All right, well, I did something I said I would never do: I bought a Kindle. The new 2015 Paperwhite to be exact. Five years ago I would have died had I known that I would one day make such a purchase; I've always been one of those annoying snobs that turned their noses up at digital media. But times, they are a changin', and when I had to sell the vast majority of my books for a cross-country move, I decided I would give an ereader a shot.

So now I have this tiny little device with room for thousands of new books. Have any of you read anything good lately?

Edit: I didn't include any books I'm into because I'm pretty open to anything -- I like everything from Harry Potter to classics to westerns to YA. :)

illu45:

There was a recent discussion on what people had recently read. What kind of stuff have you enjoyed in the past? That would help in terms of making recommendations.

One of the best things I've found about the Kindle was the large number of free public domain books that are available on the platform. Some really good classics of literature are on there at no cost whatsoever. Defoe, Dickens, Austen, Woolf, Mansfield, Lawrence, Huxley (I'm reading Eyeless in Gaza at the moment, Joyce, and so many others are all available. Certainly worth taking a look at some of the classics, I would say.


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