Gadget of the Week: Amazon’s Kindle

I’ll start… right now on my Kindle:

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Raising Confident Boys by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Eat Right For Your Blood Type by Peter J. D’Adamo and Catherine Whitney
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
The Shack by William P. Young

I’d have the following books:

Twilight series
The Appeal by John Grisham
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

I’d loooove to win!

Twilight series
Harry Potter series
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Pick me! Pick me!

It has been quite a while since I have had the opportunity to book shop.  I am not certain of the exact titles, but I know the topics.

I would choose a couple self-help type books, specifically on parenting (an energetic/spirited 5-yr old boy).  I would love a book showing step-by-step what a Mom inventor should do with her product from start to finish.  And for relaxation, I would choose something uplifting, short stories and such.  If there was anything left over, I would buy my two boys some books that would help us teach them to read and so forth.

Wish me luck!
raelynn

The Harry Potter Series...I would love to actually get to read all of them.

I would have books at the ready for my 3 year-old - Mo Williams, Sandra Boynton, Dr. Seuss. I would have Harry Potter for me, since I am re-reading the entire series, and of course, the Zagat’s restaurant guide. Does that count as reading?!! - Danielle

What a great way to bring multiple books with you when you travel!!

I would have the books that I have wanted to read but aren’t on my shelf yet:  Persuasion; Awakening the Buddha Within, Some kind of fun read; and a few books for beginning readers for my daughter.

The possibilities are endless!

Books I WOULD have on if I were to be of the 4 winners and would buy one:)

The Appeal
Spectacular Sins
Twilight series
Into Thin Air
Into the Wild
Wild Trees

-hoping to be a winner!

My favorite books to download on the Kindle would be:

Letters to my Daughter:  Maya Angelou
The Longest Trip Home:  John Grogan
The Audacity of Hope:  Barack Obama
The Christmas Sweater:  Glenn Beck

Wish me luck!  I could really use this gift certificate!

I would love:
The Audacity of Hope by Barrack Obama
The twilight series
and my favorite books for my kids:
half magic
Amelia Bedelia and
Mandy

* Back of the Napkin Thinking
* Tribes, Seth Godin
* The new one from Malcom Gladwell, what’s it called, “On the Edges”?

Don’t watch Oprah and have no idea what a Kindle is but, as a “classics” reader, I would probably look for a complete Shakespeare and a complete Jane Austen for starts

I would have some marketing & PR books for career from authors like Seth Godin and David Meerman Scott.
Twilight Series
Harry Potter Series
Books by Jennifer Weiner, James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell.
I Don’t Know How She Does It
Walk On - The Spiritual Journey of U2
1,2,3 Magic
Dr. Seuss collection

Jenni Hilton, @gurnage

The Harry Pottery Series

twilight series
harry potter series
dr phil books

I’d put on:

Who moved my cheese?
Eat, Pray, Love
and anything by Kinky Friedman

I would love to be able to get a Kindle I have added it to my wish list if I did have one the first books I would download

The Bible
Letters to My Daughters
Eat Pray Love
and Eat This Not That so I can stop carrying it around in my purse

I’d start with The Kindle Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn’t Tell You by David Emberson (Kindle Edition - Oct 9, 2008) - Kindle Book - then I would move on from there since hopefully I will understand everything then.

I would have something by Savannah Chase
The Twilight Series
Something by Francesca Prescott
Some kind of Christmas book
and of course something that included the Jonas Brothers so my daughter would not feel left out.

I’d read:

The Bible
Artisan Bread in 5 mins a day (an easy way to keep track of those recipes)
Inkheart trilogy
Jodi Picoult’s latest

I don’t have a Kindle, but I think it would be a useful device for a busy working mom. I could take it on the metro and not have to worry about fumbling for my books…

Wow--maybe I could finally lighten my load by not hauling all those half-read books and articles around. (My chiropractor might endorse that move!)

Anyway--if I had a Kindle, I would probably get to read the paper again since I wouldn’t have to worry about turning the pages while standing up in the over-crowded metro. I could return the books I have borrowed from friends and just add those to my reading list. And all those news articles I like to read...yup I guess I could read them on Kindle too.

My blackberry would be grateful...might get a break from me attempting to read articles with the intermittent internet access.

