Is is worth it to buy the Kindle if eBooks are so expensive?
I’ve always been a full-time reader. During the school year, I manage to read an average of four (thick) books a week, if not more. Which is why we have a problem: school is finished in two days, and then the summer holidays start. And I have no access to a library.
My mom has offered to pay for an Amazon Kindle due to their amazing new discount (now only $189!) and so I did a little research on the price of eBooks.
Turns out the most popular titles are all about $10 to $12, and the only free ones are old classics that I’d prefer not to read during my vacation. If you calculate a book a day for 60 days, that’s about $650.
So, does anyone know any secret eBook clubs? Perhaps there’s a pay-by-month kind of thing? An kind of unlimited reading?
Or is the whole eBook thing for those of us who have nothing better to spend money on?
I own the Kindle, so let me give you some of my opinions. It is a great device, and I’ve to say I love it! I think I’ve read over 30 books with my Kindle, no glitches so far! And since Kindle books are cheaper than actual books, I think I’ve saved around $120 on buying books already.
One of the reasons I love my Kindle is that it has helped me improve a lot on my efficiency and utilize my time. Before I have the Kindle, waiting time like when I’m waiting for friends or waiting for shuttle bus or some thing like that is simply wasted. Now I just need to bring the Kindle 2 along with me, and all my favorite books are inside it. Another thing I like the most is the text-to-speech function, which means I can “read” books without even holding or looking at the Kindle. Now I like to use this function when I’ve myself busy on some boring things, say when I’m on the step machine or doing some housework…
I like reading and at the beginning I did miss a bit on the feeling of reading books. But now I love to hold the Kindle, the e-ink seems to work very well, it is really like reading books… Now I often read with the Kindle for several hours but I don’t feel tired… And I now prefer to manage all books inside the Kindle rather than my never big enough bookshelf… And like to do bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookup without any additional thing but a Kindle.
There are quite a lot of free books (tips: if you’re outside the U.S. all the books will have US$2 added, but when you choose to download to computer when you check out, the $2 will be waived, and you can copy the books to your Kindle through USB cable), and many Kindle books, magazines and newspapers are cheaper than the actual paper version. I remember I read these reviews about the benefits of the Kindle when I decided to buy it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR2DUM7S4XW06QN%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ASIN%3DB00154JDAI%26nodeID%3D%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Fpr%255Fcmt&tag=elec-m-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/is-kindle-2-worth-the-price
And below are the millions of free books and full list of bestselling books for the Kindle, that you can check from time to time:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/b/?node=2245146011&tag=elec-m-20
http://www.amazon.com/b?node=1286228011&tag=elec-m-20
Finally, in case you don’t know, Amazon just put a big price slash on the Kindle, and it is now a good time to get it. I put the link below for you to check it out yourself.
Hope it helps 
School Library Journal Reviews the Amazon Kindle 2 Ebook Reader
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