Sunday 4 March 2012

A new toy!





I finally got my Kindle this week. It was a great way of celebrating the end of my Fabulous February theme where I made a promise to do something connected to my writing every day. I had a great month and put a lot of work out so now waiting to see if I get any results.


March the 1st was World Book Day so I decided to buy my Kindle then to celebrate. Of course I have not given up on paper books, in fact I also bought War Horse by Michael Morpurgo in paperback on the same day. I love reading proper books too but this is a great way of having some reading material wherever I am without having to carry too much. I was thrilled to see it even has a dictionary on it which is great as I would not like to carry my huge dictionary/thesaurus around with me everywhere I go.


The second reason for getting one is because I want to publish my own novel in the autumn so I thought it would be useful to see how it reads on a proper Kindle machine. For the next few months I hope to be reading my own novel on my own machine. I hope it will help with the editing process as reading it in a different format may make some obvious problems stand out.


I am also hoping to publish a small non-fiction book shortly which has illustrations so it will be useful to see how they look.


I shall still continue to try and get my work published in the normal way but I see the world of publishing ebooks as an exciting new alternative and I have nothing to lose by trying.

3 comments:

  1. As I expect you have discovered your new toy will also read your book to you. I published my first Kindle eBook recently but had to ask a friend to download it to their Kindle (as I don't own one!) to see how it looked. Which was different from my Kindle previewer on my laptop. Have fun with the formatting.

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    1. Thanks Rob, it's a little bit scary as I am not very good with the all the technical bits but it's a great way to learn all these things. I just want to take my time now to get it right before it goes out into the world of Kindle.

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