Only four? There are so many books to read and life is so short. I recently moved down to the Dominican Republic and every time I come back to the states I bring back books for my husband (in Spanish, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and anything on American History) and books for my son. I rarely have room for books for myself so I have read the Alchemist twice in the last three months and have been reading the same issue of Yoga Journal since May! I am desperate for a Kindle...it would change my life! I would download everything by Paulo Coehlo first, then Richard Bach, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and probably the Dr. Sears series. This sounds like a dream.

I’d like to have some classics to read again and again, and a selection of new fiction and non-fiction.

1.  The Bible
2.  To Kill a Mockingbird
3.  anything by Maeve Binchy
4.  Elm Creek Quilts series
5.  books in French and English for my son

This would be something my whole family could use!  How exciting!

If I had a Kindle, I’d get What to Expect for Toddlers, the Audacity of Hope, 123 Magic, and Setting Limits for the Strong Willed Child. They are at the top of my list, but it’s so hard to find time to read these days.

KJV Holy Bible
The Alchemist
The Little Prince
Brave New World

The Twilight series for my daughter and the books written by Barack Obama for me.  Thank you!

Books are like old friends, you care about the charactors, their lives, and you mourn their deaths. I love to go back and read about my old friends…
James Rollins
Clive Cussler
Patricia Cornwell
Jeff Long
Ted Bell
David Baldacci
Dan Simmons
Larry McMurtry

Simple--everything on my Amazon wish list that would fit on the Kindle!

Fleeced by Dick Morris,
Dee Henderson, True Heroes Series
Max Lucado’s Facing Gaints and Just Like Jesus
Anything by Diana Palmer

I would have to add all of the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, everything by Jennifer Roberson, and all of my favorite classics. Is there a file size limit on the Kindle? Mine would become quite full rather quickly, I think. I am definitely a bookaholic. :-D

Another wonderful giveaway prize contest! I love to read and have wanted a kindle for awhile now.
Here are the first books that I would put on it ~

“Crazy Fool Kills Five” by Gwen Freeman
“The Lucky One” by Nicholas Sparks
“Marley and Me” by John Grogan
“The Shack” by William P. Young

Please enter me in your delightful drawing.....
Thanks, Cindi

If I had a Kindle it would have:
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
Because I just finished reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz and loved it.
Thank you for the giveaway.

The first book on my Kindle would be Patricia Cornwell’s “The Front”.

stephen kings’ the stand for sure

Twilight series
Harry Potter series
Septimus Heap series

I’d go for the Harry Potter books as well—comfort reads, definitely—but I’d also like to use the Kindle to keep up with blogs and news sites.

I am such an eclectic reader.  I devour parenting books and DIY manuals.  I love reading political and social commentaries as well as the classics.  There are all kinds of possibilities for this.  What I love about books is that it really opens your mind to new points of view and ways of life. 

I’m not much for pulp fiction or romance literature… I can’t see much point in wasting my time with books that won’t improve my life or make me a more tolerant and intelligent person.  But there is a lot of good fiction out there.

My short list for this week:

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
Do Hard Things:  A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations - Harris & Harris

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Every single Harry Potter Book

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

The entire Little House on the Prairie series of books

I would start with The Journeyer by Gary Jennings.

Definitely would have What to Expect for Toddlers. Once I got that loaded I would start searching for potty training how-to books and games/crafts with your toddler books. Then becuase you always need some “me” time I would snag the latest Nicholas Sparks. He is amazing!

I’d really love to get a Kindle.  I would put many of Steven Kings books on it.  A number of romantic books and some Dean Kootz books.  Thanks so much for this wonderful and very generous giveaway!

I don’t have a Kindle, but have been looking into it (though it is definitely a bit on the pricey side).  Here are a few things I would have on my Kindle and why:
1 - Newsweek or US News and World Report.  It would be absolutely amazing to have a Kindle that I could carry with me so that I could read up on my news whenever I had the opportunity.  I currently receive the print version of both of these and while I enjoy reading them when I find time.  I often find myself “behind” on my magazines because I’m just plain tired at the end of the day and would rather read a mystery, etc.
2 - JD Robb - I love her books and would be so happy to have all of her latest ones at my disposal to read as they come. 
3 - Linda Greenlaw - I’ve recently joined a book group and we read one of her books that was very good.  I’d love to have the rest available too.
4 - Speaking of that book club . . . It would be great to have the two books per month that we read on my Kindle.  I wouldn’t have to worry about the library not having enough copies. 

