09.29.10

Amazon Kindle

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I have recently considered getting a Kindle. This is because I am a nerd and I love pretty gadgets. I am also a big nerd for reading. But the thing is, I love actual books as well and buy they obsessively whenever I go near a bookshop, so I’ve come to a bit of a problem. As I said before, I’m a nerd, so I’ve tried to solve this problem by listing reasons for and against buying one and put then putting the data into a graph for easy viewing.

So this is my list of reasons.

For getting a Kindle	For not getting a Kindle
It is pretty and amazing and I want one	It’s still not a book and I love the smell and feel of books
I usually take several books with me on long trips and this will be a lot lighter and compact	I wouldn’t be able to read it in the bath because I drop things
I could read long PDFs on it instead of an LCD screen which I don’t like reading from	But then again it might hurt my eyes anyway
I wouldn’t have to wait for books to arrive in the post, I could just download them	If it breaks I lose all my books D:
Free classics!	I like physics books, and I haven’t seen that many around in ebook form
It’s not really that expensive or massively over priced like most gadgets	I have no money anyway

So then I put it in this pie chart.

But it didn’t help much. It didn’t help at all really. That doesn’t really matter anyway because all I can think is “IT IS REALLY REALLY PRETTY AND I WANT ONE RIGHT NOW. BUUUUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYYY IIIITTTTTTTTTT. YOU NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD IIIIITTTTTT”

I need a job so I have money to spend on crap like this and not worry about it :( DAMN YOU ECONOMIC CLIMATE! *shakes fist at nearest available politician*

08.14.10

Something I never do

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The big post about my holiday that I said about might take a while. Turns out we took about 2000 photos… oops. So it might take a while to look through and pick out my favourites.

In the mean time, I’m going to blog about the book I’m reading, which you can see in my sidebar. I’m going to be blunt, and I don’t often just say this about a book. But it has to be said. It’s really boring. It started out okay. Then it got good when he committed the crime referenced in the title. That happened about 70 pages in. I’m up to page 256 now, and I swear, all that’s happened is him angst about it. And it’s a classic book, which means the language is pretty heavy going. Also the font is horrible. I don’t know if I want to carry on with it.

Which leaves me with a dilemma. Should I just give up on this book? I never give up on books. Okay, I did for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, but I hate classic romance books so they don’t count (strangely I like TV shows of them though). I’ll have that horrible feeling of incompleteness, and it’ll haunt me. I’ll feel a pang of guilt whenever I see my bookshelf. Because the other thing I never ever do is throw away books even if I don’t like them. I’d also like to read at least one book from the 1800s in my life, and this is the closest I’ve ever come to finishing one (except for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I don’t think that counts).

But then, on the other hand, it’ll probably take months to finish it. And I go back to school soon, I’ll have no time for reading then. I’ll be stuck with it for ages. And I have loads of other books to read, because I keep buying them and take forever to get round to reading them all. Also it’s really boring. Really, really boring. I’d be much happier moving onto another book, like Animal Farm. I’ve wanted to read that for ages.

Oh decisions!