I adore Jenn Lancaster! She is one of my favorite authors and really turned me on to memoirs. I used to hate reading true life--even though I adore trashy reality TV shows and really like it with Law & Order is "ripped from the headlines." But memoirs were never my cup of tea until I read Jenn Lancaster's Such a Pretty Fat. Now I follow her blog fairly regularly and keep up with her antics online while I wait for a new memoir. Today, she posted a link to this. And it got me thinking.
I don't have a Kindle. Nor have I looked at a Nook. For starters, I try to stay away from technology in it's first generation. There will be bigger and better versions soon to follow. But more importantly, I love books. I love the crack of the spine. I love that my shelves are bulging, both here and at school. But the Kindle might have some merit for me, if Jenn is telling the truth.
See, about two days ago, I finished every book that I brought home for the break, plus one that I bought at B&N. So I'm in a lull. I haven't picked up anything new. I sometimes go through these commitment issues. I just finished the House of Night series and I'm anxiously awaiting the newest installment. None of my fave authors have anything new out. So I'm in a rut. According to Jenn, this wouldn't happen with the Kindle. There would be another book at my fingertips, some of them free, and I would be a happy reader once again.
Some may think that the Kindle signifies the end of reading as we know it. I'm not buying into this. There are enough of us that still have to have that paper/hardback feeling at our fingertips. But the Kindle might be a little bit more convenient. It surely would stop all that fussing that my kids do when they get their 30 pound textbook at the beginning of the year. And if all of their textbooks fit in one place, they might actually bring them to class everyday.
Imagine that? Students WITH books EVERY day. That doesn't sound too bad to me at all.
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I, too, read Jen's "Kindle Is Not The Devil" interview — which, by the way, was good to know, because I had strongly suspected it was — and was surprised. Pleasantly so. She's the second bibliophile in as many days (OK, the other was my cousin, but he counts) who had come out singing Kindle's praises.
I love how you admit to "commitment issues" with books/authors. My husband asked me all summer long why I was going to the library, B&N or BaM when I had a pristine copy of "Pretty in Plaid" sitting on the coffee table. Him: "I thought that was the chick from Chicago that you love?"" Me: "It is. But If I read it, it'll be over ..." Him: ?
;-)
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