Thanks so much for the AMAZING giveaway!  While I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I win, I know whoever does will be very grateful!  :o)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Marley and Me” by John Grogan
I’d start with these and add books just as fast as I can read them. I really want to win this, Thanks so much for the chance

A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
The Power of Now - Tolle
Fleeced - Morris
Eat, Pray. Love - Gilbert
Angels & Demons - Brown

Ooooohh! To have 300 titles at my fingertips wherever I went!  I’d have books by Nora Roberts, her alter-ego J.D. Robb, Magic Tree House and A to Z Mysteries for my son (to make waiting rooms more fun!), Parenting Magazine, Real Simple, and Family Fun. A New Earth and a few other “self-help” books to lose myself in… The possibilities are endless—difficult to choose specifics. The bottom line… On MY Kindle, I’d have an ecclectic library at the ready, so whenever I could steal a moment or two, I could lose myself in the written word.

letter to my daughters

I don’t have a Kindle, so I would actually get all of the Christopher Moore books. He’s hilarious! I’d also have Poe, Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

No Kindle here, but if I had one, it would contain:  Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Jasper Fforde, MC Beaton, and many more.

If I had a Kindle I’d add scriptures and a good supply of 99 cent classics to get started, then I’d be looking for science fiction, and culinary mysteries for pure enjoyment. Thanks for the terrific offer!

If I had a Kindle, I would get a lot of John Grisham, The Shack, The Heretic Queen (so good, I want to read it again!), and many other.
Thanks so much for the chance!

If I had a kindle I would have every Janet Evonavich book on it.

The complete works of Roger Zelazny…

I don’t have a Kindle yet, but if I did I would like to start by putting some classics on it like John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.

ooh I dont have one but would love one. I would put on a couple of my favorites

I know why the caged bird sings,

any work my poe

wow what a super giveaway

Sounds really cool!  I want one!  Keep Faith and My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, Twilight Series and any other books written by Stephanie Meyer, Outlander by Diana Gabaldan, and my latest interest is books by Robin Cook.  I think that would keep me busy for awhile! Thanks!

I would find history books for my grown autistic daughter she can’t get enough. And a DIY book for myself since we are looking for a new house.
Thank you for such a great giveaway.

Would love it!  Too many to list, yes, definitely John Grisham, Harry Potter, Charles Dickens.

I’d love to have humorous things to read to get me through a flight or while in a waiting room.  Steve Martin has some wonderful books that would bring a smile even under those conditions.  I’d also get all of John Irving’s books and whatever Amazon would then *recommend* for me.  Thanks for the chance!

I would have:
The Twilight series
lots of Poetry
Shel Silverstien
Anne Rice
Harry Potter
“I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” by Sloane Crosley
and a bunch more~

The Harry Potter Series

I’d have to have the whole “number” series by Janet Evanovich. And the Recluse series by L.E. Modesitt. Oh, and the entire Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card. And, and… oh, there are just so many!

Books!  I love to read so much, I would love a Kindle.
Paullina Simons, chitra banerjee divakaruni, james patterson, amulya malladi, jodi picoult… I would put some books on for my son Harry Potter and Magic Treehouse… I would add some magazines like Oprah, Popular Science.. I could think of a million things!

harry potter, the twilight series, and alot of cookbooks

My first book on my Kindle has to be my BIBLE!!!

I would have lots of romatic suspense and christian fiction.

I would put Nicholas Sparks book collection, a few John Grisham books, James Patterson books, the Bible, and the Twilight Series on my Kindle.

I would have Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof, The Undomestic Goddess, Love the One You are With, Shopaholic & Baby and so many more.  What a great idea!

i would have the
harry potter series of books,
one hundred strokes of the brush before bed,
the Anita Blake vampire books

and many more!

This would be awesome to win. On my Kindle for starters would be The Audacity of Hope, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, the new Diana Gabaldon book in the Outlander Series (when it is due to come out next year), All Cats Have Aspergers because my daughter has Asperger’s Syndrome.  This is a book lovers dream!

On my Kindle would be Memoirs of a Geisha.

I’d have all of V.C. Andrews books on there. Plus, I’d add The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks.

I would have mystery novels and romantic comedy novels on my Kindle, e.g. Janet Evanovich, Susan Elizabethe Phillips, Sophie Kinsey.

I would have all my favorite authors Stephen King, Johnathan Kellerman, James Patterson and Jeffrey Deaver. Great giveaway, thanks for the chance.

