Doughtie is pronounced DOW-tea.
Kindle and veggie juice at Le Pain Quotidien.
Kindle, coffee and Gavin at Intelligentsia.
Kindle at Buster’s.
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I like buying books on the Kindle
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I also like being able to search my entire library, and being able to buy books instantly.
Monday’s lunch came from the garden.
We planted potatoes by setting a few old potatoes with lots of eyes on the ground and dumping buckets of dirt over them. Potato plants grew and then died back. I went into the back yard with my gardening fork and lifted these out of one of the dirt mounds. I think there are still twice as many left in the ground. I figure they’ll keep well there, and if they sprout more eyes they will already be in the right place.
These artichokes grew along the side of the house. I served them with lemon juice from a neighbor’s lemons and my favorite California olive oil from Beyond the Olive. I’ve never tasted artichokes this fresh before, and they were so tender and flavorful that they almost didn’t need a sauce.
I’ve been sewing bright colored seam binding around the edges of my cleaning rags, which are mostly retired washcloths and squares of retired towels.
I like the way they look when they’re hanging on the clothes line. They used to have ragged edges, and they would fray in the washer and dryer or look embarrassingly messy drying on the line in the back yard. These look pretty. And if they get mixed up with the regular laundry, it’s easy to keep retired washcloth cleaning rags from being confused with washcloths in good standing.
I’ve been thinking about kindles lately…I do have a hard time paying the same price for a digital version of a book as a printed version…but i like your thoughts about paying for content.
can it do magazine subscriptions? that’s what i really want.
The printing part of the book — the paper and spine and ink — don’t cost that much to produce. It’s the content that costs money to produce. But most of the kindle editions of books are cheaper than new copies of the paper editions. Most of the books are $9.99. And there are no shipping charges! (Of course.) I think the authors and publishers might be getting squeezed by these low prices because I don’t think the paper part of the book is a very big part of the price, and the publishing industry is having quite a bit of trouble already. I hope eventually it starts to feel more normal to buy e-books because I want to keep reading good writing, and I don’t think binding it to paper is the best or most sensible way to keep it around.
You can get some magazines on the kindle, but the kindle is black and white, and a lot of color photography magazines aren’t available. (Vogue wasn’t available last time I checked, for example).
Hi Jill,
I’ve been hemmin’ and hawin’ over Kindle…I just love the way a book feels in my hands. but then again I can pack one Kindle and tons of books…I dunno…I think giving up books is like giving up crack (for me…the books, not the crack, I’ve never done crack)…how was the transition for you?
I love my Kindle so much! The transition has been great for me — if you’re not sure, you can download Kindle software for free for your PC and I think for a $1 for your iPhone. You can’t do as many things (on the Kindle you can underline passages and make notes in books — in the PC and iPhone software, you can only bookmark pages), and you don’t have the benefit of the long Kindle battery life and the glare-free screen you can read outdoors, but you can still get a feel for what it’s like to go with electronic books.
I use my Kindle and my Kindle for PC interchangeably depending on what I’m carrying around with me.
What’s super cool is that book sync up between devices — I can leave off in one place on one device, and pick up in the same exact place on a different device.
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