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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2008, 02:45:21 PM » |
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I have had mine for 9 months and definetely would buy it again. I ordered in January and got it in February just in time for my birthday.-I love being able to just go online and order what books I want and have them almost instantly.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2008, 02:47:11 PM » |
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Not only would I buy it again, but I want to buy it for everyone I know. If only I had the money to do that! I think everyone should have one!!
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2008, 03:00:57 PM » |
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I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. I also think everyone should have one. I've convinced my Dad to get one for my mom for Christmas and my daughter will be getting one from Santa. All of will be registered to the same account so we can share books.
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2008, 03:02:50 PM » |
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Bought it in August, and I'd buy it again in a heartbeat.
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2008, 03:09:39 PM » |
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Not only would I buy it again, but I want to buy it for everyone I know. If only I had the money to do that! I think everyone should have one!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2008, 03:12:59 PM » |
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Got mine in April and then bought one for my husband in June (he was starting to get a little toooo interested in mine and there are some toys I am not willing to share!). Realized a few weeks ago that I have reached the point where it is difficult to even remember Life Before Kindle. I am addicted to this thing.
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2008, 03:14:22 PM » |
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I got mine in August. Gertie K is my new best friend and I'd definitely adopt her again.
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2008, 03:15:49 PM » |
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I had mine a month and would absolutely buy it again! Now I wish I could afford to get one for my husband, my mom, and my daughters!! (Then they might understand more when I keep wanting to slip away to read!)
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2008, 03:18:07 PM » |
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Kindle is 10 days old today and I would definitely buy again.
I just wish my parents could have had this amazing thing in their lives (Mom has passed and Dad has severe dementia). They were both avid readers and would have been thrilled with this technology. Actually makes me sad when I think about it as reading was such a huge part of my family life growing up and as a result I have a great emotional attachment to the very act of reading.
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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2008, 03:29:26 PM » |
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I got my Kindle in May. I only wish that I would have ordered it in Dec. instead of wasting 4 months
asking everyone what they knew about them.
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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2008, 03:35:42 PM » |
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I bought one and several days later, another.
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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2008, 03:41:43 PM » |
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Mine arrived Nov 6th and I would buy again. Would be lost without it because it feels like I've had it forever. Wish I could buy one for every reader I know.
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« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2008, 03:45:50 PM » |
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I let Oprah help pay for my Kindle, sort of. I love it and would miss it terribly. I wish I could afford to give my niece and two nephews one for Christmas. My gr8 neph. age 8 is already borrowing mine. I don't let him leave my side though.
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« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2008, 03:48:55 PM » |
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With out a doubt I would buy it again. I have my for almost 8 months, and Faith going almost ever were with me. I think I would be lost with at Faith.
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« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2008, 03:51:16 PM » |
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I lied a little, I chose 1-year+ (and I would buy it again), but it won't be one year until Thursday.
Can I be forgiven for a little white lie?
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« Reply #18 on: November 17, 2008, 04:37:30 PM » |
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I got mine in May for my birthday and I would definitely buy it again.
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« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2008, 01:07:08 AM » |
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I've had mine since January and I wouldn't know what to do without it now.
I just wish there was someone else in the family that liked to read as much
as I do so I could buy them one. I'd do it in a minute. Most of them think
I'm nuts carrying this thing around with me.
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« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2008, 01:21:58 AM » |
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Still awaiting mine...
As I said in some long lost other thread, I think Amazon could give away Kindles and still make a fortune off their book sales. Maybe a limit of 2 per household with proof that more than one person lives there.
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« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2008, 02:08:36 AM » |
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You just touch a tender spot in my heart, Xia... My mom still reads, but her mind and eye sight are beginning to fail and my dad stopped reading when the dementia got worse. He just watches tv now. I got my love of reading from them. Books were always a big part of our lives. I see this love of reading being passed on to my grandchildren and it warms my heart!
Goodness, just goes to show just how special the love of books and reading is. You and I are complete strangers and yet we have something so significant in common. (I love this board!  ) I did/do my best to pass the love of reading on to mine, too. In fact, I'll never forget when my teenage son ******************************************. That just blew me away. Gosh, I'd sure like to get that book on Kindle as I've never actually had the chance to read it. Edited: To remove personal information. |
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« Reply #22 on: November 18, 2008, 05:38:20 AM » |
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6 months to 1 year and would buy it again!! I'm with Jen and Leslie...If I could afford to do so, I'd be buying them for all my friends and family!! |
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« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2008, 06:27:29 AM » |
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Angela, Xia -- you touched my heart, too. I lost both parents late last year, my Mom in Sept and my Dad in Dec, and both of them were avid readers. I know it's due to them that my sister and I read as much as we do, and when I got my Kindle I immediately thought of both of them. My Mom was never very computer-literate, but she could easily have managed the Kindle. And it would have helped her get through those chemo sessions, and the after-chemo not-feeling-so-great days.
Sigh. I do miss them, and I wish I could share my Kindle with them.
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« Reply #24 on: November 18, 2008, 07:31:01 AM » |
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2 months & I would most definitely buy again, I also wish I could afford to buy for friend's and family.
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« Reply #25 on: November 18, 2008, 07:40:21 AM » |
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7 months and would most definitely buy it again!! It is officially one of my can't live without it items!
