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The formatting issue Amazon tells me is the publisher's fault, so they gave me a one-half credit for the book I just finished, which, btw, was total trash "Double bound" -- bad gay trash

I am nearly done with my second Kindle book and am loving it ever more. First, I find it easier to pick it up and read in part because it is a novelty, in part because it starts wherever I left off, but it is actually easier to handle and read.

We shall seem but I am reading more now.

I got a Kindle 2 earlier this year, and I'm hooked. It goes everywhere with me, and I love that I can carry several, heck many, books in one small package.

Being still a working stiff, what I like most is that I can take my tiny little Kindle to work....and get much more reading done during the down time. And if I need the next book, I can turn on the wireless and download it in under a minute.

Like Phil, I also find it easier to handle than most books. I can position it on a knee or a sofa arm, and it balances, freeing my hands. I can also read more comfortably when reclining, because I don't have to use both hands to hold a up a heavy book. Battery life is also excellent, especially with wireless turned off.

The downside is that, when flying, you have to turn if off during take off and landing. It's about the profile size of a hardback, so you can't toss it into a small purse. I don't mind carrying a larger purse though--more room for more junk.

BTW, my first Kindle book was a piece of crap called Double Bound, a gay themed mystery that was really just awful. Was my book club pick so can't wait to hear what the rest of the gang thought.

Currently reading a brilliant book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Excellent so far.

Absolutely loved it!

Someday I'll finish Bleak House. Close to page 600. I think I see the light at the end of the long and windy tunnel.

Finally getting through books I have owned for decades but never got around to reading. Have finished Fawn Brodie's biography of Thomas Jefferson, which confirms much of the condemnation of his behavior that came through in reading Chernof's excellent biography of Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson was not the saint so many accept him as having been, but a duplicitous and remarkably lazy person who subjected his daughters to psychological abuse and behaved very badly toward his servants.

Now have moved on to Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which, even in my advanced state of cynicism and with full knowledge of how badly our immediate past Vice President behaved, is very difficult to read because of how thoroughly it documents the total absence of christianity and fair dealings plagued virtually ever step of our interaction with the indigenous peoples of this continent.

Both help dispel any notion that the Founding Fathers have any claim on righteous or moral definition of how a government should behave toward the people who elect it. Indeed, the models established by the Founding Fathers deserve to be destroyed!

Just finished Curious Incident and you said it -- brilliant book. An autistic boy tells the story of incidents in his life in a way that makes him absolutely understandable and makes one wonder at the logic of the other participants.

Highly recommend. Am now browsing for the next book....suggestions welcome ... am going back through this thread to see what catches my eye.

Silks looks like a possibility. Comments? Wounded Knee also possible, but not sure I want to get that angry right now.

I finished one not long ago that I thought was very good, but I hesitated to recommend it here due to a very frustrating printing error.

Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, is a novel with autobiographical elements. The novel is about the partitioning of India into Pakistan and India in 1948 (I believe.)

The story is set in Lahore, in a Parsee household, and is told from the perspective of a young girl with a Hindu ayah. In turn, the ayah, a beautiful young woman, has many admirers - Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh. The story follows the extended household as communities are torn apart, Muslim set against Hindu and vice versa.

The movie "Earth," directed by Deepa Mehta, was based on this novel and was what led me to it.

I really loved the novel but in the last 25 pages or so, a printing error caused facing pages to be entirely blank - and the last few pages of the novel were missing entirely! So don't buy a copy unless you can check the pages first.