Contest time! I'm sitting over here, reading, so here's Ruthie Knox to tell you about the contest we're hosting this week!
The Contest!
Pimp My Read is your chance to win one of four fantastic e-readers, as well as best-selling, super-sexy, fun contemporary romances by authors Ruthie Knox, Sarah Mayberry, Shannon Stacey, and Molly O’Keefe. This week, we four authors bedeck ourselves in (virtual) feathers and gold chains, climb on top of our Pimp Caddies, and sing the praises of e-readers and digital books at four fantastic romance review sites: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, Smexybooks, Dear Author, and The Season for Romance. At every site, one of us is giving away an e-reader, as well as prizes for runners-up. If you’ve been on the fence about which e-reader to get, or even why you would get one—or if you love your e-reader to bits and are dying to convert a friend or family member to the digital side—this is the contest you’ve been waiting for!
The Prizes!
Sarah Mayberry is giving away a Kindle Touch 3G at Smexybooks,
Shannon Stacey is giving away a Nook SimpleTouch with Glowlight at Dear Author,
Ruthie Knox is giving away a Kindle Keyboard 3G at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books,
and Molly O’Keefe is giving away a Kobo Touch at The Season for Romance.
The winner of each e-reader and two runners-up at each site will also receive Exclusively Yours, Undeniably Yours, and Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey, Her Best Worst Mistake and Within Reach by Sarah Mayberry, About Last Night and Ride With Me by Ruthie Knox, and Can’t Buy Me Love by Molly O’Keefe.
Make It So: Ruthie’s Conversion Story
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and one of the things I’ve noticed is that everybody on the Enterprise has a Kindle Fire. Or possibly an iPad. Same size, same shape, same ability to pull up amazing amounts of information with the tap of a finger. Whenever Captain Picard needed to find out the specs on a mission or read about some obscure eighteenth-century French composer and Data wasn’t around, he always had his Unnamed Awesome Device (UAD) at hand to poke and frown at.
The Next Generation debuted in 1987, so that means that I wanted a UAD of my own for … *squinches forehead, crunches numbers* … twenty-one years before I got one. But once I got one, I gave up print books altogether.
Precipitous? Perhaps. But I had my reasons. First, I hate having things. I prefer to have the bare minimum number of things. Like, in the ideal world, I would be a bachelor with cinderblock bookshelves and two cans of soup in the pantry. But I read so much. And as you probably all know, when you read a lot, there’s this constant stream of books into the house. Sure, some of them are library books, but even library junkies end up with dozens of new books every year that have to be coped with. I don’t want to shelve them or keep them or pass them along to friends or send them to the paperback exchange. I want them to disappear!
Now that I have an e-reader, they do. I read the last line, I smile, I delete. Off to the archive the book goes, and I never have to think about it again unless I want to. I love living in the future!
The other extenuating factor is that books are heavy, cumbersome things. I think I strained my wrists holding the Twilight books above my head as I read them on the couch. Worse, sometimes I want to read and do other stuff at the same time, and that’s even harder. I figured out how to walk and read as a kid, no problem. Later, when I became an obsessive knitter, I learned to knit and read. I read the last Harry Potter book spread open on my lap, pages held by a book weight so I’d have my hands free to knit. But sometimes the book slid off and hit the floor, which was a bummer.
Then I had a baby, and the whole system went to hell. You know, it’s really hard to read and breast-feed at the same time. Sure, yes, yes, at first I thought I’d just want to stare at my baby and appreciate the miracle of life while I breast-fed him and bonded at some deep, cosmic level, but in fact that phase only lasted about two days. Babies eat slow, y’all. I needed a book. And it’s very hard to hold a book with one hand while you hold a baby with the other. You have to do that thing where you spread the book open with your thumb and your pinky, and my pinkies soon wearied of their new job.
Then one day in the hazy winter of 2008, my husband—who’s a bit of a computer nerd—walked into the living room and said, “Come in my office. You have to see this.”
“This” was the movie-ad-thing for the Kindle 2. Small! White! Attractive! Lightweight! Four bazillion dollars! “Order it,” I said. “Order it right now.” And God bless him, he did.
Some things about living in the future are not as exciting as I had hoped they would be. Transportation, for instance, seems much less cool than it did seventy-five years ago. (Have you ever seen the trains of the 1950s? They were awesome!) Cooking is still a lot of work. Strange men still show up at my door trying to sell me magazines, and I don’t know how to make them stop. But I can now buy a book in my living room, read it immediately, and discard it—all without actually having to move my butt off my couch or strain my delicate girl-wrists. Guys, this is EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED.
Or almost everything. I think the e-reader designers of the future should make readers that beep when you lose them, because I’m always leaving mine somewhere random, like on top of the refrigerator or beside the bathroom sink, and then not being able to find it later. I bet Picard’s UAD had a beeper.
