Thursday, October 29, 2009

My Kindle - 2

I've been using the Kindle for the last 2 weeks and I can safely say that I'm very happy with it and wished that I had gotten it earlier. The only downside is that I'm suing the American version and not the international version so I can't get instant download which frankly is no big deal.

With all the free books, I'm not too sure when I'm going to buy another new book but after reading some books from the Baen Free Library, I'll definitely get the new Honor Harrington series by David Weber and the Paladin of the Shadows series by John Ringo.

When I first came across the Baen Free Library, I've questioned the wisdom of posting free books online and wondered whether how it'll affect the book sales but after reading all the free books, I've come to realised that they actually made a good move. By releasing the older books for free, they'll definitely attract new readers to their new books and for people like me, I'll definitely pay for the new books by David Weber and John Ringo which I would never had in the past if not for reading all those free books. I've actually gotten hook on their books and have been finishing a book every 2 days since getting my hands on them.

I bought the Kindle together with the M-Edge leather cover and it's definitely a good move. It protects the Kindle and the leather looks nice and expensive, not cheap like the other stuff. Even my wife said that it looked nice too. It comes in various colour and being the conservative chap like I am, I got the luminous orange one. (No, I actually got the brown one, I think it's called cocoa brown or something like that)

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