My name is VT100, and I have a reading problem. For a while, I coped by donating all my used books to the library. Just so they didn't clutter up the house. Then for father's day, I was given a Sony e-book reader. Basically a high-contrast, high-res B&W screen with the capacity to hold about 150 books, and just enough buttons to let you pick a book, turn the page, and change the font size. It came with 1 free new book download, plus 100 free downloads from their "classics" library: A set of books that are old enough to not have copyright issues. I started going wild, downloading books I had always meant to read, but never got around to. Then I found other websites where people have digitized copyright-free books and made them available. Books that have been out of print for decades are available for download. Enormous amounts of stuff. Think kid in an infinite candy store. So now I have this hand-held thing with 50ish books and growing, and I can still only read one thing at a time. I don't leave a trail of finished books, but I'll be reading for years just the stuff I have in the queue now. I am both excited and scared of the thing.
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BUT, yesterday a friend told me about Kindle. (A coincidence or an evil master plan?) Apparently Amazon has it/makes it? Sounds like your Sony thing. OMG. We just looked each other like, do we want to go there? The answer was YES, but I too am scared. Think it's about $300 now. I'll wait until the price goes down a bit or until I'm employed full-time with all the bells and whistles. Air conditioner and Kindle. Goodbye cruel world.