Bookworm

Yikes. Someone stop me! I am addicted to online shopping and the latest obsession is buying books for my Kindle! (This post is going to read like a total Amazon advertisement. Be warned.) Yes, I know there are book purists out there, but wait, hear me out. I used to be one of you. I used to say, but I like the feel of a book! I want to turn the pages! I love lining up all the colourful spines on a bookshelf! You don't get a true book experience from a Kindle!

But I was converted. I was excited when my friends Taryn and Allison bought me one for my birthday, don't get me wrong. I recognised that it had its great conveniences - no more balancing a book in one hand on the train while holding an umbrella in the other, no more bulky heavy book taking up room in my Mary Poppins handbag, no more squeezing 2,3 books into a tiny carry-on for flights - and I am a very practical person after all. I just didn't realize that I would get this hooked. And the biggest reason for that is because Kindle edition books (at least in the UK) are SO CHEAP! The Kindle Daily Deal offers at least one book a day for 24 hours that gets discounted to 99p. 99p! You can barely get a chocolate bar at that price. The only thing of equal value for money in my mind is malted milk biscuits (another great love of mine).

And now, Kindle has found yet another way to compensate for what I used to love about physical book experiences - browsing in a bookstore, finding random great finds on a bookshelf or stacked on a table. Despite often being warned not do so (and I do realize the saying isn't meant to be applied to books themselves), I love judging a book by its cover. If the Waterstones that I have to walk by to get home from the station is open when I come home from work, I often can't help but pop in and have a browse. There, I will often pick up books only if the cover takes my fancy. I just love book covers! And today, I noticed that there was a link in the Kindle online store for 200 books for under £2.99 - more bargains! So check this out, I'm able to judge books by their covers side by side just like I do in the bookstore! Blew £5 in half an hour on 3 new books. You can guess which one was my favourite cover on here:

Added bonus of buying on amazon - readin gohter people's reviews before deciding to buy!

I justify all of this with the fact that I need to have lots of books stored up for:
1) flight back to Canada
2) spa trip and visiting my friend Vivian in California at the end of May
3) unemployment