I LOVE my new Kindle

OK, so I took the bite after I saw the Oprah Winfrey show on the awesomeness of Amazon's Kindle. Yes, I watch Oprah Winfrey and I love most of her advice and programs.

And boy am I happy about the decision to buy the Kindle. It's about three weeks that I have it and so far I've finished close to 5 books and I am reading a book that is about a 1,000 pages. This is something I've really missed doing since I was a young 'un. Reading a long long book. I had stopped reading them since it's so difficult to schlep them around. So now I'm back to reading books that are over 500 pages! Yay! And with Kindle I'm reading many books simultaneously.

My Kindle and I are inseparable.

Here are the pros and cons of the Kindle from my point of view:

The good:

• It has changed the way I read.
• I ended up reading three books this weekend simultaneously. I feel like I'm back in college!
• I could previously not do this since logging around 3 books is not practical at all. :-)
• There was a Kindle book I couldn't download from Amazon, I was able to download it through the Kindle device. It was available that way which I find it's weird.
• The Kindle is small enough that it fits in my purse and I can read it anywhere. Very Obvious.
• The best feature for me is that it has a dictionary. Which cuts down on my frustration when reading. I've already learned so many new words. Another reason I like this is that I'm reading a sixth grade level book for my son at night. And as soon as we come across a word he doesn't know he tells me to look it up! He is getting into the habit of looking up new words. I LOVE this!
• Before purchasing a book, you can download the first chapter to see if you like it. Because of this feature I ended up not buying a book. But then the very same feature led me to buy about three other books! I liked that. :-)
• Book are $9.99 or cheaper on the kindle! Wow! This thing will pay for it self.
• I'll be cutting down on book clutter at home. Another awesome WOW for me, the clutter queen.
• This is silly, but I love the screen saver on it.
• Another silly thing. The packaging that it came with was just simply Divine! Oh and it comes with a cover to protect your device.

The not so good:

• There are places in my house that I can not download books.
• I wish it had a light for reading at night time. I'm an insomniac so this would be a GREAT feature for me since I read a lot at night time.
• There is not enough keyboard shortcuts to get to the most used features Or at least I don't know them yet.
• Sometimes the scroll wheel feels clunky as I need to navigate through the menus. But I'm getting used to it.
• Reading it around water makes me nervous.
• Finally, not all the books I want are on Amazon but at this particular point in time it's not a big deal. I already have enough books to keep me happy.

I personally think Kindle has still a long ways to go for improvement. If you can wait another year and see where the technology is going with something like this then wait. I've already seen prototypes of the next generation of Kindle. So something better should be coming soon.

Let me know if you're buying a Kindle!