Da Kindle is in da house

Though I expect it will spend much of its time out of da house, that’s part of the point, surely?

I mentioned to the husband that I was considering ordering a Kindle from amazon.co.uk to be delivered when we visit friends in Scotland towards the end of the month – to avoid paying the extra fees that I’m sure would accrue when the package reached Norway (though books are excempt, I’m assuming the actual Kindle would count as electronics, which aren’t). Anyhoo, he did a bit of a price check (he does, which is good, I’m far too lazy to shop around much) and found he could buy one at Dixons for less than Amazon wanted when he went to England this weekend for a work thing. And he did, so now I have a Kindle.

Yay.

So far all I’ve got in the way of literature is The Inheritance by Robin Hobb, which I’d already purchased through the Kindle app on my phone, thinking short stories would be a good emergency read (that’s what I’d use the Kindle app for, emergency reading when finding myself with a bit of a wait without a book in my bag – I don’t find reading on the small screen comfortable enough to do any regular reading that way). As I’m still with Jack and Stephen – at The Reverse of the Medal now – I don’t really need anything new to read for the next couple of weeks, so I’ve started following amazonkindle on Twitter to get notified of the daily deals, that seems to be the best strategy for the moment, since I’m unlikely to stop wanting to buy hard copies of the books I really like, it’s as well if I can get the ebooks cheap.