THE SHOPPING THREAD :-)

[mcmich]

I like to help out where I can Gert. My DH wants to buy me a kindle - but I don't want one (or a fancy phone or ipad).
I like to turn pages. I like the smell and feel of books (not in a kinky way). I like to read in the bath with glass of wine.
With everyone kindling I should be able to pick up lots of bargains.

[gertbysea]

Yup there will be more and more bargains.

I used to feel the same way about books. A couple of years ago I had a Female carpenter come in and build a wall of bookcase. It was chocka. Then I bought a kindle and another and another until I had given  4 away and kept one. I cannot  stand to read a book. now. And I am about to hop into my bath with my brand new Kindle . I can read it in the sun , sand,bath and especially love to take it into the pool.
Love it love love it. I get sad sometimes  about emptying my book case but I can pot 3000 books on it and the won't go mouldy and smell like books do in the tropics.

My loss is your gain. I love it when she I see someone else loading up but not for me now.

Gert

[Cuilidh]

I love my kindle as well.  I never thought I would accept it as I enjoyed the 'real thing', but wouldn't be without it now - just bought one for my sister too.

[mcmich]

I thought maybe I was missing out by not having a kindle - went to "purchase" Apples for Jam for kindle, they didn't have it and sent me to site for the actual real book version.

[cookie1]

I buy more books for the ereader than 'real' books now. I love them both.

[gertbysea]

For me it's is about travelling with books. The weight and space for books is a pain in the butt . To run out of books is a disaster of major proportions . My life stops if I do not have something to read. That is why I love my Kindle so much.

Gert

[maddy]

[mcmich]

For me it's is about travelling with books. The weight and space for books is a pain in the butt . To run out of books is a disaster of major proportions . My life stops if I do not have something to read. That is why I love my Kindle so much.

Gert
 
Good point, for travelling it would be excellent and I always have a couple of books in my locker at work.
Maybe I need to have a rethink.

Nice buys Maddy.

[Halex]

My first copy of the delicious magazine arrived last week, same as Maddy posted

The purple carrots, had 3 boys & dh, peeled a carrot & chooped it up. Then asked them all to taste it & tell me what it was. Dh said parsnip, LOL, one boy said carrot straight away. It was fun.

H

[gertbysea]

My first copy of the delicious magazine arrived last week, same as Maddy posted

The purple carrots, had 3 boys & dh, peeled a carrot & chooped it up. Then asked them all to taste it & tell me what it was. Dh said parsnip, LOL, one boy said carrot straight away. It was fun.

H

I love the surprise factor of the purple,carrots and the do have a different taste.

Good fun.

Gert

[gertbysea]

For me it's is about travelling with books. The weight and space for books is a pain in the butt . To run out of books is a disaster of major proportions . My life stops if I do not have something to read. That is why I love my Kindle so much.

Gert
 
Good point, for travelling it would be excellent and I always have a couple of books in my locker at work.
Maybe I need to have a rethink.

Nice buys Maddy.

No matter how much you love real books and no matter how many time you say you will never NOT buy a real book you just cannot get over the practical  aspects of a kindle and how it is saving paper and ink. Two precious commodities.

I used to buy  15  newspapers a week and now I read more newspapers and buy only 6 papers a week.  I don't enjoy the reading of newspapers on line  as much but I feel better about it. I take all my papers to the local YAPS/RSPCA  for the doggies and cats.  At least I feel I have not wasted  them in a way. Also means I don't have newsprint fingers on everything and I can  take a week to read  The Sunday New York Times.

Any mags I buy do the rounds of friends and neighbours.  I buy Masterchef  and Vanity fair on my iPad. Much cheaper and I get to keep them.

Now why don't they sell GOOD wine in BIGGER bottles.

Gert

[maddy]

[Wonder]

I'm another kindle convert - love it particularly for travelling or the very rare occassion I get to lie in the pool and read.

Gert you must be an amazingly fast reader.

[deedub]

More Tupperware. Must. Stop. Now. Off to Costco in a few minutes, who knows what I'll pick up from there.

[gertbysea]

My mother taught me to read well before I went to school. I ruined my eyesight by reading though the light under  the door , the light from street lights and the flashlight under  covers when it was after lights out.

Maddy I love that pasta pic.