I finally own a Kindle! Like I said I said in a previous post, I'm the last one on the bandwagon. I first heard about the Kindle back in college when I was the personal secretary to a technology professor. He showed me the promo video for it before it even was on the market. It was like $400 back then. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever but thought it would be sad to lose the new book smell and the ability to see the thickness of how much I'd already read change. I also could never see myself spending $400 on a piece of technology. My laptop at the time had only cost $99. I'm a techno cheapskate.

Then I noticed the Kindle getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. One of my 6th graders got one for Christmas. As I was buying textbooks for my grad classes I noticed that some of my textbooks were available for Kindle. My husband downloaded Kindle for PC and started purchasing his textbooks for Kindle. Then wonder of wonder, miracles of miracles...Kindle offered a new model for only $114. The only downside is that it has advertising on it. Who cares? You barely even notice them.

So, I put it on my Amazon wishlist hoping that my dad would pick up on the hint and buy me one for my birthday. He did! He's still pretty skeptical about it because he's a techno cheapskate like me. (Hey, I learned from the best.) He thinks I'll never use it. I'll show him. I plan to flaunt it in his face when he comes to visit me in a week. Maybe he'll buy one for himself.

I've already downloaded several free classics. I, unlike the most of the world, actually do read classic literature for fun. I need to finish my paper copy of a Tale of Two Cities and then I'll have to decide which Kindle book to start first. I'm thinking the first one will be The Scarlet Letter because it's a real crying shame that I graduated from college with an English degree and have never read it. I could probably ace a test over it though, because I know the premise of the story and even know the characters' names.

I'm really looking forward to buying able to buy books cheaper and then not having to store them. My apartment is teeny and my hubby and I are both bibliophiles. I'm also looking forward to reading outside at my favorite park. The electronic ink technology allows you to read off of the screen without a glare. It's pretty incredible. I told my husband that I might just buy a monthly train pass to the large, crime-filled city near my house and then just ride the train and read my Kindle so I can feel like I'm a cool city girl (even though I'm a super-nerdy country girl.)