To Kindle, or Not To Kindle...?

I had an exciting moment the other day when I received an email from Amazon advertising a new Kindle for $79!!! $79!!!! That’s about £50 at the current exchange rate and on English Amazon the same kindle is being sold for £90! BARGAIN ALERT.  Now the inner shopaholic in me very nearly instantly bought it without any question due to the obvious value for money. But I refrained, suddenly unsure as to whether or not I actually want a Kindle. So I did what any confused 19 year old girl would do... I bbm-ed Mummy! Hoping to receive a simple yes or no answer I was horrified when she told me to write a classic pros and cons list. So here it is:

Pros	Cons
Cheaper e-books	I’m a cheap skate who only buys second hand books off Amazon anyways
Can bring any books I need in America back to England	Could save the money and post them back
Can make digital notes if I get a keyboard one	Not the same as scribbling in margins and folding down pages
Can take hundreds of books on holiday with me and can switch if/when I get bored	Choice always causes a problem
Small, and easy to hold when tired and lazy	I want a library! And not one on my computer!

So... although it’s looking pretty equal I think my Cons side weighs down heavier.

I love the concept of a kindle, the ease and pure brilliance of it, but you just can’t beat a proper good old fashioned book. Especially those found in cute charity shops and offline which have some other unknown person’s name scribbled in the front and have that old musty smell about them! I’m pretty sure Kindles won’t have the yummy book smell... I should add that to the cons list.

I’ve still got another 8 months in America though to make use of the exchange rate so who knows, I could still be persuaded...