Kindles and Cars

I’m sitting at the car dealership for the second time this week. Monday I took my car in for 75,000 mile maintenance and for the annual Texas mandated inspection. I change my own oil most of the time but since the inspection was due I went ahead and brought it in. Doesn’t hurt and it turned out I needed a new time anyways. I was here for 2hrs and then am told the machine they need to do the inspection, broke. So the primary reason I came in, couldn’t get done.

Instead of being here today to finally get the inspection done, I am here because my wife’s car got a recall notice. So I get to spend another 2-3hrs here while they replace some part. And I still have to go somewhere to get the inspection on my car before the end of the month.

At leas the wi-fi is working for once. It’s historically been spotty here.

In other news, I decided to use the money I made selling my SFC account and buy a Kindle. Been thinking about it for awhile. Since I am probably going to go the self-publishing e-book route, I decided I should get an idea of what the competition is like. And what reading ebooks is like in general.

I’ve been fascinated with the idea of ebook readers like the Kindle. No annoying backlight like a computer or iPad has, but a whole world of books available at your fingertips. But I’m also a big fan of a physical book. Especially hardbacks. I just like the weight and feel of reading them.

But since my books won’t be in hardback form, not unless I’m amazingly successful and can afford to do a physical book run, I should get use to the idea of an e-reader. Everyone who has gotten a Kindle has loved it.

We’ll find out Thursday.