Me and The Kindle Five Months In

I mentioned back in January that I now have a Kindle , compliments of my sister, who passed hers on to me when she upgraded .

 

 

For some reason even though she already activated her new one, the old one still had all her loaded books. Some kind of Kindle loophole I guess, but a total bonus for me as it meant I essentially got a year's worth of books! (Luckily we do have similar tastes in reading material.)So while I am pretty excited about having all these books to read, and I have been using it pretty much daily (I am a read before falling asleep kind of person), I am even more sure now that real books are better. For me I mean. Here's why

1. It's totally in my head, but because I am reading everything on the same device, I feel like I have been reading just one very long book since January! Sometimes I even get confused and wonder what happened to a plot line or character before remembering that was from another book. Or maybe it's just age, or the fact that I am reading at night when tired?
2. I really miss being able to flip to the back cover of the book to reread the description and promo blurbs.
3. I feel like I don't have a real sense of the book because there's no cover art to look at!
4. You know how when you're reading a book, and something seems wack, or you forget something and you have to flip a few pages back to double check something you might have missed? Yeah, can't really quickly do that with a Kindle.
5. Call me Kindle challenged but I don't get how the locations work....why can't I just click a button to go to a certain page?
6. I miss the feel and smell of paper. So there.

It's just not the same.

I am happy that I have it, and I know it will be great when next I travel. I do like the instant gratification idea of being able to purchase a book and have it immediately if you need it in a pinch. I will probably buy other books for it eventually. Most likely not novels though, maybe more non-fiction or how-to type books.

If you know me, you know that I am a huge technophile. For example while I love paper scrapping, I also do it digitally (I am bi-scraptual!). I guess I just feel like books are sacred, and I worry a bit about where things are headed. Or I am just slowly becoming a curmudgeon.

Do you have a Kindle or other e-reader? What do you love about it? What don't you? Lets's chat in the comments!