fountainfairfax
Brilliant_Rock
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2005
- Messages
- 1,199
That is my question....
I belong to a little local book club with a great group of ladies. All are FAR more voracious readers than I am, so I'm trying to catch up.
What often happens is I either delay going to Borders to buy the book or order on-line and it takes a while before I get it. I lose precious reading time. I think half of the time I've gone to meetings it's without having finished the book.
Three times in the last week I've added the 3G Kindle to my cart on Amazon and then I empty the cart. It's the $$ and then it's not the $$. I can spend the same amount on one splurge at Target and feel no remorse (although Bounty and cat food is hardly a splurge!) And I have the extra money, but I wonder is it really worth it if I only end up reading one book a month? I used to love reading but so many other things have gotten in the way and now most days magazines are as deep as my reading gets. At first I thought it would encourage me to read more but then I worry I really will only use it for that month's selection and it would take A LOT of paperbacks to equal the cost of a Kindle, cover w/light and then a zip around protective case for the whole thing so it doesn't get trashed in my bag or my car.
Some of my book club friends have Kindles, some do not. So the Kindle-Kooks (my nickname for them) are saying "go, go, go" and my old-school friends say "why change now?"
Today I went to Staples and happened across the standard wireless model- I kept going back and picking it up. It's amazing how thin & light weight it is. I keep thinking about how this month's selection would've been free (The Last Man by Mary Shelley,) but instead I found a copy on ebay this morning and paid for expedited shipping so I wouldn't get it 3 days before our next meeting. I imagine all the things I could get instantly & read at a moment's whim and then think of un-used exercise equipment, the knitting kit I bought, cookie cutters for those great treats decorated with royal icing that go unused and I wonder if there's a pattern here of buying things for a life I simply do not live.
I know there are FAR worse problems to have but does anyone care to weigh in with an opinion?
TIA!
I belong to a little local book club with a great group of ladies. All are FAR more voracious readers than I am, so I'm trying to catch up.
What often happens is I either delay going to Borders to buy the book or order on-line and it takes a while before I get it. I lose precious reading time. I think half of the time I've gone to meetings it's without having finished the book.
Three times in the last week I've added the 3G Kindle to my cart on Amazon and then I empty the cart. It's the $$ and then it's not the $$. I can spend the same amount on one splurge at Target and feel no remorse (although Bounty and cat food is hardly a splurge!) And I have the extra money, but I wonder is it really worth it if I only end up reading one book a month? I used to love reading but so many other things have gotten in the way and now most days magazines are as deep as my reading gets. At first I thought it would encourage me to read more but then I worry I really will only use it for that month's selection and it would take A LOT of paperbacks to equal the cost of a Kindle, cover w/light and then a zip around protective case for the whole thing so it doesn't get trashed in my bag or my car.
Some of my book club friends have Kindles, some do not. So the Kindle-Kooks (my nickname for them) are saying "go, go, go" and my old-school friends say "why change now?"
Today I went to Staples and happened across the standard wireless model- I kept going back and picking it up. It's amazing how thin & light weight it is. I keep thinking about how this month's selection would've been free (The Last Man by Mary Shelley,) but instead I found a copy on ebay this morning and paid for expedited shipping so I wouldn't get it 3 days before our next meeting. I imagine all the things I could get instantly & read at a moment's whim and then think of un-used exercise equipment, the knitting kit I bought, cookie cutters for those great treats decorated with royal icing that go unused and I wonder if there's a pattern here of buying things for a life I simply do not live.
I know there are FAR worse problems to have but does anyone care to weigh in with an opinion?
TIA!