I’ve finally bonded with my Amazon Kindle even though I’ve had it for a few years and it’s been getting dusty in my antique desk. I’m a book lover, a book hauler on vacations (three to five works weigh down my suitcase on any given adventure), I pretty much lust for books all the time. I can’t stop reading, at breakfast, on the train, on the treadmill, in the middle of the night. The Youthful Adventurer was very excited to give me an early-generation Kindle a few years ago. I zestfully headed to Amazon and become way too addicted to one-click purchasing and downloading.
And then my Kindle sat and slept and remained uncharged for months at a time. Every now and then, I’d learn about a free book or great deal and download it post-haste. I’d read a paragraph or two and let the power slide off. I still carried three to five books with me whenever I went on a trip. I definitely wasn’t into downloading travel guides. I need to flip and mark and turn down pages and use the index and rip out stuff and tuck in cards and generally be a walking mess with a book.
Meanwhile, more and more people in my universe got newer, better, stronger, faster, brighter Kindles and professed their love for them. I remained neutral. I have one; I just don’t use it.
I’m partial to history books and historical fiction. I love the colors of the covers. I love to underline and write notes to myself and leave books about the house so I’ll pick up one when I have a few minutes to kill. I’m not going to carry my Kindle in my purse or my backpack or strap it to myself whenever I need it.
It sat in my desk and got dusty.
But then I saw a great Kindle deal by a writer I sorta-kinda know (in the sense that we belonged to the same online writer’s group and would occasionally interact), and she’s moved to novel writing, and now she’s moved to self-publishing a novel, and the Kindle edition is a good buy. So I bought it and the story hooked me and I couldn’t put my Kindle down for an entire weekend.
If I need a chick-lit fix and can find a good price for the Kindle version, it’s mine. It’s easy, it’s light, and I love it.
—Lori Tripoli
P.S. The book that made me my love my Kindle is Allison Winn Scotch’s The Theory of Opposites.
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