I've been anti e-readers since I first heard of them so it was a surprise to find myself bitten with the must-have bug last weekend and in true impulse buyer mode, I bought a kindle...
Look how neat and pretty it looks on my overflowing book shelf of read but must keep books. And it's already filling up with goodness. So far I have 6 novels, one short story collection that has been living on my computer for some time (looking at you Mr Polson), one very special story collection that I can't talk about (but just did in a way, I suppose), and three samples downloaded from Amazon. Actually, that doesn't sound like much at all.
Now, my pretty little kindle doesn't have a name. For a short time I was calling it lemon as in a wasted purchase (which I almost hoped it would be, but it isn't). Then I looked up 'lemon' in the urban dictonary. Oh dear, I can't call it that. Gulp! So I now need another name for it. Suggestions welcome.
To continue the madness, I should note that my dictaphone is called Walter and my laptop Mr Grim. I suspect I'm mad. I suspect you suspect I'm mad too. I suspect we're all right.
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Welcome to the dark side! Gizmo and I are getting along nicely. We should schedule a Kindle play date.
Write1Sub1
It's suprisingly pretty on the dark side. I'm surprised.
It's not ugly, I'll say that. I'm still waiting for an ereader to come along under $100.
Hmmm, it looks like a George or a Henry to me. :)
Okay. I'm buying one. You've convinced me.
I've been on the fence, too, but my bookshelf is looking rather, er...overflowing.
In early October I quietly crossed over into Kindle-land. My excuse to justify the purchase was that I could read my PDF review copies on it rather than sit at my computer.
I sort of hated myself for buying it for a good couple weeks. but that's all over now. :-)
Don't forget to check out the free e-book sites like Project Gutenberg. :-)
Gef, they are rather expensive. This wasn't even under a £100. I convinced myself it would save me money in the long run.
Both excellent names, Damien. Unfortunately my vacuum is Henry and there's a George in the family.
I'm sure your wife has no problem with you buying lots and lots of books, Aaron, but I keep declaring I won't buy anymore until I've halved my to-read-pile. Now I can still declare that and no one will know I've added another dozen to my kindle.
I hadn't even heard of Project Gutenberg, Anthony.
I have a ton of ebooks that I haven't read--they've amassed over the last few years and it's driving me batty. Today... today I join you in Pretty Land.
Wonder what I'll name mine! (I tend to name my stuff after artists lately. My computer is Goya.)
Inspiration hits, Katey. Maybe I could call mine Dali, because the fact I have an e-reader is surreal. Sorted.
Kayla the Kindle.
wv: prquere
Oh Cate, why hast thou forsaken LJ? I missed you over there, came here and saw you've been posting all this time.
As for the kindle, he looks like an Ichabod to me.
v-word = makingl
I believe it was the same day you got your Kindle that my mom bought herself a Nook. She's been going through paroxysms of guilt about buying it, but she likes it so far. I charged up my poor Sony reader and have been hugging it to console it. It doesn't get used much.
The Kindle looks a lot nicer than the first versions they had, which looked like toys. Ugly toys. And there's nothing wrong with Lemon as a name! Think of lemonade and lemon meringue pie and lemon sorbet.
Robert :D
Sorry, Mike. I only read and comment on a couple of blogs over there and got tired of posting and decided to just use my LJ account to comment on your blog and one or two others. I may go back. Then again, I may not.
I'm loving my kindle, Kate. But yes, oh the guilt.
I'll add this blog to my RSS bar now I know you won't be on LJ. No probs. I don't blame you for not double-posting - I find posting once a chore. :)
I should really put a note on my LJ blog to say I've gone. I've only posted there once in a month and that was only to promote Aaron's book.
Simon's a good, solid name, I always feel... what do you mean, that's not allowed? Satan..? OK, maybe not. Seriously, I'd say it looks like a Clive, or possibly a Percy. I think I'll go and have a lie down.
(v-word = plocater. Which sounds interesting.)
Calling it Simon would be too weird. And imagine how confusing my FB status reports would be. You and SMJones would think I was talking about you. Goodness. Clive's a good name. Percy was my nickname in junior school. Isn't that an awful nickname?
How the blazes did you end up being called Percy? Or shouldn't I ask..?!
Maybe you should just use a v-word from blogger? The one for this post is 'bictinct'. But I once had one called Sheifixe, which sounds sort of exotic and possibly a bit ninja-ish. Or something.
Hm. Time to check the Yellow Pages. There might be a shop here in Swinton that sells lives... ;-)
Ha! My nickname was thanks to Percy Thrower and his Blue Peter Garden. Gardner... Get it!!! :(
Ha! It could've been worse... Course it could. somehow.
I was 'Penfold' at school, thanks to Dangermouse. At my last job I was referred to as 'Chewbacca' or 'the Wookiee' owing to general hairiness. I didn't point out that I was a bit short for Chewie; they might have started naming me after one of those blasted Ewoks, and then I would've had to shoot somebody :D
(v-word = adonines. Hmm...)
Ron Chapleby.
Ah, Penfold was cute.
It's under consideration, Natalie.
You're not mad. I often give names to objects too :)
Still can't come at the e-reader. Just like Twitter, I've somehow managed to avoid it.
Tell me how you like it! I still haven't crossed over to the dark side, but I'm interested. :D
-Mercedes
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