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I got my first Kindle on St. Patrick's Day in 2010. That certainly was a "Luck Of the Irish" purchase for me. I've gone from spending $100 or more per month on paperbacks, and weekly visits to the library, to being able to download books, many free, in the comfort of my own home. I was hospitalized for nearly 2 weeks about a month after I got my Kindle. It was so nice to have an assortment of reading material at hand without having to hound nurses, visitors and friends for books or magazines. LOVE MY KINDLE!!
Thanks so much for your website. Love it. I've had my kindle almost a year now and was hooked withing 5 minutes of owning it.
Last April, my husband was on his way home from work when he was hit from behind by a drunk driver. After a sleepless night of wondering where he was, we found out that he had been airlifted to a hospital over 2 hours from our home.
My children and I packed our bags and drove to where he was. For over two weeks, every day we would take a shuttle from our hotel to the ICU floor, camping out for twelve hour stretches and watching over my husband as he tried to regain consciousness from his brain injury.
My kids, ages 10 and 8 at the time, were completely bored sitting in the waiting room all day. They quickly tired of the books I had brought to entertain them, and I knew buying more heavy books was not the answer. My back was killing me by then. So on our fifth night, I asked the shuttle driver to stop by Target on our way back to the hotel. I bought a Kindle.
I thought I would learn how to use the Kindle, and then give it to my kids to share. Well, funny how that works because by the time I figured out how to use it, I knew it was going to be mine. We went back to Target and got a Nintendo DSi for my kids so that I could keep my Kindle. Even though this horrible car accident has been the worst thing to ever happen to my family, I can say one good thing came from it. My Kindle. I'm not sure if I would have ever gotten a Kindle if I hadn't been stuck hours from home with two kids to entertain and my poor back about to go out on me.
It has only been 9 months since we became Kindlers, but now we are proud owners of 4 Kindles: two Kindle keyboards and two Kindle Fires. My husband's brain injury has made it difficult for him to read, so the larger font choices on a Kindle are priceless to him. And yes, my kids each have their own Kindle now. :)
Two Christmases ago I asked for a Kindle, I received an ereader but it definitely wasn't a Kindle, the battery life was so bad I couldn't get through an average length book without tethering it to the wall, not exactly the ereading experience I wanted.
This Christmas I received a shiny new Kindle Keyboard, what a marvelous piece of technology it is and the battery life is amazing, no more reading tethered to the wall for me.
Due to the price of good paperbacks in Canada I tried to limit myself to a couple of books a month, now thanks to free reads, cheap reads and lower prices on Amazon than I was paying for paper copies here I can read as much as I want. I also love the fact that my ebooks don't take up any shelf space and I never have to dust them, sure works for me.
I got my K2 as a Christmas gift from my husband in 2009. I had been considering getting one for almost a year but hesitated because of the price and my love for physical books.
I was addicted within a week and have only read two physical books since, one of them a gift.
Between indie authors and freebies, I have over 5,000 ebooks in my account at Amazon, plus hundreds more from site like Smashwords. I love being able to read anything I want to anytime I want. Instead of being limited to the bestsellers sold at stores, I have immediate access to over a million books, many of them $2.99 or less. On the one hand, I spend far less per book than I used to, but spend more per month because there are so many great books as such a low price. My average cost is something like $.58.
I just finished the first book of a trilogy by an author who self-published her backlist. I loved it and had the second and third books in the trilogy on my Kindle in under a minute - fabulous!
I also love my Kindle's library access. I can check out a book almost as fast as purchasing one from Amazon without ever leaving my home. No more worrying about library hours, traffic, or weather.
Lastly, my husband appreciates that books no longer pile up around the house. I doubt I'll get rid of what I have anytime soon, but they are no longer replicating.
My Kindle was the best gift ever!
I have had my kindle for less then a year a perfect gift from my awesome sister. I have almost 400 books on it already thats in large part to your site. 98% of them I paid less the $2.00 for! :)
I went back and checked - I bought my first Kindle on Nov 20, 2007, when it first came out. Today I use a Kindle Keyboard, which I think is my favorite ever - don't care for the Touch screen one. My old K1 is still being used - it is on loan to a friend's 12 yr old daughter to see if she really likes it before they buy a new one for her. That old K1 is a work-horse. :)
Thanks for the lovely story of how you became a guide to the great cheap reads for Kindle. I'm one of the newbies, having pre-ordered the new Touch.
I have 2600+ paper books in my house, and I thought I'd never take to e-readers. But I started reading on my laptop about a year ago, and eventually discovered the benefits. I still read more paper books than e-books, and I'm also a devotee of audiobooks. I currently have 200+ e-books, and the total seems to grow Daily.