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« Reply #26 on: November 18, 2008, 08:03:41 AM » |
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I can believe it will only be a month on Saturday. How is that possible? It seems like I've had my "Ramona" for much longer than that. I simply can't live without it. I take her everywhere with me. The one time I did leave her at home I spent and ETERNITY (15 minutes) at the car wash waiting for my car to get done - an impulse stop- If I had known that I was going, I would have made sure that I had her with me. As someone who carried a book with her EVERYWHERE she went --sometimes several if the one i was currently reading was getting low on pages-- I love being able to travel light. I can take Ramona with me and have as many different books as I want. No more books rolling around in the car waiting to get read, or having been read and not removed yet. No more stacks of books all over the house in various states of being read. No more asking my husband if he moved my book only to have to give a physical description of the one that I'm looking for. No more finishing a book in the evening and having do drive half an hour to get to a book store that sells the next in the series. -Living in a city you'd think that there would be a book store near me. I could go on and on.
Would I buy Kindle again? ABSOLUTLY!!!! And NO WAY would I give her up now.
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« Reply #27 on: November 18, 2008, 09:15:41 AM » |
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I agree, definitely a "can't live without item."
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« Reply #28 on: November 18, 2008, 09:24:45 AM » |
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I've had mine almost a month now and I don't leave home without it!
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« Reply #29 on: November 18, 2008, 09:36:37 AM » |
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Angela, Xia -- you touched my heart, too. I lost both parents late last year, my Mom in Sept and my Dad in Dec, and both of them were avid readers. I know it's due to them that my sister and I read as much as we do, and when I got my Kindle I immediately thought of both of them. My Mom was never very computer-literate, but she could easily have managed the Kindle. And it would have helped her get through those chemo sessions, and the after-chemo not-feeling-so-great days.
Sigh. I do miss them, and I wish I could share my Kindle with them.
Khabita, I am so sorry for your loss. Your post touched my heart, too. ((((big hugs))) |
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« Reply #30 on: November 18, 2008, 10:20:16 AM » |
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I've had mine for a month now. We ordered one for hubby a few days ago. I would absolutely, positively, without a doubt, in a New York minute order one again!!!!
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« Reply #31 on: November 18, 2008, 03:24:01 PM » |
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I've had my Kindle almost 2 weeks now; I received it as a gift for my bday that was in back in June. Apparently, I'm hard to shop for!?! It was well worth the wait though.
Xia, sorry for your loss. Losing family is always devastating. But your parents gave you one of the greatest gifts: the love of reading.
I'm trying to pass that on to my nephews. No matter how tired I am, I can't resist reading to them whenever they ask me. I'd rather them interact w/another person rather than zoning out in front of the TV or playing on the computer. Not that there's anything wrong w/that (I do it too, obviously) but hopefully they'll have fond memories of me reading to them when they were little and will take care of me when I get OLD. Just kidding (kinda).
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« Reply #32 on: November 18, 2008, 05:38:26 PM » |
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Keep it up, it works. My nephew does everything for me. I read to his son now and the 8 yr old already borrows my Kindle.
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« Reply #33 on: November 18, 2008, 05:40:52 PM » |
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i think we have a bias here...considering we love our kindles so much that we spend time on the internet to rave about it.
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« Reply #34 on: November 18, 2008, 05:49:25 PM » |
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Goodness, just goes to show just how special the love of books and reading is. You and I are complete strangers and yet we have something so significant in common. (I love this board! ) Angela, Xia -- you touched my heart, too. I lost both parents late last year, my Mom in Sept and my Dad in Dec, and both of them were avid readers. I know it's due to them that my sister and I read as much as we do, and when I got my Kindle I immediately thought of both of them. My Mom was never very computer-literate, but she could easily have managed the Kindle. And it would have helped her get through those chemo sessions, and the after-chemo not-feeling-so-great days.
Sigh. I do miss them, and I wish I could share my Kindle with them.
It is cool to see how "not so different" we are from others... that we are not alone in our experiences and passions! Just think... if not for the Kindle and this forum, our paths would have never crossed! cool...huh? |
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« Reply #35 on: November 18, 2008, 08:27:00 PM » |
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I did/do my best to pass the love of reading on to mine, too. In fact, I'll never forget when my teenage son asked for----- A BOOK ----- for his birthday. Not a gamething. Not a fancy podthing or phonething. Nope. It was a book, specifically Sartre's La Nausee that he asked for, translated into English (titled Nausea in English). That just blew me away. That's the kind of thing that makes my day. When kids get excited about reading (and I don't mean Manga), all is well with the world. |
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« Reply #36 on: November 18, 2008, 09:45:30 PM » |
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Have had mine for a month and a half. I waffled since January about buying it. Now that I have it, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it again at twice the price. Don't tell Amazon, though.
I have never been so attached to a technothingy. But I don't even really think of it as a technothingy because the techno part disappears so completely. All I notice is my rediscovered love of reading.
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« Reply #37 on: November 19, 2008, 08:03:50 PM » |
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I've had mine about a month and love it. Unfortunately, I have a back log of "regular" books that I bought in anticipation for my retirement this last September. I finished one of them on Sunday and told my husband that reading it was so 20th century! Now I'm back to reading on the Kindle. I'll just have to read my other books in between times when I'm feeling nostalgic.
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« Reply #38 on: November 20, 2008, 08:00:27 AM » |
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I was one of the first to purchase a Kindle (actually I think I pre-ordered on 11/17/07 -- thus qualifying for "one year plus")and I don't think I could do without it. I love it! It's my favorite thing. I bought one for my daughter for Christmas and I hope she loves it as much as I do. Yes, I would definitely buy it again if I need to and again and again and again (but I hope this one last for a long time, of course). Also, I'm glad I finally found this Board. I haven't posted much yet, but I love to read your posts.  |
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