But enough about me—let’s talk about you! Were you an early convert to the e-reader or a reluctant late adopter? Or are you still holding out, waiting for somebody to talk you into this madness? Do you love your e-reader with a devotion bordering on the manic and wish you could talk your mom/grandma/best friend/husband into getting one? I’m giving away a Kindle Keyboard 3G (my device of choice) to the commenter who convinces me she (or he) has the best reason for wanting it for themselves or someone else, so let’s hear your stories. Two runners-up will get books, books, books!
The Fine Print (From Ruthie)
1. Feel free to increase your chances of winning by entering once at each of the four sites! But please, only one entry per site. Deliberate multiple comments on any individual e-reader giveaway post will get you disqualified.
2. The contest opens on each site when the post goes live and closes at 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, July 20.
3. Ruthie, Sarah (Mayberry), Shannon, and Molly will choose the winners from among the comments on the site where each posts. Feel free to entertain us or tug at our heartstrings — we’ll pick the winners whose comments most effectively sway us!
4. No purchase necessary. You must be 18 years of age or older to enter.
5. This contest is open internationally. The e-readers on offer will work in many, but not all, countries. Please be aware that geographical restrictions may affect your ability to use/enjoy your prize.
The Disclaimers (from SB Sarah)
1. I'm not being compensated for this giveaway. I mean, I got to look at Jean Luc Picard, which is never a bad thing, but otherwise, no compensation.
2. Void where prohibited.
3. Must be over 18, as stated above, plus wearing a riding habit, preferably with a jaunty feather.
4. Call before you dig. Call after you downward dog. Adding a comma makes that sentence even more fun!
How To Enter
To enter, leave a comment explaining either (a) why you want to win this e-reader for yourself or (b) why you want to win it for someone else. (Please include your e-mail address in the appropriate comment field so we have a way of contacting you if you win. Your e-mail address will not be visible to the general commenting public.)
So, let's hear it – you want it for yourself, or as a gift? Bring on the entries!
To use Ruth’s words – please “MAKE IT SO!”
Those three simple words are letting you know that I’d would love to win an e-reader for a special someone.
I have to go back first to May of 1969. I had gone to college while working full time in Arizona and had recently moved to Florida on the fateful day it all began. Before leaving Arizona I had realized and accepted I would probably never find “the one” and after a long struggle resigned myself that I was okay in making my own way in the world – one too many “boyfriends” had broken my heart.
Then I met the most inappropriate man I had ever met. It was the height of the war in Vietnam and he was in the Navy stationed on an aircraft carrier and his job was to load bombs on airplanes – in a war zone! Not exactly a good safe place to be in the world! On the other hand he was kind, considerate and actually LISTENED to what I had to say!
Fortunately several months later he was transferred to a local Air Station and I saw him again. Sometimes you don’t realize how important someone is to you until they safely return to your world.
We first met in May, 1969, married in February, 1970 and this year celebrated our 42nd anniversary.
Besides me, my sons and our grandchildren the thing my husband loves the most is reading – anytime, anyplace! I’d love to “Make His Day” and surprise him with an e-reader so he could have the books he loves stored and ready to read!
He’s done so much over the years not only for his family but in our community and for our country (after Vietnam he joined the Navy Reserves and was a “week-end warrior” for 25 years) and I’d love for him to realize how much that means not just to me but to others as well.
jeannemiro(at)yahoo(dot)com
OMG I could of written Ruthie’s post! I totally remember trying to breastfeed and read at the same time. It sucked!
I was converted over to a Kindle after seeing a cousin with the original Kindle and immediatly ordered myself the Kindle2 as my birthday, mothers day and anniversary present all wrapped up into one about 3 years ago.
When they came out with the Kindle 3 my husband (very reluctanly) bought me one for Christmas and I gave away my K2. But last summer it was stolen out of my truck while at a concert. I was completely devistated! Forget the damage done to my truck…all I cared about was my Kindle. The only saving grace was that my daughter had bought herself a Kindle 2 which I have since stolen.
My kindle is like an extension of myself. It goes everywhere with me! I am completely addicted to it! I even listen to the text to speech function in the car when I am alone. I truely miss the Kindle 3 and would love to have another one!
Maybe I want my own replacement Kindle–since mine is broken–but it’s for my sister that I’m entering this contest. Reading for many of us provides respite from our busy lives and busy minds, and my sis could use something special, just for her. She’s a new mom with a beautiful 2 month old girl. She’s on her own right now in her journey as a parent. She made her own family with this new little love. I love her and wish I lived in the same time zone as her, heck, down the street, so I could be there for her. But I settle for texting and skyping. It’s not nearly enough. If you decide to award me with an e-reader for her, it won’t be enough either. But it will be a small reminder to a new mom that she matters too in her 24-hour cycle of caring for a newborn. Her dreams, her needs, her wishes matter too. All new moms lose themselves a bit in that first year. I’m asking you’all to help me remind her of herself.
