My friend called me a Neo-Luddite

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32. Interesting. I am somewhat similiar ...

I also have text blocked on my cell phone which I rarely use and only for emergencies. I don't have an ipod and have no interest in owning one.

However I have a Kindle and a Kindle Fire. I love reading and have found these devices enhance my enjoyment. With the basic Kindle, I find it far easier to read in bed with which I usually do for 3 for 4 hours before I go to sleep. It's light and easy to hold with one hand. I do have to have a light on with this device but since I have no current partner, this presents no problem. My favorite feature of the basic Kindle is its ability to search books. If I am reading a novel and am unsure of who an obscure character is, I can simply type his name in the search feature and I will call up every incidence in which the character appears. I can also search every reference to an item in all the books I have stored on the Kindle and in a few seconds I have the results. I currently have 281 books on this device and some are collections, for example, the complete works of William Shakespeare, Jack London, Mark Twain etc. These collections were free or inexpensive. Imagine how much space such a collection of books would require and how much time I would spend to research a topic.

The basic Kindle will access the internet but the Kindle Fire is much better for this task. It also allows me to play games such as Sudoku, chess, solitaire, poker and blackjack and a large number of more advanced games such as Sim City and John Madden football and Angry Birds if I chose. Most of these games were free or very inexpensive. I can check weather radar if my NOAA weather radio alerts me during the night without running into the living room and turning on my laptop. I can even watch movies. I often like to look at breaking news before I fall asleep and this device enables me to do this and far more.

Since I bought my basic Kindle I actually dislike reading dead tree books.

In my opinion we are both semi-Luddites. This is not necessarily bad.