WIth Christmas approaching, I’ve been asked by several people about the Kindle. Why? Well, I got Cyndi one last year for Christmas. I liked it so much, I ordered one for my birthday.
Why would I buy a kindle over another e-reader? I have more in this post, but here is a summary:
- Price
- Connectivity
- International Connectivity
What does this mean? If you are going to buy a 3rd generation kindle
, get the 3g version. Why? Free internet access from wherever you are. This one thing is what differentiates the kindle from other ereaders.
If you are worried about book selection, don’t worry. Amazon has tons of free books (check every Thursday and you’ll find new free books). If you don’t want to get books from Amazon, you can get anything in a variety of formats (basically the kindle supports every format EXCEPT epub). But, I doubt you’ll have to go anywhere but Amazon…of the 700+ books in our archive, we’ve spent < $20 on books.
Image from srharris via flickr
[Update 12-02-2010 06:04:43] Edited the Kindle link to use my new affiliate link. For information why, see this post.
[Update 2012-12-26 16:26:55] Edited some internal links to clean things up
continues the Navy Justice Series by Don Brown. This book picks up after a trial of several aviators. There are two stories running in parallel that Don Brown brings together in the end of the book. Overall, a good fast clean read, My only complaint with Don Brown is too little detail. He weaves a good story, but doesn’t focus on any one thing while he writes. But, I am a John Grisham fan and always like how he makes the trial central character in his books.
picks up after a huge trial. Again, Don Brown proves to be a good author writing a fast paced entertaining book. However, again, unlike John Grisham, don’t expect details of the trials to abound. Also, unlike Tom Clancy, don’t expect there to be pages devoted to details of military hardware or operations. Again, Don Brown makes mention of his characters Christian books, but it is just a part of the characters lives.
is the first book in Don Brown’s Navy Justice series. (For my reviews on 
while I was poking around on Amazon’s website. This first volume covers his life up through the Mexican American war. It is a good easy read and has been educational so far. The only complaint I have is that Amazon has multiple copies–free and for a price–editions of this work. I thought I had downloaded all of the parts of the correct edition; however, when i finsihed this part, I didn’t have part 2 of this edition (although I had it from another edition). This cost me some reading time because I had to wait for internet access so i could find the correct next edition of this book.
simply because it was free. It was a decent fast read. It had some bad language in it, but the story is good. I haven’t read the rest of the series, so I’m in a lurch about where Patterson actually takes it. What’s the book about? Imagine being a cross between bird and human….that’s right, a human with wings and the ability to fly (a common dream of many people I would think). But, imagine if that came about through some kind of experimentation….. This series appears to put a group of kids in this situation. it deals with them while they are run off from their hideout by erasers and then try to find out more about their own history.
. I started reading this just because it looked interesting. At first, I didn’t know if I would like it (it is too much like the