- It's tiny, but in a good way. It's much slimmer than I had expected, yet it's hefty enough to feel like it's well made and to mimic the weight of a book. Solid yay!
- It has free 3G wireless all over the freakin' world including Japan!!!!!! So fucking cool I don't even know where to start. I can check my e-mail (slow as shit because of the screen loading system) from a moving car WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT. (This is a feature I can hardly get over.) I can also order new books from anywhere and start reading them instantly. ROCK!
- Reading on it is just almost pleasant as reading a real book in most ways (it is exactly as easy on the eyes as paper which was my main concern). Is reading a real book better? Yes (there are some things about holding a physical book that can't really be explained and can never be trumped). But not by so much that I would forgo the portability 1000s of books gained by the kindle.
- It goes everywhere! Not that books don't go everywhere but it goes everywhere and is MANY books at once.
- It does PDFs. Sometime in a recent-ish software update my microsoft word gained the ability to convert to PDF (I know this was possible for lots of other people at earlier times, but for the version of windows I have it was relatively new.) I used this to turn some of my work-in-progress novels into PDFs in order to have them around as references while I continue writing by hand. This is DOPE! It means I can work far far away from my oh-so-distracting laptop. Sweetness!
- The screen savers are pictures of famous authors and other cool black and white images. I love this! (Very minor plus, but still cool.)
- I've run out of listable items in my head but I'm sure there are more. Take it from me, the Kindle rocks!
Ok. So, that list completed, I should probably talk about drawbacks to the Kindle. The only one that I've encountered so far is one that probably won't affect most people, but here goes: You have to have a credit card (or debit card that is visa/mastercard etc.) signed up to an amazon.com one click account in order to buy books for the Kindle. This is perhaps a minor inconvenience for some people. For me, it's a MAJOR pain in the ass. Why? Because due to me being on the other side of the world and my bank being dumber-than-the-dumbest-pile-of-dog-droppings-ever-crapped-out-by-the-dumbest-dog-with-irritated-bowels-ever-to-walk-the-earth stupid, I can't the card information for my OWN fucking bank account and consequently can't pay for anything in dollars other than by check. Sigh. Obviously, this is not Amazon.com's fault. But, they would make my life immeasurably easier if they would allow me to buy my books with my checking information instead. Le sigh.
Whew. Glad I got that off my chest. Moving on!
So, I've been writing up a storm the past few days. My latest novel (the one I started back in November) has been put on hold for a while because I lost confidence in it as a story. Thanks to rereading it lately (all 444 pages of it after I put it onto my Kindle) and realizing I desperately wanted to know what happened next (always a good sign) I have taken up the pen again and for the last few days have been clipping along (at least as far as writing by hand goes). So, that's a very exciting development. I'm looking forward to getting through to the end and then going back and taking a machete to the beginning. In rereading it, I realized that while I do love the story and it's well worth continuing, I wrote some epic sections of drivel. Oops.
With that said, I will give up this post and move onto my other writing. My characters await and I am already up long past my bedtime, best to visit them before I go to sleep though or they may well haunt my dreams. Wouldn't want that. Cheeky bastards.
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