Ok, I have been wanting a Kindle for forever!!! But I am doing the Compact for the 4th year!! I can't believe I have completed 3 full years already. And yet there it is. The premise of the Compact is that we don't just go out willy-nilly and buy new things. We stop, we think, we find a way to re-purpose something we already own, we go to Craigslist, we go to Freecycle, we beg, borrow but definitely NOT steal; all BEFORE we trot down to a retail store and spend hard-earned cash. And let me just say that the Compact has changed my life forever.
So I have been lusting after a Kindle for several years now and trying to find a way to justify its purchase. Less books produced means less trees killed means less clearing out I have to do on my bookshelves and also = less money spent on each book since they are $9.99 on the Kindle! But that initial cash layout has always made me balk and wait.
But then I discovered that the Kindle is available to me on my AMEX reward points! Woo Hoo!! O happy day! So I have been accumulating points with all my gas purchases, grocery shopping, etc and yesterday I checked and I now have enough to get the Kindle DX. Awesome!
Yesterday I also got an email from Apple telling me the joys that I too could have if I would only pre-order the iPad which is coming out in less than one month. I watched all the videos they sent about how fantabulous the iPad is and guess what? All their marketing worked! Now I want an iPad!
If I understand all the hype the iPad will do most of what the Kindle will do plus about 3,453,987 more things. And at about the same cost. Do I need all those other 3,453,987 things? Maybe. Who knows? None of us thought 10 years ago that every person on the planet NEEDED a stupid cel phone. Apparently that was wrong. 20 years ago people were just getting home computers and look how that has changed the face of things!
I am going to keep thinking on this and try to make a plan I can live with. This needs to be a well-thought out decision. It needs to keep the spirit of the Compact. And it needs to be something I will not regret.
If you have any thoughts or insight into either of these items or how I might go about making my decision, comment away!
We absolutely love our Kindles. Reserving judgment on the iPad, but it will have color photographs, which Kindle doesn't yet have (it has text only). I agree that it's best to not buy the first generation of anything -- let them work out the bugs on others!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.... well, it sounds like the Kindle would be a repurposing of your AMEX points....
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