Saturday, December 18, 2010

Too Distracted to Read

You can always tell a person by the kind of books he has. I've always loved to see my shelves full of books I've collected since high school. Many of them can be traced back to the little used book store on Monroe Ave. The move wore me down and with majority of the my bookshelves destroyed I finally gave in and got a Kindle.

When it arrived on Thursday night I was so frustrated that I couldn't get the wifi to work I almost sent it straight back. After hearing and reading all the glorious reviews I was initially disappointed by the user interface. The menu options are limited and commands are not intuitive. After fidgeting with it for a couple of days I'm finally warming up to the little thing. Kind like people, you've got to accept it for what it is: a simple reading device with a very readable screen. If you're looking for more bells and whistles go straight for an ipad.

Unfortunately it didn't take me long to be completely addicted to word games on my new Kindle! I've got the Shuffle Row, Scrabbles and Every Word downloaded and I spend a good portion of my day trying to beat my own scores on the "Shuffle Row." The game shows seven letters one at a time in a row and the player must try make up the longest word to score points before the first letter expires and the new letters come up. The game lasts about 10-15 minutes and my competitive side finds it totally addictive. It's so bad that I even took it to the gym with me today and played a game of scrabbles on the treadmill. It took me a mile to complete the game. Maybe with enough practice I can run and play scrabble at the same time and get 1.5 miles in a game? Or maybe I can speed up my game to three quarter of a mile's time? Is it wrong to have a kindle and not read books on it???

The river has been frozen for quite sometime now. The ice fishing village is up and snowmobiles are everywhere. On the way back from the gym I snapped a picture from the riverbank.

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