it's not like you own it like a hardcopy where you can sell it used.

i got a free biology textbook via kindle and i loved how it felt real, easy to navigate through the chapters, diagrams were just like the books. Great i thought. But considering publishers are selling e-books for about the same price as paperbacks or even more in some cases, i'm definately not going to dish out $150 for a bio textbook or o-chem textbook. Normally, i keep my textbooks clean and sell them either at profit or break even. Rarely do i sell at a small loss. I refused to buy the ichapters book for the bio II textbook because at $25 less than the physical copy, i considered it a waste of money, besides you couldn't sell it and only had access for a year.
If i'm a taking a litterature class or philosophy class where i can get kindle books cheap on amazon, i'll definately buy it but for a science major, i don't see the benefit.

I could go on and on and i know this post is somewhat desultory but i love my kindle, i'm glad i chose it because the $10 difference between this and the nook wasn't a big deal but i'll have to pay 6% on the price of the nook, 6% on books i buy and amazon has cheaper book prices than barnes and noble. Heck, barnes and noble has my philly address so they'll prolly be charging 8% tax instead of 6%. Plus i earn rewards on amazon. i heard the kindle was faster with page turns and to me, it's very fast, almost evanescent. i mean the old page vanishes and new one reappears in milliseconds. I'll end it here