When my sister visited me last year from Canada she got me the perfect gift – the Amazon Kindle! I was thrilled to bits and totally loved it. The whole kindle experience is seamless, from browsing for books, buying them and downloading them to your kindle…. Everything can be done under a minute and you can start reading your new book.

The device is light weight and idiot proof in terms of use. I loved the features of changing text size, dictionary, note making etc. I also downloaded the kindle app on my android phone. Sometimes, when I would find it impossible to stop reading because of a really engrossing plot, I would hide in my office loo and continue to read the book on my phone! (I know the kindle is portable, but hey I cant carry it to the loo without being stared upon) I loved the fact that I could continue to read my book on my phone and then sync it with my kindle when I got home and start reading from where I left off reading on the phone…. ahh… the magic of technology :)

Some of the other features in the kindle are nice but really not useful currently…. One being the ‘text to speech’ one. It’s fun to hear the mechanical voice read the book out to you for a bit… but one can’t really enjoy books that way.

The only issue I have with the Kindle is that buying kindle books is expensive, especially when you are in India and physical books cost so much less. The average cost per kindle book is approximately $10. That’s about Rs. 500 when converted to Indian Rupees. On an average a physical book from a nice book store in India costs between Rs. 250 – 350.