So a few weeks in and one chunky book under my belt, how am I getting on with my Kindle …
Pretty well I think. I’m used to the smaller amount of text on the screen versus the page, I’ve used the bookmarking and highlighting functions, searched for a half-remembered quote and found it. I’ve downloaded several free classics, plus a book for my daughter if she wants a go; I used the dictionary too. I’m definitely on top of most of the functions, and I’ve only dropped it once when I fell asleep reading – luckily onto a soft surface. Last night was the first time I had to recharge it having used it most days, but turning the wi-fi off when you don’t need it does preserve the juice. The e-ink is great to read too, not tiring on the eye at all.
These are all positives. Are there any negatives – well yes in that it’s frustrating having to backbutton through masses of pages to find a bit you suddenly need to refer back to. It would be nicer if Kindle books came with bookmarks built in for the chapters and popular passages. Meanwhile I need to remember to insert my own more often. On balance though, it’s a hit.
I’m going to start reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo next. Limiting myself to the free classics for now could be a great way of expanding my education in this area!
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Changing tack now – how am I getting on with the TBR Dare? Well, seventeen days into the ninety I signed up for, I’ve not bought a single book, I’ve even turned down one offer of freebies. I have been into my local bookshop, where I bought not books, but a Puffin Mug(!) and a ticket to see Jasper Fforde on February 22nd in Abingdon, (click here for details.) I may have to give in for this event and buy one book so that I can get it signed, but if I survive until then and promise not to read it or buy any other new books until the end of March, you’ll let me off won’t you?
I wasn’t aware that the TBR dare involved a book-acquisition ban …. I’m certainly not interpreting it that way.
It doesn’t – but if I want to reduce my TBR piles as well as read them, I have to not increase them! So I’m trying not to buy books either.
One of the things that frustrated me to no end on the Nook was that it didn’t have a “go to page” function where you could jump ahead or backwards. It was such a pain if I was switching between a paper version of a book and the electronic text because I’d have to push that next/previous page button SO many times. Thankfully my Sony eReader has the function to easily jump around (and you can “dogear” pages as well as use bookmarks), so it makes marking up text super easy (especially as it has a touch screen).
Nice new photo Steph! There is a go to function, it’s when you can’t quite remember what you’re looking for that takes forever…
Is it safe to encourage your daughter to read things on your Kindle? Are you sure that it wont then disappear completely as happens when I foolishly suggest that the daughters might want to borrow something and then never see said item again!
Have been SO good so far this year and haven’t bought a single book despite numerous temptations – mind you I am still ploughing through the library book mountain so haven’t done much about my own books yet, but at least I’m not adding to the problem!
Luckily she has no real interest in the Kindle unlike OH’s original ipod which is now hers! So I know what you mean!