wolffe

Anybody subscribe to Kindle Unlimited? I'm trying to figure out if it's a good deal for me or not. I'm in the 30 day trial right now. I looked for two books, both on my TBR list. One they had, the other they didn't.  I don't feel like going through the 100s of books on my TBR list to see how many they have. Just wondering if they have most of the books you want to read, if you've found it a good deal, etc.

So my back's been hurting since Friday. It wasn't like my back was out or anything, just sufficiently twinge-y to get me good every so often and be a general nuisance otherwise.I went for a walk around the neighborhood Saturday afternoon, and that actually seemed to help a bit. Sunday it was unhappy again, but I was still able to move around.

Then this morning, the pain moved into my left hip. All of it. It's persistent and it's so painful it's hard to walk, stand, sit or even lay down much of the time.I'm unsure if I'm falling apart and should see an orthopedic, or if I just slept on it wrong, or if sitting in the chair all day yesterday playing WoW was unwise.

Also, I've realized that I actually prefer to read on my Kindle now. That's quite a revelation since I was dead set against them and considered myself somewhat of a purist when it came to books. But it's just so damn convenient. I don't have to use a hand to keep it open to read. I can set it down on the table and eat while reading only needing a finger to tap to turn the page. I can read at night, in bed just using the back light turned to a dim setting. And - here's the best part - I will never run out of bookshelf space. Oh, I still insist on paper versions of reference and graphics books. The one book I read on my Kindle that included a map the page was laughably unreadable. But yeah. I like reading on the Kindle.

I have all 3 books on my Kindle. I can loan them to another Kindle, once each for 14 days. If anyone is wanting to read them let me know and I'll loan them to you. I'll need the email account associated with your Kindle.

Just finished The Hunger Games - the first book I've read on my Kindle Fire. I'm not going to give up my paperbacks just yet. The biggest drawback? Having to plug in partway through the novel due to low battery. I didn't experience much screen fatigue, but I do like reading on Jason's regular Kindle with its e-ink better. I might send any future books there instead.

I also miss the satisfying *clunk* of sliding a finished novel into place on the bookshelf. But I don't miss having to find room on said bookshelf.

The book itself was good, and makes me look even more forward to the movie. I'm a big fan of bows myself, so any girl kicking ass with a bow is going to draw me in. If I had a Prime membership, I'd go ahead and borrow the second book and read it but I don't so I'll wait.

*sigh* I finally got fed up enough with Bibliophil's missing and erroneous information that I moved to Library Thing. I bought a year long membership because otherwise it wouldn't import all my books. Looks like the ratings came over, but not the reviews so I'll have to transfer those manually. Later. So far I'm liking it. Anyone else have an account there? Here's the link to my profile: http://www.librarything.com/profile/wolffe

Maybe when I hit 10 years on LJ I'll make it into a book. Because that would be pretty cool.