Kindle – likes and not likes

Now that my Kindle is three months old (and I haven't given it a name yet, yikes! ), I'm going to list the pros and cons I discovered through usage – not so intensive, I mean, I'm not addicted to it yet. BUT I like some things and don't like others, so here goes the list.

I like its size and the unlimited (for me) number of books I can load it with – and no change in size or weight. Very good for travel. I have now my 20 books + 30 something between fiction and non-fiction, and I've read only half of them.

I like the fact that I can go online when I find a wi-fi spot when traveling without carrying a laptop – although the Kindle keyboard for me is very unpractical.

I like the text-to-speech option when I'm sick of Bollywood soundtracks – although I'm not a fan of audio books, so I'm using it only on my own work.

I DON'T like the fact that I can't check how long there is until the end of the chapter or the story (if it's a collection of shorts). If I don't have much time or am very tired, with dead tree books I can check how long the next bit is, with e-books… not so much. Yes, there's the percentage of the book, but this doesn't tell me how long that particular chapter/story is.

And it's not good for comics, graphic novels and illustrated books – yet. Maybe the new models are. For a first e-reader, it's cheap and does its job, so I'll keep it. I'll buy an i-Pad or something else when I have some royalties to share!

But what I most like now is that we have Kindle on Amazon.it! Yessir, from this month us KDP authors will sell also in Italy and Spain! Will have to upload some Italian titles ASAP… And I'm assuming that when Amazon India opens in January, KDP will get there very quickly as well… yay!

Oh, and to celebrate the latest release, 50% off for the first weekend. Simply enter the code ZT83Q on check out – you have until Sunday night. Happy reading!