How Did I Ever Live Without My Kindle?

Honestly, I don't know.  When I left Chicago, I donated two giant suitcases full of books to Goodwill.  I also shipped three 12x12x12 boxes of books home.  I got home, and went on a massive cleaning rampage. So far there are 6 large boxes of books, some dating back to middle school, in the garage, waiting to be disposed of.  And that's not even counting two bookshelves of books I'm keeping, and 200+ books on my Kindle.  I'm sure the amount of money I've spent on books would actually make a nice little dent in my loans (and let's not even get into that).

I've resolved that until I'm in a place where I don't expect to move for at least five years, I'm not buying another print book.  If it's not an e-book, nope, no way.  Let's hope I stick with that resolution.

A much more difficult resolution is the one where I say I won't give in to tech envy.  But those new Kindles are so cute!  And there's a graphite one!  No more covers staining the white plastic.  I want.  But no.

But really, I was a pretty big proponent of print books.  I like the feel, the smell, being able to easily flip back to reread a part of the book...but I hopped on the e-book wagon pretty quickly.  And now that I'm on that wagon, I'll pretty much do anything not to fall off it.  I'll miss the prospect of having an entire room in my future mansion devoted to books, but since, with an e-book reader I'll be able to take that entire library with me anywhere, I think I'll get over it.