Kindle

[fractured_sun]

Have just collected my Kindle. Only had it for an hour but am already in love. Am slightly worried about howmuch I might spend when I have the option to buy and instantly receive  so many books, but am currently going through all the free downloads like they're going out of fashion.

The browser option is pretty useful too, it's easier to navigate and view than my  mobile phone wbich is my otehr internet option when on hour long bus journeys.

In short so far am really happy I bought it, and that I paid the extra for 3G. Happy, happy....... Goes off to work out the best way to get fanfic onto it.

Comments

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

The only plus point is the hour to read or play on my kindle before work. The really annoying thing is if I could actually drive it would take me half an hour (at most) door to door. Really wish I had bothered to get my driving licence sometime in the last 12 years I've had to get round to it.

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

I'll have to admit that I don't know anyone over the age of 13 that can't drive. (f2f that is)

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

I've been promising myself that I will have learnt before I turn 30, that gives me.... 5 months, doable but well i've been intending to get round to it for a while and haven't

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

Do you drive at all? Or have you never been behind a wheel? Are there driving schools there?

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

I started to learn at 18 but then stopped when went off to university. Honestly it hasn't really been a problem until this last year, when studying and then working at Uni's a car's actually more trouble than's it worth. It's easier (and cheaper) to walk, parking at both the universities I studied in (and later worked for) was like gold dust, you had to live miles away or be very senior to qualify (and what's the point in driving if you have to park in a side street at almost the same distance as your house is anyway).

There are driving schools here, but learning has got so expensive in the last .... decade (wow where did the time go?) an hour's lesson used to about 15 pounds and now it's more like 30. And I'm the sort of person who will need a lot of lessons to become even close to competent.

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

I do understand that but I'm so American. *g* The local junior college has huge parking lots and every student has a car. Most don't live on campus and so they drive in from all over. The students who live in married student housing often have two cars.

I converted 30 pounds to dollars. Thats $50!! Wow!

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

It's not cheap and it will probably take me a lot of lessons.