| Have you purchased your first eBook yet? If not, | | | | do not be afraid of the Kindle-do not be |
| you are in danger of falling behind the times. Yes, | | | | afraid-because you don't even have to have a |
| there are some that believe that eBooks are one | | | | computer for it to work. That's the brilliant thing |
| of the best discoveries since sliced bread. Even | | | | about it. |
| though you probably have already guest it, I still | | | | Before I had this, I had 17 books on vacation this |
| would like to proudly confess that I am indeed | | | | summer." After reading the article all I could do |
| one of them. Now this statement coming from | | | | was say wow... I must admit that before reading |
| me may seem a little bizarre to those of you out | | | | that article I had never really thought about |
| there who know me. As I was not at all an | | | | eBooks as being portable at all. Being able to |
| eBook fan at first. | | | | download eBooks to portable devices like the |
| To me the only good thing that eBooks had going | | | | handheld Kindle allows one to take their entire |
| for them was their extremely low cost. However | | | | library any place at any time! The Kindle alone is |
| I soon found out that my view of eBooks was | | | | equipped to hold about 200 eBooks and if you |
| based upon my lack of eBook knowledge. I have | | | | pop in a simple memory card you can have more |
| since earned my self proclaimed degree in | | | | than 4,000 eBooks at your fingertips. Now I'm |
| eBookology and am openly professing that | | | | just trying to figure out why anyone would carry |
| eBooks are the "Bomb!" (Urban-slang meaning | | | | a backpack full of books, when they can carry |
| awesome). I think the person responsible for | | | | 200-4,000 eBooks on a portable hand-held device |
| really helping me to see the true value of eBooks | | | | and take it on the bus, vacations, or just about |
| was the queen of books herself, "Oprah Winfrey." | | | | anywhere for that matter! |
| I was reading a newsletter that I had subscribed | | | | And last but most definitely not least. It has |
| to when I came across an article that read, | | | | dawned on me that these amazing eBooks are |
| "Daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey endorsed | | | | also environmentally friendly. Not only will they |
| eBooks and a handheld device called the Kindle | | | | never end up in land-fills or polluting the earth's |
| last week on her nationally (and hugely successful) | | | | atmosphere via a book-burning heap, etc...But not |
| syndicated TV show!", "Anyone who knows me | | | | one air-filtering, life promoting, carbon dioxide |
| knows I'm really not a gadget person at all, but I | | | | producing tree have to be cut down to produce |
| have fallen in love with this little baby." She said. | | | | them. Now I bet you see eBooks a little |
| "If you're like me and a little computer challenged, | | | | differently yourself now don't you? |