First of all, a moment of silence for my kindle. Got to city line last night only to find it dead. It will be dearly miss. That said, i just called amazon when i got home today and they're sending a replacement. Should get here by tomorrow.
That said, i have to say there's something about center city philly that makes me feel at home and just puts my fears to rest. That's something about going to Daffy's that excites me. Now i shop and i have to say i've blown more than fifteen hundred shopping this past couple of weeks. I don't get as thrilled walking into a shop in MD as i do when i walk into one in philly or jersey. Not sure what exactly it is.
Either way, I'm soo glad i went out of town. Got up yesterday, laid in bed for 5 hours and finally decided rain or shine i was going to go. They'd predicted rain and the funny thing is at no point did i experience rainfall. it may have poured while i was Daffy's but it was dry when i came out. Thing is i feel better. Yesterday when i was driving up i thought 'it hurts. it cuts like a knife.' I tear up know just thinking about it but i think i'm getting over it. Spent the major part of yesterday morning reading several pothead boyfriend stories and the general consensus is to ran.
Being up north helped to take my mind of things. And it made me realize that as much as it hurts, it's really for the best. i'm actually wondering if it's love. I think it just pains me that i can't be with someone i thought i wanted to be with. I'll miss certain things. In reality, i need to focus. Just heard on Castle that if you wanna get to the top, you can't take anyone with you. Back to old times i guess. Back to studying for the exam.
Lord, i'm a pathetic Shopaholic that needs you. I need a savior.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Five orange pips
Amazon's kindle has me reading all these free old books and among them, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Reading that got me interested in watching PBS 'Sherlock', which btw i like. Anyway, the actor mentioned the five orange pips and i can't help remember how i felt after reading that.
I felt sad, sad at the fact that the young innocent man was killed. His uncle, i don't care so much about. I mean i don't know what he did with the KKK and if they chased him to england, well... life is what you make it. His nephew on the other hand was innocent, had no idea what was going on and the fools didn't give him a chance.
The only thing i'm left to wonder is did the ship sink because of the equinoctial or whatever gales they were having or was there something 'fishy' involved. The question is did the ship sink? Oh well...i wish i knew.
I felt sad, sad at the fact that the young innocent man was killed. His uncle, i don't care so much about. I mean i don't know what he did with the KKK and if they chased him to england, well... life is what you make it. His nephew on the other hand was innocent, had no idea what was going on and the fools didn't give him a chance.
The only thing i'm left to wonder is did the ship sink because of the equinoctial or whatever gales they were having or was there something 'fishy' involved. The question is did the ship sink? Oh well...i wish i knew.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Yet another kindle post
Obviously, i'm bored from having to cram for this exam. Just previewed amazon's christmas commercial for the kindle and it states the price as $139. Boy am i glad i didn't wait till Christmas to get it.
Anyway, gotta go back to reading.
Anyway, gotta go back to reading.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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
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
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