In the past few days I’ve been realizing how much my impulse buying of books has skyrocketed since I started using a Kindle. It used to be that if I ran into a book recommendation — particularly online but even in print or on TV — I’d make a note to check out the book, then I’d go to amazon.com when I had a few minutes and check it out. I’m just guessing but I suspect I bought about 70% of the books I checked out. I also suspect I only checked out about 70% of the books I intended to look at.
Yesterday I was watching an episode of Bill Moyers Journal from last week and he mentioned that his favorite book of 2009 was Nemesis by Chalmers Johnson. I paused the DVR, picked up my Kindle, found the book was available in that format for $9.99 (as I recall), clicked a couple of buttons and I was reading the book.
In this case, Moyers’ recommendation was enough to convince me to buy it. But if I’d gotten the suggestion from someone who doesn’t have his clout with me, I could still have checked out the book while I sat in front of the TV, read reviews, a synopsis, and ordered it for immediate download.
How cool is that?
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