Pondering on a Sunday Afternoon

I've not yet started the current selection by Southern writer Charlaine Harris, but am just about through with The Hunt for Confederate Gold. It gave me a lot of ideas I'd like to use some day. Southern writers tend to be more gothic (dark), connected to the role of religion in their lives and those of their communities, ancestor worship, tradition and understanding of the quirks, foibles and pecadillos of men and women of whatever station in life.


I find I'm increasingly more interested in buying a Kindle. Linda R. loves hers, and she's not easy to please. Now that they are under $300, the Kindle is becoming affordable. However, I think it's still too much to pay when you can get closer and closer to the price of a laptop for which there are far more uses. Once the Kindle price falls to $199 I think that's when I'll bite and make a needlepoint case for it (you laugh, but my grandmother made a lot of things out of needlepoint like eyeglass cases, Kleenex dispensers, belts, vest fronts, etc.).

Netbooks are very close now in price to the Kindle, and they do a lot more than the Kindle can. I like the ASUS EE netbooks, and would consider one if I didn't already have a desktop (Starship Lord Fu XI has 8 GB RAM, 2 TB disk space, Windows 7), a laptop (personal) and a laptop from work.

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