I've got a Kindle in my pocket...

Yes.  It is here.

Ready to go.  I quickly uploaded all the free texts I'd scavenged from various online sources.  (Thank you to:  Many Books, Project Gutenberg, and Baen Free Library.)  I haven't done a heck of a lot else with it yet, other than putter a smidge here and there.  I did a touch of web browsing just to see how it feels.  Not shabby, but then I live in solid coverage.  I snagged a few sample chapters just to see how that went.  Smooth and easy.  All three downloaded by the time I hit back to the Home screen.  

I'm going to take a week or two to really use/abuse this thing before I put up any proper review.

 Folks in the GSHW, I'll have it with me at the meeting, so you'll be able to give a look over.  (And it will be my standard policy to let people get a look at it in their hand, and I intend to have some short stories available to let people decide how it really works by reading a story.)

In other news, a short story I've been working on is coming along nicely.  I'd started it as per usual, and didn't feel it going the way I wanted.  Then I remembered I was going to switch over to writing it long hand.  So I pulled out a notebook, and switched over to that for the last two days, and I've got ten pages all ready to show for it.  I pretty much abandoned the three previous typed up pages.  I consider those like warm up exercises to get me back into the mind set of my two main characters.  I've still got a lot to work on out, but I think I can see the gist of what else needs to happen.  Hopefully I can make that happen onto the page.  Now, back to work.

I've got a Kindle in my pocket...

Yes.  It is here.

Ready to go.  I quickly uploaded all the free texts I'd scavenged from various online sources.  (Thank you to:  Many Books, Project Gutenberg, and Baen Free Library.)  I haven't done a heck of a lot else with it yet, other than putter a smidge here and there.  I did a touch of web browsing just to see how it feels.  Not shabby, but then I live in solid coverage.  I snagged a few sample chapters just to see how that went.  Smooth and easy.  All three downloaded by the time I hit back to the Home screen.  

I'm going to take a week or two to really use/abuse this thing before I put up any proper review.

 Folks in the GSHW, I'll have it with me at the meeting, so you'll be able to give a look over.  (And it will be my standard policy to let people get a look at it in their hand, and I intend to have some short stories available to let people decide how it really works by reading a story.)

In other news, a short story I've been working on is coming along nicely.  I'd started it as per usual, and didn't feel it going the way I wanted.  Then I remembered I was going to switch over to writing it long hand.  So I pulled out a notebook, and switched over to that for the last two days, and I've got ten pages all ready to show for it.  I pretty much abandoned the three previous typed up pages.  I consider those like warm up exercises to get me back into the mind set of my two main characters.  I've still got a lot to work on out, but I think I can see the gist of what else needs to happen.  Hopefully I can make that happen onto the page.  Now, back to work.