Attached below, hopefully, is my new best friend for Europe. My Kindle. It's not actually new since I got it last July in pre-pre-preparation for this trip, but I'm now finally getting used to using it. I haven't been able to allow myself to buy anything more than $0.00 on it yet, but I don't hate it.
The Kindle will be my new best friend because it's going to be (almost) my only connection to books...
(Almost- hopefully excepting the book I trade out from the hostels as I go, because I just can't stay away from paper this long, and I'll need my fix.)
One of the Kindle perks is: free books. I love lots of classics and some that I haven't gotten to yet are now, weightlessly, going to be coming with me! A few I've downloaded already are:
Les Mis-because I can't get over how many pages I turn and the percentage-done still hasn't gone over 2%.
North and South, Wives and Daughters-by Elizabeth Gaskell
A bunch of Jules Verne's works
Bleak House by Dickens which I've been meaning to read for forever.
Dracula- um we are going to Sighisoara, Romania. Need I say more?
Madame Bovary- Guatave Flaubert
Alllll the Sherlock Holmes tales
Some Mark Twain
The Scarlet Letter (yeah I know I'm the last person on the planet not to have read it yet.)
And a bunch of e-books I have to review for my blog.
The point is, I probably won't read half of these, exploring and all, but for those endless train rides and overseas flights...I'll be happy for at least a bunch of options.
I'm also able to whispersync ebooks I check out from the library to this device, using my iPhone to order them since this thing doesn't have a web browser. This is handy and will update items every time I connect it to wifi. (Which I normally have turned off to save battery life.)
I'm very glad my Kindle charges via USB like all my other devices so it will fit in my adapter too. :)
And this thing weighs like 4 ounces.
Seven weeks!
Leah
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