Is my Kindle here yet?
After a couple years of reading ebooks on my iPod touch, I've taken the plunge and ordered a Kindle! Yay!
There is also free two-day shipping if you order today. Here's a link
if you'd like to join me in impulsive ereader shopping.
Although it wasn't a terribly impulsive purchase. I'm still anti-stuff, and I would like to winnow down what I already own rather that adding more to the pile, especially since I'd like to move to a groovy loft someday with very little to tie me down.
Yesterday I saw a color Literati on sale at Bed, Bath & Beyond while I was refilling the C02 canister for my soda maker. Now, I don't think of it as any sort of main brand of ereader by any means...but the thing was just 40 bucks, so I almost did an impulse buy then and there. The dealbreaker was that nowhere on the packaging did it say which file type the ereader accepted. Also, the demo model didn't do anything. It appeared to be on, but when I pushed the navigation thingy, nothing happened. (I also poked the screen, but I see now it was not a touch screen). So I shrugged, bought my C02 and left.
Then today online I was actually shopping for a monitor, because I can re-configure my standing desk to be more user-friendly if I swap all my gear out, but to do that I need a more modern monitor there, because the little computer I'd hook to it won't do a vga hookup and the old monitor there is vga only. So I looked at monitors for a long time, realized they were probably cheapest w/ the free shipping at Amazon, looked at Amazon for a while, decided I could make do well enough with the setup I had...and bought a Kindle.
I've been planning to buy a cheap Kindle, cheap Sony and cheap Nook this year so I can give better customer service, and also to ensure my ebooks look as good as they can on all of them...but I don't want to drop the money all at once. I think seeing that Literati and coming so close to buying it is really what decided me. I just thought, "Ya know, if they won't even list the file type on the box, how user friendly can it be?" and I decided it must be marketed toward an ebook dabbler rather than an ebook user.
I also figure I'm going to do another round of edits on GhosTV soon, and the thought of doing them either on my iPod or at my desktop was not appealing at all!
There is also free two-day shipping if you order today. Here's a link
if you'd like to join me in impulsive ereader shopping.Although it wasn't a terribly impulsive purchase. I'm still anti-stuff, and I would like to winnow down what I already own rather that adding more to the pile, especially since I'd like to move to a groovy loft someday with very little to tie me down.
Yesterday I saw a color Literati on sale at Bed, Bath & Beyond while I was refilling the C02 canister for my soda maker. Now, I don't think of it as any sort of main brand of ereader by any means...but the thing was just 40 bucks, so I almost did an impulse buy then and there. The dealbreaker was that nowhere on the packaging did it say which file type the ereader accepted. Also, the demo model didn't do anything. It appeared to be on, but when I pushed the navigation thingy, nothing happened. (I also poked the screen, but I see now it was not a touch screen). So I shrugged, bought my C02 and left.
Then today online I was actually shopping for a monitor, because I can re-configure my standing desk to be more user-friendly if I swap all my gear out, but to do that I need a more modern monitor there, because the little computer I'd hook to it won't do a vga hookup and the old monitor there is vga only. So I looked at monitors for a long time, realized they were probably cheapest w/ the free shipping at Amazon, looked at Amazon for a while, decided I could make do well enough with the setup I had...and bought a Kindle.
I've been planning to buy a cheap Kindle, cheap Sony and cheap Nook this year so I can give better customer service, and also to ensure my ebooks look as good as they can on all of them...but I don't want to drop the money all at once. I think seeing that Literati and coming so close to buying it is really what decided me. I just thought, "Ya know, if they won't even list the file type on the box, how user friendly can it be?" and I decided it must be marketed toward an ebook dabbler rather than an ebook user.
I also figure I'm going to do another round of edits on GhosTV soon, and the thought of doing them either on my iPod or at my desktop was not appealing at all!
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