Seeing as there is a 50/50 chance right now depending on a couple things and people that I might be in Bali for Christmas I didn’t think I was getting a Christmas present from my parents this year.  We were all out getting Adam luggage for his Christmas gift which he got already because Christmas gifts in my family are given sometime between August and December every year since I left home and my mom mentioned that I did get a present and I hadn’t even thought about it so I said I wanted a tripod but I got a Sony eBook Reader.

They actually bought three, my showing it to my mother off a friend’s photo stream turned out to be great for them because they can’t easily get books in Bali and can now hold up to 160 books each on their own readers.  We also have a family book club we are going to keep going over webcam so it all just fell into place.  I know that they are considered expensive but when you think about how many books it holds, the fact you can still get free books from the library for it and that it comes with 100 free classic novels (if you buy it before September 20) for an avid reader it is dirt cheap.

I have my third fifty dollar Chapters gift card coming in the mail this year which I will be spending on paper books.  I think it will be a long long long long time before any electronic reader could or will take over paper books but for anyone who reads as much as I do and more I highly recommend it.

No more packing four to eight books every time I hop a plane.  No more trying to decide what I am going to feel like reading before I leave.  I have only added four books to the eBook so far, Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte and The Turn of the Screw Henry James.  With the 100 free classics I can’t see buying any books for it for a while; I have a feeling I’m going to be on a classics kick for some time.  My only complaint, even though I completely understand why is that the free classics list does not contain any book that has been banned for even one minute, yet you can get the book of Mormon which I just don’t consider a classic in ANY sense of a the word.  No Orwell no Salinger, etc. and etc.  I also wish the USB port had a cover but it doesn’t.  I generally have my current book in a bag within my bag which will hopefully protect it from getting a dirty port.  It comes with a really cool magnetic brown cover.

I have kissed my eBook and petted it like a pet and hugged it because I love it. A lot.  The reader is not only pretty much the raddest thing I own now but it opens up the door for me to continue collecting my favourite novels in first printing first edition hard covers!! I’ve mentioned before I spent over a hundred dollars on my covered in plastic copy of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon and I bought the cheapest one I could find and hoped it would show up in the condition promised and thankfully it did.

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