M-Edge

It was only a matter of minutes after my last post that I decided to purchase the new Kindle. IF I was not too late and will be sent one it should be arriving February 26th.

In the meantime for those of you who already have one or are waiting on yours as well, here are some Kindle items for your consideration:

M-Edge items


The Executive Image Jacket for Kindle 1

$29.99

The e-luminator book light for Kindles 1 & 2

$14.99

The Platform jacket for Kindle 2

$29.99

K-Day (like D-Day or V-day - yeah I know . . . I kinda suck)

The day SO many of us has waited for - is here. And I am sooooooooooo glad I held out.

The kindle 2 is now available for pre-order with a price tag of $359. I will be spending the day deciding to pre-order or not to pre-order.

For those of you who did not receive the same e-mail as myself. Here is the announcement:

Dear Customers,

I am proud to introduce Kindle 2—the next generation of our wireless reading device.

Since launching the original Kindle a little over a year ago, the customer response has far surpassed our highest hopes—and were grateful and appreciative for that. More people are reading more books, periodicals, and blogs on Kindle sooner than we ever imagined. We kept everything readers love about the original Kindle—the convenience of reading what you want, when you want it, the immediacy of getting book wirelessly delivered in less than 60 seconds, and Kindles ability to disappear in your hands so you can get lost in the authors words.

Improved battery life means you can read up to four days on a single charge. Its new, streamlined design makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperback. We added more storage, allowing you to carry over 1,500 titles. An advanced display provides even crisper images and clear text for an improved book-like reading experience. Our new new Text-to-Speech feature means Kindle can read every book, blog, magazine, and newspaper out loud to you.


At Amazon, weve always been obsessed with selection, and we know that even the best reading device would be useless without the books you want to read. Today, the Kindle Store has more than 230,000 books, including 103 of the 110 New York Times Best Sellers, plus top newspapers, magazines, and blogs. We added over 40,000 new titles in just the last three months. Our vision for Kindle is to have every book ever printed, in any language, all available in under 60 seconds.

We hope you enjoy Kindle 2.


Jeff
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon.com

P.S. If you'd like to have Kindle 2 ship to you the day it becomse available, we recommend you preorder today to reserve your place in line.
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Thank You

Thank you SO much to those of you who have contacted me with your condolences and well wishing. I will try to come back to you once I have an arsenal of goodies for you.

In the time that I have been gone I have been mostly knitting to deal with the grief so once I am back there will probably be the addition of knitting tidbits or knitbits as well.

For any of you who ARE knitters - I am now on ravelry as VAChickWithSticks

Last Post?

This has been a rough year. And I'm terribly sorry for the inconsistency after a while. My computer went down many times, I lost power for over a week, and last week my little brother died. Perhaps it was not my year to blog.

"Talk Amongst Your Shelves"

Thanks to hurricane Ike I have not had power until very recently. Here is the promised post that I told you was coming.

When reading isn't enough - why not arrange your books to tell their own story?




"The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library's focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library's holdings."

You can now view other people's sortings here on Flickr.

Source

Marilyn Monroe's Typewriter

Sorry It Happened Again

I swear I'm not dead.

My computer was fried due to landlord-related negligence involving my electricity.

Stay tuned- I have a post planned.