Poll: How Long Have You Owned Your Kindle; Would You Buy It Again?

[Kirstin]

7 months and would most definitely buy it again!!  It is officially one of my can't live without it items!

[rla1996]

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.  

Rla1996

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

I agree, definitely a "can't live without item."

[Cowgirl]

I've had mine almost a month now and I don't leave home without it!

[Xia]

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)))

[Suzanne]

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!!!!

[DKristie1734]

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). 

[Dori]

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.

[Vegas_Asian]

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.

[Angela]

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?

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

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. 

[Essensia]

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.

[ozicat]

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.

[BFFKindle]

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.