The Eighth Day

Last night, I went on line hunting free books for my Kindle. I went to FreeKindleBooks and Fictionwise and downloaded Lark and Wren by Mercedes Lackey, The Mountains of Mourning by Louise McMasters Bujold and Sheepfarmer’s Daughter which is part one of The Deeds of Paksennarion by someone whose name has gone out of my mind! No! it just popped back in. It is by Elizabeth Moon. I am particularly pleased to get this last one on my Kindle because this is a trilogy I LOVE and I have been hoping that Amazon would have it kindlized. Now I have to find parts two and three in ebook form.

Anyway, I downloaded these books to a folder called "Books" I had put on my desk top. These books were opened by a free program called Stanza. {If you are a PC user, you would need to download Mobipocket which, I think, is also free.} Then this morning I connected the Kindle to my Mac by a cord that came with it for just this purpose, waited until the Kindle {cleverly called "KINDLE" }appeared on my desktop and then dragged my three free books over to the Kindle. I disconnected the Kindle and opened it at my home page, and there were the three books I had dragged! But I noticed that although the books were there, there was no author. Hmmm, there must be a way to put that in in Stanza. I did rename the books by their proper name before I saved them to the books folder on the desktop since they were called something cryptically numerical when I got them. There are Kindle Boards where I can go and ask how to put in the author.

The day before yesterday, I got a message from the local health care place that I had an appointment next Tuesday morning to have the ophthalmologist look at my eyes again. I was glad to get this reminder because since I only go every six months, I had forgotten the date! It is the same day as the book club meeting but in the morning whereas the book club is at night. Actually, Janice who runs the book club also mentioned on the reminder she sent us that we should discuss changing it to Saturday mornings because so many of us, and that includes me, don’t like to drive in the snow and ice at night in the winter.

Ok, time to go brush my teeth and go on the treadmill with the Kindle! Until later…

QUOTATIONS:

"There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)

bambamgotchatwice

November 8, 2008

I think the free book thing is what keeps me from getting a kindle. I wonder if libraries will start doing two week kindle downloads in the future… but as much as I love reading, and even though $10 is less than you normall pay for a brand new book, I just can’t justify $10 a pop.

gray tabby

i think a saturday morning book club meeting would be great for the winter. i hope you like the sample of wideacre. it’s about england in the mid 1700’s. i love this period of history. take care,

MMMMMMMMMM. Mountains of Mourning. I just started a new book, but I might have to take a Miles Vorkosigan break before tackling anything else new!!

to an above noter: I know here in MN we can do downloads of audiobooks that are good for 2 or 3 weeks. And my dad says we can do ebooks as well, but I haven’t found them.

Violet

interesting query up there ^^^ from a noter wondering about library e-books. It will be interesting to find out of that works. I haven’t ever done that on my Palm.

Lily47

i think i like such quirky books that i might not be able to kindle them. yet. tho eventually i expect everything will be available. just as more and more music (including older music) is becoming available on itunes.

What is a Kindle?

ohhh, it’d be so great if libraries were to offer free temporary kindle downloads, but how would they control it? I love libraries! One of the greatest sources of free fun on the planet! I want a Kindle so much though. Think of the convenience. It’d be like an ipod, but for books.