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Booky wooks
Nov. 30th, 2011 11:55 amYou know that thing when you're trying to decide what book to read next, and you assemble a hefty pile of paperbacks that you fancy and get into bed and spread them all out on your duvet and read all of the blurbs and the first pages... and eventually you choose one and pile the rest into a queue on your bedside table?
Well last night I had the Kindle version of that experience, having just splurged on SEVEN new Kindle books. I sat up in bed whilst Micro was blissfully asleep and read the opening pages of each book. (Then I realised that Micro's sleeping hours were numbered and zonked off to sleep without deciding... but anyway.)
This has all led me onto another Kindle thought for those of you who have them. It took me ages yesterday to whittle down my purchases to only seven books and I found myself thinking that it would be cool if there was a sort of 'bedside queue' facility where you could place a virtual pile of books as a reminder of things that you want to read later. Anyway the solution exists! For any Kindle book that you're thinking of buying, you can download a sample of the opening pages for free. I have now been able to stash up a nice little queue of opening chapters on my Kindle as a reminder of books that I might want to buy later.
The fact that I never get time to read any more is a whole nother matter.
NB: Those of you that don't have Kindles, please don't respond to this post with some sort of gloating comment about being someone who loves "real books" and despises all other mediums. It's just as irritating as snobbery against audiobooks. I really can't abide Ludditism disguised as superiority. (You know who you are... "I simply refuse to own a smart phone!" etc) The fact remains that it is perfectly possible to love the look, feel, smell and all-round deliciousness of paper books - and to fill your house with shelves full of them - whilst simultaneously embracing new and alternative ways to read. So, yah boo sucks! ;-)
Well last night I had the Kindle version of that experience, having just splurged on SEVEN new Kindle books. I sat up in bed whilst Micro was blissfully asleep and read the opening pages of each book. (Then I realised that Micro's sleeping hours were numbered and zonked off to sleep without deciding... but anyway.)
This has all led me onto another Kindle thought for those of you who have them. It took me ages yesterday to whittle down my purchases to only seven books and I found myself thinking that it would be cool if there was a sort of 'bedside queue' facility where you could place a virtual pile of books as a reminder of things that you want to read later. Anyway the solution exists! For any Kindle book that you're thinking of buying, you can download a sample of the opening pages for free. I have now been able to stash up a nice little queue of opening chapters on my Kindle as a reminder of books that I might want to buy later.
The fact that I never get time to read any more is a whole nother matter.
NB: Those of you that don't have Kindles, please don't respond to this post with some sort of gloating comment about being someone who loves "real books" and despises all other mediums. It's just as irritating as snobbery against audiobooks. I really can't abide Ludditism disguised as superiority. (You know who you are... "I simply refuse to own a smart phone!" etc) The fact remains that it is perfectly possible to love the look, feel, smell and all-round deliciousness of paper books - and to fill your house with shelves full of them - whilst simultaneously embracing new and alternative ways to read. So, yah boo sucks! ;-)
