Saturday, December 03, 2011

My New Kindle

I finally broke down and got a Kindle. Sadly all the local bookstores have closed down and my nearest Barns & Noble is a 20 mile round trip, so I used my credit card points to get the Kindle. I ordered it on Tuesday and I got it yesterday morning from Amazon. It took all afternoon to figure out how to load a non-Amazon book; you can do it by two ways. One is to email the book to your Kindle email account, and the other is by downloading it to your computer and connecting the USB cable to the Kindle and computer.

There a great number of places that you can download free books (see the links at the end), some are new books that the author or publisher give away in hopes that you will buy more books in the series. Others are classics that are in the public domain and still more are from authors who just want to be published.

As many of you know I am hooked on science fiction. So my first book was from Baen publishers and was written by David Weber and Steve White, Crusade, it was first published in 1992 and on Amazon it is $7.99 in paperback and at Baen the ebook is free.
Neither side having proved capable of pressing their conflict to a successful conclusion, the Human-Orion war to end all interstellar wars has collapsed into an uneasy peace. But it is a peace filled with fear, hatred and mistrust on both sides. Then from out of a warp point notorious for devouring spaceships, appears a ship from the dim mists of half-forgotten history. It responds to hails from the patrolling Orion sentry using ancient human codes from a long lost colony. And it opens fire on the Orions, igniting the fires of interstellar war anew, in a quest to free Holy Mother Terra...
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2 comments:

  1. Which version of the Kindle did you get? I really love my Nook, thought I might miss holding books, but I read more on my Nook. Does your local library have a virtual library? I get most of my free books from the library and load them the way you described.

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  2. I have the Kindle Touch with wifi. I was just reading msnbc and the local newspaper.

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