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Originally Posted by
ELazansky
I think the "collecting" books line is what separates people who have/want a Kindle and those who don't. I used to have a library of about 500 books that I kept packing up and taking with me every time I moved. It just got to be too much, so I donated them. Now, I usually check out books from the library. Except for collecting SK, I don't feel the need to have shelves of books anymore. Collectors will never want a Kindle - casual readers will.
Sorry to dissappiont you but I collect books and I love my Kindle. The screen is just so easy to read and if the font is not the size I want I can change it.
The thing fits much better in my purse then even a pb copy of the small books does, no getting the pages all mashed up and folded funny from other things in there. And the Kindle now has like 15 books on it instead of just one. I will never give up my collection of real books (they can pry them out of my cold dead hands), but this thing is great for those on the go or even just sitting around at home. When I am done with a book and want to read something I don't have in a real book atm I just pop onto Amazon.com and buy the e-version while I sit on my couch. I have already bought books on it that I would never have bought a real copy of, cause I don't collect that author, but now I get to read the book without cluttering up my shelves more with books I may never touch again.
As to the bathtub, well I guess I am different then most cause I read my Kindle in the tub with no more worries then I would have if I had a real book in my hand. I wouldn't want to drop a real book in the tub any more then I would want to drop my Kindle in it. I may end up puttting it in a plastic bag at some point so in the unlikely event it does get dropped (yet to drop a book in the tub) it won't be an issue.
I am acutally reading more now then I used to due to the sheer convienence of the thing. I most likely never would have read Andre Agassi's bio if I didn't have my Kindle.
Bottom line, I love it, it's not replacing my real books it's just adding to my reading experience. I understand how some would see it as the end of real books but for me that is just not going to happen. I will be up in arms if/when real books are not published of SK's work, but for now I am content to read, on my Kindle, those books I never would have read in book form.