My Nook

I have wanted an e-reader for quite some time. The way I see it, it's an easy way to carry an entire library in your bag. And if you know where to find some great, free e-books, then the whole world is at your finger tips.

My husband gave me a choice for my birthday. He had some work points saved up that he could use to buy an item from his work's "store" and graciously offered to use all his points to get me what I wanted. The choices were an Xbox with the Kinect, an e-reader, or an iPad. And boy did I ever deliberate over this choice. All three have great things about them and I wanted each of them for different reasons.

I decided on the Xbox with the Kinect because I love that it's a game that requires you to use your whole body. When you sit at work all day and sit at home most of the evening, the body tends reject movement. A body at rest will stay at rest. I refuse to let this be lifestyle of me and my family so I wanted something fun that would get us moving around a bit. So we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Xbox so we can get our game on!

The real surprise came when my husband brought up the idea of me using some money I received from my birthday to buy the e-reader of my choice. So when we had our random Tuesday off of work, we went out shopping to check out the Kindle and the Nook. After some brief deliberation, I opted to buy the Nook.

So now I've got my little e-reader and I plan on spending many hours getting to know it. I love that it's so small, fits so nicely in my Vera bag, and can carry so many books at once! The only thing I would like even better is to have more Christian books available for free download. Now that would be a sweet deal.