As I did not go on holiday this year due to family commitments, I used some of the fees from my annual servicing of the knitting machines at the local Art College to buy a Kindle.

Our house will never blow away, it is too full of books, but the Kindle has enabled me to reread some of the science fiction stories from those little periodicals there used to be - my original ones disintegrated some decades ago, and to find other tales by the same authors - and to hoover up costume books, Greek and Roman writers, poetry, philosophers, detective fiction - the equivalent of a ton of books which I would probably never have been able to afford or would never have been able to carry with me, and which I am now reading or rereading when I am away from the house.

My Kindle has probably vastly increased the time I spend reading and I wondered if anyone else has experienced a similar revolution in their reading habits due the this little device.

Also - does anyone have the large size Kindle DX - something not easily available here in the UK - and is it worth the extra?

I bought the touch screen version, as I found I could make it work without instruction.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: