Carolina

To celebrate the advent of my fantastic new job, I bought myself a new BFF: Carolina. Carolina is my new Kindle, an electronic reading device from Amazon.com. Since I'm home sick on a gorgeous October Friday night, I finally have the time to pen a love-blog to my favorite new piece of technology. I decided to purchase Carolina after a homework assignment I had to do for the cataloging class I am taking right now. If you have no idea what’s going on in my life right now, I’m in grad school at UNT so I can become a children’s librarian. And yes, cataloging is the worst idea for a class ever, and yes I thoroughly despise it. The best thing to come out of cataloging 101 was an article review I had to do on modern technology relating to the library. I chose to read an article on electronic readers, and from then on I pretty much had to have one! The new job gave me a great excuse to get a Kindle and Carolina is so incredibly cool! The new generation Kindles have free 3G so you can buy and download books everywhere. I also figured out how to check my email on it and it works globally so I can take it with me to Paris this spring. Super excited about that! I already got a bunch of free books from amazon.com and the not so free ones are still really cheap to buy and download. Check it out on the amazon.com website if you are interested in getting one. I love my new toy!

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B003FSUDM4/ref=sa_menu_kdp33

Here is a picture of Carolina the Kindle. I bought a cool “skin” to go over her, so now she looks like a mini-library.