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This made me smile today.  For whatever reason, it just really summed up a lot of things for me.  It’s been a tough couple of weeks.  Work has been crazy, my friends are feeling pressure, I had food poisoning and I really feel just out of sync for some reason.  It’s just those times that poetry does me the most good.  It sweeps in and and lets me know that I’m not the only person who feels that way.  I’m not alone in my fixations and sometimes, that’s really all we need to feel better. So thanks Mr. Ginsberg for feeling the way you do.
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My Kindle 2 has arrived and I have to say, I absolutely love it!  First impressions go a long ways and the packaging that arrived from Amazon was reminiscent of the many lovely gadgets I have opened from my good friends at Apple.  Sleek black and white packaging with liberal usage of fonts to give it that literary quality.  I immediately plugged in the Kindle 2 to charge.  About 2 hours later and voila, I am ready to read!  I gingerly flipped the switch on the top of the Kindle and proceeded to immediately go for the next book in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.  Also as a bonus, I received the first two books in the series for the bargain basement price of $6.39.  That’s approximately 2000 pages of quality reading material.  Wow….  It took less than 5 minutes for both books to show up on my home page, via Amazon’s 3G Whispernet network which comes free with the Kindle.  So let’s take a look at the pros and cons of the device after my first month of reading. More »

As many of you all know, I am an avid reader.  As such, I am extremely emotionally attached to my books.  They represent periods of my life, meetings with favorite authors, lazy reads on vacation, times of trouble, in essence… they are old friends.  So what on earth has possessed me to go wireless with my reading habits?  To be honest, I’m running out of room.  There are piles of books all over the apartment, I’ve had periods where books have been cleared out but they keep creeping back in.  I was doing the library thing for a while but it left me wanting.  It wasn’t enough to borrow the book, I wanted to keep it.  If I take my reading wireless, I can carry up to 1500 books in my purse.  Hooray!

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