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First of all, I don’t have a kindle tablet like the kindle fire.  I don’t even have a tablet, but I am working on it and waiting for the right one to come along. However,  my wife does have the apple ipad 64GB and she reads a ton of books.  She discovered that amazon gives away the top 100 books for free. Here is the link: Free Kindle books

So I decided to get the kindle app on my computer and on my android phone.  Both work fine, but the phone is too small for me.  I have over 600 books from amazon mostly kept in the cloud server, but I have about 100 downloaded into my laptop.  I have read 2 books so far and really want to get a tablet soon because they are great reading devices.  I know that because my wife enjoys reading books on her ipad.

When I was young in grade school, I remember ordering 1 or 2 books through school and would wait for about a month or two before they were delivered.  The feeling was excitement when they finally came in and the teacher distributed them out.  Brand new books with pictures in them about everything kids like to imagine about.  I remember reading them all in a day.

In high school, I would frequent the library everyday.  Yes, I was a complete nerd and book smart.  I liked the idea of checking out books 4 or 5 at a time for 2 weeks.  I just didn’t like returning them because I wanted my own little library.  I would even frequent the public library and read there on weekends.  This was on top of the comic books I read every week.

I think it was in college when I lost interest in books.  They became books I had to read and not enjoy.  Don’t get me wrong, I still like books but became burnt out when I was taking classes concurrently at Cerritos College and Woodbury University.   It was a lot of text book reading and tons of memorizing for many exams.    That is how I was able to finish my education in less than 3 years in 2 degree programs.  I was a stud nerd and had an aptitude for short term memorization for test taking which allowed me to graduate with honors.

Since my college days, I have not wanted to read books.  However, now that I have discovered you can have a virtual library in your computer or tablet, my interest has piqued.  I have read two business type books for my enjoyment  vs a requirement for some class.  I liked being able to learn for my own edification and think I will try to read more books now.

Don’t worry, out of the 600+ books I have purchased for free, I have loaned them out through Ebook Fling.  I would say about 321 books to be exact.  If you like books, you should join because it is free ebooks.

It’s funny the last comment made me reminisce about my school days at Woodbury University.  It has been over twenty years since I graduated, but I remember it like yesterday.  Thanks for stopping by and have an excellent day.