New Year New Book

I love to read, and I love buying books...eBooks, that is.  We have two Kindles and a Nook Color in the family.  I got my first Kindle (a generation 2) August 2009 as a birthday gift from my husband, and fell hopelessly in love ever seen.  Since both my daughter and son are avid readers as well, when Amazon announced a new and better Kindle in July 2010, we pre-ordered it right away.  Now with about 800+ books in my Kindles and truly enjoying the freedom of not carrying 4-5 books at once, and not having to pay over-weight luggage fee when we travel,  I have been trying to convince my friends to get their own for a while.

Lots of my friends claimed themselves readers, but they don't buy books, and they frown at the idea of paying more than $100 to buy an eReader.  They borrow books from friends, library; or they pick up books at garage sale and second hand book stores.  They really enjoy it when I bring them bags of my old quality paperbacks and hardcovers.  (I absolutely cannot stand what do you call those?  Mass produced paperbacks?  How could someone handle something so horribly designed for reading?)   So far, I sold one Kindle.  I don't know what it is...how can people who constantly claim that they are book-lovers, or avid readers...not fall for a Kindle?

There are several reasons that they commonly use:  I can still get books pretty cheap at the used book store; I thinking of getting an iPad, so I'm waiting to decide; I don't read long books, I just scan interesting books at Barnes and Noble for the summary; I like the feel of real books; too expensive; too low tech; I'm waiting for more features for my money......you name it.  I finally gave up and concluded that someone who does not fall for a Kindle immediately can not actually be a book-lover.  Period.

For the new year, I have a few "to read now" books that I want to get to.  A new book by Lisa Genova, who wrote the book Still Alice that I loved so much.  Genova is a real life neurosurgeon, who bought her real life experiences and knowledge into her stories.  Still Alice was a story about a successful lawyer who tried desperately to fight her symptoms of a hereditary early-onset Alzheimer's.  In Left Neglected, she wrote about a woman who lost the ability to use part of her body after an accident.  I can't wait to read the book.