Another Reason To Love a Kindle

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When I got my Kindle, I read on it daily. So many books and playing with the 3G. Reading in direct sunlight, and laughing at the text to talk feature. 
As the apps began to come out for the iPod Touch and iPhone my girls were able to load the Kindle app and read the stories that are appropriate for them. I had already downloaded many free books for them to read.


Yet, it wasn't until this week that I really saw first hand the beauty of the Kindle. Two of my children were reading Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Each could read the same story at the same time and not lose their place. No fighting over a physical book, and you can read as fast or slow as you wish. My other daughter was reading Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins at the same time as I was. She reads much faster than I do, and can take her book anywhere she goes as it is also her phone. Very convenient.
Keep this in mind when you go out to purchase a new phone. Look for one that you can use an app on. My choice for you is obviously a Kindle. But to each their own.

Create Special Memories

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Every year my daughter creates a memory book for herself that is put together by each person invited to her birthday party. Last year she had two poster boards and created people using individual parts to create a person. Each of these poster boards with random faces and bodies are now hanging on her wall as a memory of her friends on her tenth birthday.


This year she made an actual magazine that each friend designed by cutting and gluing magazine pieces together. Each girl created her own page and signed it to ensure my daughters delight each time she looked through her birthday magazine.


A memory is the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. If our children learn to create and preserve such special figures at an early age they will indeed recognize how amazing life can be knowing they have been special to more than one or two people. 


Life is a special memory, and everything we touch, feel, and speak of can be too.

Kindle -vs- Book Stores(IMO)

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I have been a Kindle user for almost a year now. I love how simple and inexpensive each book is to buy. Although, I have run into a few obstacles on books that were not available on Kindle, you are given the option to ask the author to release the certain book for Kindle. As of yet, the two that come to mind are still not available on Kindle. I requested them from the library.

Now I do love a great book store. The smell and feel of a book is refreshing. Last weekend I took a walk through Barnes & Noble with my wish list in hand(or better yet, on my phone). As I strolled through the YA section I found that more than half of my books weren't even on the store shelves. I only found 2 out of the 8 that I was interested in buying in paper form. I was very sad. Kind of lost actually. Why would they not have these books? Out of date? From another country? I can probably say yes to both, but still... I was in Barnes & Noble.

Don't get me wrong, I do realize that many of them are also not on Kindle. So to my trusty library online service I go. They usually have it, but I will not own it outright.

So back to my VS thought. I really like the fact that I can read on my Kindle at the same time my kids can read on their Touch. We can all read at the same time, and even the same book. I can have up to six users on my account. This is very useful to me as I hate folded pages, or marks, and torn up corners of a book. I keep my books neat and tidy. 

To sum up my random thoughts; I like both of them, and I will continue to use both of them. But I will say to have my current book with me on my own cell phone is an amazing time saver. I always have my cell phone therefore I always have something to read.

Good day all.

♥AZ