Do You Read On Kindle? What Are You Reading Now?

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  1. Lon Tanner

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    I'm hooked on the John Grisham novels.. January 15th my Kindle will receive a book about Robert E. Lee's father, Lighthorse Harry Lee hero of the Revolutionary War. I am a Civil War Buff and enjoy books about that period.
     
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    Grisham is great! My wife reads on Kindle whenever we drive somewhere; that alleviates her anxiety over my driving habits!
    Frank
     
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    Most every night, and while in waiting rooms or in restaurants, sometimes, plus I often used Kindle books in research for work. For the past year or more, I have been reading either free Boy Scout novels from the early 1900s or memoirs from a slew of unremarkable people about growing up wherever it was that they grew up.
     
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    I love reading on my Kindle Fire ! Even though it can also be used for internet searches, just like a lager tablet, or a laptop; I really do. Not do anything with my Kindle except for reading books on it.
    I belong to bookbub.com and also bookgorilla.com, so there almost always have free books from Amazon that I get, or at least at a big discount.
    I also have Amazon First Reads, and every month they give you a choice of several books, and you can choose one for free. This month, they are giving away two free books, so that is even better !

    I read a variety of books, sometimes several at once, depending on what I feel like reading at the time. I have also been getting the free knitting and crochet books from Amazon , and that is much easier than having the regular knitting books, and they don’t get lost as easily.
     
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    I've got three books going at the moment, but none on the kindle. I read a lot on my kindle, especially the ones that don't take a lot of thought, but I have no kindle books going at the moment.
     
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    Love the Kindle, usually read biographies and true stories
    Usually light hearted, but this time I've ordered a true, grim story so also got comic quotes on the go as well :p
     
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    I have a Kindle..I have about 7 books on there, but I only ever use the kindle when I'm travelling or waiting at appointments..

    I much prefer the feel of a Real Hardback book
     
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    What's a Kindle?
    Is it similar to this?

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    I'm pretty sure it is the singular of Kindling wood.
    So it would be one stick to light your fire.

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    No knowledge of a kindle but do read books
    Now: Biography of Wolfgang Luth hard cover book.
     
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    History of the Plaque in London, 1865 by Daniel Defoe that I got from the Gutenberg site. That is my current "downstairs read" on the Kindle.
     
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    I read Kindle books on my mini iPad. I have a one hundred twenty-one book on there,
    All read save one and that's what I'm reading now: "As Far As The Eye Can See" by
    Mark Nepo. Currently ready this one aloud to my wife. About half my books are western,
    the others a dukes mixture of mystery, nonefiction, three romance novels, a a few on
    meditation. About fifteen percent of my reading are hardback books from the library, Daniel
    Silva and John Le Carrie and John Grisham.
     
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  14. Beth Gallagher

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    Yes, I read on a Kindle, and a Fire tablet, and my phone, and even regular books (gasp). Right now I'm reading a murder mystery and since my husband is gone to play dominoes I'm hearing random scary sounds in the house. :eek:
     
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  15. Tim Burr

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    @Beth Gallagher just curious, would that be 'Texas 42' your husband plays?

    Played a lot of Dominoes in the Air Force, learned most of the games.

    Now wife and I play a lot of Backgammon to pass the time.
     
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