Remember in July when I showed you my accidental discovery of its use as a food tray/remote control device? I mean, before I understood that my birthday present had a default purpose of (scoff!) reading?
My birthday present
Well, since then I've found that the Kindle is so much more!
And don't worry about your sandwich crumbs making a mess on your Kindle. It's very easy to clean.
Since its screensaver has a rotating series of portraits of famous literary figures, I glued it to a picture frame and displayed it in our living room to show off to all our guests.
But I haven't even BEGUN to show you all of Kindle's functions. It's a shoe stretcher.
It's a change and key tray.
Banana Republic employees will appreciate its unique ability to deliver folded clothing in under 30 seconds with its patented Whispersync technology.
And that's not all. It's also a door stopper...
The Kindle is great for traveling because you can use it as a writing desk to write out your post cards and letters. I find it extremely handy for filling out forms that require three or four carbon copies.
You can really dress up a bathroom with the decorative Kindle Toilet Lid Cover feature.
Have I mentioned how the Kindle promotes a healthier diet?
I call this the Nanny Goats Nina Pinta Banana Maria Kindle smoothie. It's yummy and chock full of fiber!
Sometimes Lacy, the NGIP mascot, sneaks off with it and uses it for more mundane activities like reading books and subscribing to her favorite magazines and blogs (such as Nanny Goats in Panties). Here, you can see Lacy reading fellow humor blogger Robert Kroese's latest novel, Mercury Falls.
Lacy has no imagination and can't think outside the box and I tell her this, but she just shakes her stuffed head at me and sings to me as if for the 100th time the various praises about the Kindle. Like how you can subscribe to this very blog, Nanny Goats in Panties on it. Or, how you can get a 14 day free trial on all newspapers, magazines, and blogs, like this one, for example. Or how you can look at the beginning of books for free before you buy them.
I don't really care for her tone as she goes on and on about how people living outside the US can now get the Kindle, or how she can change the text-size to instantly create a large print book. Or how much money (and trees, and gas, and shipping costs, and time, and...etc.) she saves. She just bought Mackenzie Phillips' new autobiography High on Arrival today for $8.10 on the Kindle. (Speaking of which, they'll give anybody a credit card these days, won't they?)
Actually, one of my favorite features, is that the battery lasts for weeks. Did I stutter? You heard me. Weeks!
A friend of mine visiting Australia and New Zealand recently bemoaned the fact that his wife paid $24 for a paperback (TWENTY-FOUR DOLLARS FOR A PAPERBACK!!! WTF?). If she'd had a Kindle with the 3G wireless network that now works internationally in 100 countries, she could have simply zapped another book down into that bad boy and voila! - be reading again. Needless to say, he bought her one for this Christmas.
And if you ask Santa for one this year, maybe you too, could be a part of this picture:
Oh, did I mention that NGIP is available on Kindle?
I did?
Oh.
Well, did I also tell you that if you don't subscribe to NGIP via Kindle, you could still leave a customer review telling others how faboo you think NGIP is?
I did?
Well, did I tell you that at press time, the Nanny Goats in Panties blog has an Amazon sales rank of 6,529 in the Kindle store and a rank of 13 in the Humor and Satire category?
Whaddya mean, "What does that mean?" I can't believe you just asked me that.
OK, I don't know what it means, exactly.
But if I might make one last attempt at shameless self-promotion, I have been interviewed for the famous Sunday Roast over at Clouds and Silvery Linings by the incomparable Eddie Bluelights.Take it away, Eddie!
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