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missroserose) wrote2014-06-20 10:51 pm
missroserose) wrote2014-06-20 10:51 pm
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The Bibliophile's Lament
Recently, I was considering my overflowing to-read shelves, the product of that all-too-common mixture of a fondness for buying books and not enough time spent reading them. At the time, I had a Good Idea: perhaps I should institute a rule for the next year or so, where I only get to buy one book for every two or three that I finish reading. That way I could simultaneously cull the herd a bit and motivate myself to spend more time reading. As with so many Good Ideas that I have, I decided to mull it over a bit, which was, in truth, mostly an excuse to stick it on the back burner without seriously thinking about instituting it.
Just today, I got a package in the mail containing a Kindle and a pretty pink cover - a birthday present from my mother.
Did I mention I had a whole list of inexpensive indie titles people had recommended to me that I'd been intending to purchase when I had a Kindle to read them on?
And that I'd just gotten my first newsletter from Smart Bitches, pointing out titles they recommended that were on sale?
Needless to say, my Good Idea is looking pretty stillborn at this point.
On the upside though, I have a Kindle Paperwhite! And I'm slightly chagrined to acknowledge that it is, in fact, superior to the equivalent-product-niche Nook in every way. Better quality screen, better light, Whispernet, Goodreads integration, vocabulary function, better-quality case, et cetera, et cetera...sigh. You win this round, Bezos.
Somewhat entertainingly, when I was adding it to my wishlist a couple months back, I was slightly torn on the cover color - they had the fuchsia pink, and also a very nice royal purple. Eventually I decided on the pink because it was brighter...and in the interim between putting it on my list and actually receiving it, I've acquired a purse in what's turned out to be precisely the same shade of pink. So I look just a touch matchy-matchy now. Ah well.
(Yay! I have a Kindle!)
Just today, I got a package in the mail containing a Kindle and a pretty pink cover - a birthday present from my mother.
Did I mention I had a whole list of inexpensive indie titles people had recommended to me that I'd been intending to purchase when I had a Kindle to read them on?
And that I'd just gotten my first newsletter from Smart Bitches, pointing out titles they recommended that were on sale?
Needless to say, my Good Idea is looking pretty stillborn at this point.
On the upside though, I have a Kindle Paperwhite! And I'm slightly chagrined to acknowledge that it is, in fact, superior to the equivalent-product-niche Nook in every way. Better quality screen, better light, Whispernet, Goodreads integration, vocabulary function, better-quality case, et cetera, et cetera...sigh. You win this round, Bezos.
Somewhat entertainingly, when I was adding it to my wishlist a couple months back, I was slightly torn on the cover color - they had the fuchsia pink, and also a very nice royal purple. Eventually I decided on the pink because it was brighter...and in the interim between putting it on my list and actually receiving it, I've acquired a purse in what's turned out to be precisely the same shade of pink. So I look just a touch matchy-matchy now. Ah well.
(Yay! I have a Kindle!)