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|summary=We thought about it long and hard. Yes we did. We don't often think about things this long or this hard, because it hurts. But sometimes, cogitations are necessary. We wouldn't be here at Bookbag if we didn't love books but we knew that more and more people were enjoying eBooksebooks. It was time to find out what it was really like to have up to 3500 3,500 books in your pocket or your bag. 3,500! Yikes! So we took the plunge and bought ourselves a Kindle each (the posh one, too). Like a child at Christmas, Jill was the first into print.She was also the only one to use the first person. This may or may not indicate egomania, you'll have to make up your own minds about that! ===Jill===
After the usual weeping, wailing and renting of clothes that follows any purchase of new technology hereabouts, I'm rather pleased with my Kindle.
So, I've managed the connecting, the buying of books, and the reading. I shall now embark on the news, the blogs, the net browsing and all the other clever things Kindles are able to do. For my report on that though, you will simply have to wait.
===Keith===
Keith's an inveterate fiddler. Yes, yes: the e-ink looks gorgeous and it's surprisingly pleasant to read books on it, but what else does it do? Treat it as a basic internet browser in your pocket, and it's a useful backup to have. The browsing is a little slow to navigate, and it sometimes locks up when it can't get a connection, but a large number of websites are surprisingly usable on it. Given that it's listed as an experimental feature, we can but hope an improved browsing experience will be along in future.
As Keith recently spent far too long carting far too many books far too far across the country, simply being able to pop them all in his pocket (bar the few books that have particular sentimental value) would have been a dream. Ebook readers are the future, but that's not to say the paper book is dead. Much like Jill, Keith is curious to see if the book industry makes similar mistakes to the music industry. Everyone wants to see authors duly rewarded for their work, but one way or another people will end up with the library they want in their pocket, at a price they're comfortable with. What the solution is, we really don't know, but we're certainly interested to see how it all plays out.
===Sue===
Sue's not exactly a Luddite, but she was into her seventh decade of book reading and didn't really see any reason to make a change. Add to this that she has problems using her hands (her orthopaedic surgeon refers to them as ''very interesting'') and the fact that new technology has to be explained to her in words of one syllable it looked as though her Kindle might be underused. Two days - and two eBooks (one of which was a freebie: [[Blood Lines by Grace Monroe]]) - later she was asking why people persisted with 'those old-fashioned book things' and wondering if she could somehow get all her review copies onto her Kindle.