I would have any book by Ann Rule, Steven King and James Petterson or Nicholas Sparks on my Kindle

I would like to have the Twilight series
on my Kindle!

Anything by Patrcia Cornwell

All the Harry Potter books

Most anything to help my son with his dyslexia- school reading assignments/novels

Last but not least books by Elizabeth Lowell

Anything by Jodi Picoult

Wally Lamb - I Know This Much is True, The Hour I first Believed

Anything by Francine Rivers.  I love her writing.  Thanks!

I think that I would finally sign up for graduate school or at least audit some interesting courses and get the text books on Kindle.  I’ve heard from some child study team members that using a Kindle can improve concentration and facilitate learning especially for people with learning disabilities.  I tend to multitask while studying, so if the Kindle can help me retain what I read with less effort, I’ll be it’s number 1 fan!

I don’t have a Kindle but I really, really want one. I’d love to read President-ELect’s book “The Audacity of Hope.”

Harry Potter series
Twilight series
Anything by Jane Austin
Kite Runner

I love reading.  A kindle would be so cool to own.

Fight Club
Some Star Trek books
Comedy books

I’d have the newest Alex Cross book by James Patterson for that matter any new book he would publish.
The Harry Potter series
The newest Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evonovich
Pieces of my Heart by Robert Wagner

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation
A Separate Piece
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Sense and Sensibility
The Tenth Circle
The Eyre Affair
Shopaholic and Baby
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
The Cider House Rules

Pride and Prejudice
The Red Tent
The Glass Castle
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Harry Potter Series

the whole set of discworld books, by terry pratchett

Harry Potter series
Memoirs Of a Geisha
Atlas Shrugged

a dorky diy manual!

I think I would enjoy having a Kindle.  What I would put on it would be anything by Luanne Reice: Anne Rivers Siddons; Richard Paul Evans; John Lescroat.  I have too many favorite authors to even think of more. I love to read in bed, and the Kindle might be lighter than an actual book for me to hold.

I would put James Patterson books on my Kindle, also Tess Gerritsen. Also newspapers. Thanks for your giveaway!

Amazon.com

I would fill my Kindle with the books from my Amazon.com wishlist:

Nothing with Strings, by Bailey White
Every Mother is a Daughter, by Perri Klass and
Sheila Solomon Klass
A Wing and A Prayer, by Katharine J. Schori
Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive, by Nicholas J. Goldstein
Mrs. Cahill for Congress, by Tierney Cahill

and, for times when I need a break from fascinating, illuminating, educating non-fiction, I’d add some of Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan novels.

Now if only I had a Kindle…

Every book by Sydney Sheldon!!!

“The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire” by Deepak Chopra

Mostly sports biographies

I really want a Kindle, it’s on my Amazon wish list.
I’d get the following books first:

Just After Sunset- Stephen King
Your Heart Belongs to Me- Dean Koontz (coming 11/25)
Bodies Left Behind- Jeffery Deaver

I would love to read my favorite mystery authors on my kindle. Hope I win.

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Illusions--Richard Bach
The Color Purple
Also would love to read Gone With the Wind again

I am a big book reader and listener of audiobooks.  I’m not like most readers in that I don’t like to keep books around as trophies. A Kindle would not only afford me the opportunity of third method of absorbing books it would also help the environment by reducing the need for paper.  I would also share this new technology with my two 10-year old daughters as they are the future for which technology will play an ever increasing role.

As for my own personal reading list with which I would load my Kindle, I always think back to a question asked of me regarding six people you would like to invite to a dinner party.  My Kindle would have titles related to those folks:

1. George Washington because I would want to know how he drove himself to keep going in the face of such hopelessness. It would have been so easy to just give up.

2. Nostradamus - Can you teach me to do that? I’m specifically interested in the lottery numbers!

3. Ronald Reagan - such a positive and inspiring man and knew how to tell great stories.

4. My ancestors (as a collective) - I want to find out who’s to blame More specifically, my grandfather - because I miss him greatly. (Genealogy)

5. Jerome Howard - who doesn’t love Curley from the Three Stooges? What’s a dinner party without a stooge? I’ll make certain there are plenty of pies for dessert.

6. Jesus Christ because he is the savior and you don’t want to dis’ the Lord. I would also love to know if Christopher Moore was accurate in his interpretation of Jesus’ lost years in his book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. (Religion)

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Harry Potter Series (I think I’m the only one who hasn’t read it)
Anything by Michael Crichton (RIP)