Anyone who has known me for more than 30 seconds will instantly see right through that as the paper-thin excuse to buy a shiny-rectangle-with-a-screen that it is. But I digress.

Ouch. I guess that hits a little close to home. That said, I'm absolutely loving my Kindle and even in 4 days have found myself reading much more than I normally do in a week. I've bought two titles for it so far, but I've downloaded some of the "classics" I've never read (War and Peace, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, to name but a few.)

Downloading Stanza is a must for converting freely available texts to the Kindle format. It'll open ZIP files, so you can head over to Project Gutenberg and download the smaller files, then convert them with Stanza in a few seconds.

Now, if I can just find a way to get the Kindle to sync to my GoodReads page, I think I'll be happy.