I downloaded the new book in the "Game of Thrones" series and I enjoyed reading it at the pool. I would cover almost every inch of skin and have a cocktail ready and spend a couple of hours in the cool breeze and the sun enjoying the trials and tribulations of all my favorite characters in the Seven Kingdoms.
The book is great so far and I know what the problem will be. I will finish it by tomorrows and have to wait ten more years for the next one.
The only downside with a Kindle is you don't really know how much is left in the book when you are reading it. But I know it will be all too short.
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Look you Mr. All Technie.
You Go Girl.
Pic with the Ipad 2 would be nice.
What are you doing on that Ipad?
That's a kindle Titus. I don't have the Ipad@ the wife does.
I might get one later in the summer.
I love my Kindle, too.
Looks like you got the tasteful leather cover that makes it a bit more booklike. I've got the same, and it's great.
I tend to read 3 or 4 books at once, and the problem is that I scatter them all over the house, and, of course, loose them. I've gone through 5 copies of Evening in the Palace of Reason, for example. Have no idea where the other 4 went, but I was bound and determined to read, re-read, and keep that book to hand as a source of bloggable material. I just kept ordering copies from Amazon until one finally stuck.
My wife, like Trooper's, was sick of picking up books after me, so the Kindle has been a boon to both of us. I'm not going to say anything about her, or the boys' book scattering habits, but at least one of us is pretty much off that carousel.
Now I've got a groaning bookshelf in the Kindle, not mention a couple of hours of music, and it's not even a quarter full. It's possible to get free editions of the classics from Project Gutenberg, Google Books, etc. Amazon, too, has an impressive collection of out-of-copyright greats that are either free or very cheap.
The problem with free e-books, and, frankly, many of them that aren't free, is bad or nonexistent editing. It often looks like someone just ran a print original through a scanner and OCR and didn't bother to look at the results. And along with predictable typos, things like em-dashes and italics are the first to go. Then there are live tables of contents, meaning you can click on an entry and be taken to the page. This is absolutely necessary in anything long, but it also seems to be an early casualty of quick and dirty e-book production. You get what you pay for when it's free, so multiple downloads to find a good one is expected. What steams me is when I've paid $9.95 and find similar crappy editing. Conclusion: Caveat emptor.
End of rant.
But I still love my Kindle.
That's "...are expected...." above.
I, too, need an editor.
Looks like you got the tasteful leather cover that makes it a bit more booklike.
Fine Corinthian leather?
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