After resisting for years and years, I finally broke down and started reading the Harry Potter books. So, the year 2012 will go down as the year I read them all. In digital form, no less 🙂
I’ve had my Kindle for nearly 2 years now, and I love, love, love it! I do NOT like to read “real” books any more. I prefer holding my Kindle or my iPad and reading on an e-reader. I love being able to go back and forth on those two devices, depending on where I am (if Wi-Fi is available, light conditions, etc) and have it sync my book between devices. The Kindle reading app is a glorious thing!
In March of this year, my library got e-book lending. There’s only a couple of libraries in our state that have this, so I’m very VERY lucky to live in a district that does. I had been searching for them for a while now, and on March 1, I found ebooks online! I immediately started checking books out of the library. Sometime in May, they got the rights to the Potter books, and so I decided to start reading them.
I thought for a long time that I wouldn’t like them, and I couldn’t have been more wrong. They are very entertaining, very engaging (hard to put down) and so incredibly well written. I was really quite surprised and taken aback. I knew they were huge, and we have seen the movies (and are re-watching them now that I am reading the books), but still…. I didn’t think the books would be as good as they are. I’ve read 5 of the 7 so far, and will get the other two soon. Our library only has one copy available for checkout at a time, and someone is apparently reading them ahead of me. They read slower than I do, for I have to wait a few days on each book! 🙂
Who knows, I might break down and reading something like Twilight next! Or maybe not. After all, I have about 500 unread books on my Kindle, LOL!
Happy Reading!
You’d like Twilight (maybe even love it)…it’s very clean. I had to get rid of mine b/c I fell in love with Edward (yeah…embarrassing), but as long as you don’t go and do that, they’re a very sweet, clean read with a good dose of excitement & adventure.
Ha, so glad to see you posting again! I’ve been seeing the Potter books on Amazon too. They’re on my list, although I did read the first 4-5 a few years ago and got a little bored. I might like the movies better but the books weren’t bad.
So glad you got ebooks at your library now! That’s awesome. I can’t believe you have 500 unread books on your Kindle though – that’s unreal!
I so loved the Harry Potter books! When I finally gave in and read them, it was right when book 7 came out, and I read all 7 books in about 2 weeks. I didn’t do much else during that time, obviously. I re-read them occasionally. I had seen I think 5 of the movies when I read them, and when I re-watched the movies there was so much MORE to notice when you have all the background information. If you have seen all the movies, there won’t be any surprises, but I still cry like a baby even when I re-read Book 7.
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