I took 5 with me, and had them finished before the first week was up in Tanzania, then I tore through the books Jennifer brought that I hadn't read, and finally I was reduced to buying more books (in multiple places).
As a result, I've been trying to figure out a way to keep enough reading material with me without having to lug around a library. I guess I could FedEx stuff (or even just abandon books), but right now I'm seriously considering an Amazon Kindle.
If you don't know about them, they're e-book readers that allow you to store a ton of books, and read them on the go. More detail is available here. I'd finally convinced myself it was the wrong way to go, and then along comes a blog post from Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp. I highly recommend his blog.
If you don't want to read the blog, I'll cut to the chase - he loves the Kindle, so now I'm conflicted again. If I do decide to get one, I'll follow up with a review.
In case you're curious, the reasons not to get one:
- Expensive
- Wireless only works on Sprint's network, which is only in the US (and spotty at that)
2 comments:
Aimee has one. She seems to like it. You can ask her about it if you'd like.
you might as well just buy it. you have something like 10 months of this left, right? that means a minimum of 2 full weeks of layovers and who knows how much flight time. by my count, you'll be somewhere near 300 books. :)
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