Secondly, When it comes to lessons in love, my sister’s taught me some of the most important ones. First, don’t hold back. Love can’t be measured out. Second, know that you deserve the same in return. And, maybe the best and bravest lesson of all: Never stop looking for love or stop believing you’ll find it. Above all, she teaches me to have faith. Faith in love. People like her shake their heads, not unkindly, at people like me who value control and making plans a little too much.
So, you see, she’s already my prize. But just now she’s an exhausted, single parent whose crazy in love with her baby girl, and I’d like to give her this prize as a small token for all she means to me.
I’d love to win this e-reader for myself – if nothing else at least to see one up close. I’m living in Portugal where e-reading is not yet mainstream and I actually don’t know if any portuguese editors are branching out into e-publishing. I read a lot of English books thanks to amazon but there’s a lot that is only published digitally and it would be fantastic to be able to read on an actual device instead of a laptop.
Oh how much would I love to have ANY kind of e-reader. Our finances are always tight, and despite how far “ahead” we get, it never fails that some emergency comes along and wipes out what little savings we have managed to set aside. Hubby and I both have a tendency to put everyone else’ needs or wants before our own (which is the correct thing to do) but it does get depressing when your husband TELLS you that you ARE going to get your bangs trimmed when you really don’t want to spend the money on trivial but needed expenditures (and I am talking $14 for a haircut, not going to a bells and whistles salon that charge $50+ for the uber-fancy wash, condition, cut, blow dry and style. I am talking the basic Great Clips, walk in, get caped, combed, cut and sent on your merry way). This has been our existence for years thanks to lack of job availability, under paid, and monthly bills that unmercifully equal the amount of income we get. Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely thankful that we have income enough to cover all of our monthly bills and give us enough to cover the NECESSITIES in life, but it would be nice for once to get something that we WANT as opposed to things that are NEEDED. I thank God that we have the means to keep a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, food on our table, and a vehicle to get us around, but it is nice to dream about having something FUN that both me and hubby could use (and even the kids come to that) and not have to worry about it breaking the bank. My main desire, if I won, would be to give this to my husband who always puts himself last on everything (It is like pulling teeth to convince my hubby to let me buy him a new pair of jeans because his old pair is literally falling apart from usage because he doesn’t want me to spend the $10 for a new pair (I kid you not, $10 for a new pair of jeans) for HIM! Bless him that he is not a selfish, self centered, demanding individual but I would love to give back something to him that we didn’t have to scrape up and save MONTHS for without it setting us back elsewhere. I would love to be able to see his face as I handed him over the package to open and then INSIST to him that it belongs to HIM ALONE when he tries to convince me that he wants me to have it instead, that is the type of man he is, always putting others before himself.
I would love to give this to my sister. We started a weight loss journey together and while I enjoy rocking out to music on the treadmill she prefers to read (I don’t get it). So, instead of her lugging around books I think she would benefit greatly from a light weight Kindle for her trips to the gym.
I have always been a reader. (I too can walk while reading and found reading while nursing to be tough on the pinkies) Since I grew up and moved out of my mother’s tiny house, I have had apartments filled with box cases, as I am a rereader and can not get rid of a book that I might possibly want to read again. I have books and series that I reread ever year or two.
Two years ago, my husband, daughter and I moved in with my mother. She has severe RA and has found most of the daily things that we take for granted almost imposible to do. It has worked very well for all involved except for one thing—the house is so tiny, I cannot fin room for a single one of my book shelves and all of my books have been in strage since we moved in.
Last Christmas, my mother and husband went in together and bought me a Kindle and I have been hooked ever since. They both have since got Pandigital Novas with Nook reader. The only person left is my daughter.
My daughter is 13 and a late reader. She did not begin pleasure reader until a couple of years ago and seems to be trying to make up for it by reading as much as she can. Without space to store them, we are leary of buying as many books as she may want and we live quite a distance from the local library. A Kindle would allow her to borrow remotely from the library system and carry as many purchased books as she wants to. She would absolutely love this!
I want it for myself. I love to read and this will make my life so much easier plus free up space on what is suppose to be my nightstand but is currently a book shelf.
I was an early Kindle adopter – and by early I mean I had the first version pre-ordered before it ever came out, and I cried with happiness the day it arrived – out of the kind of bookshelf space desperation only a tiny Manhattan studio apartment can generate. I loved it immediately, and used it until it died, at which point I stole my boyfriend’s fancy generation 2 Kindle. But then he got me an iPad for Christmas, and in my shiny new toy happiness I thought I wouldn’t need the Kindle anymore, so I gave it to the babysitter a friend of mine uses (since she could not have afforded it otherwise, and commutes long distances by train). But oh, even with the iPad I miss having the real deal. There’s something so book-like about the experience of reading on it, only without the weight overages in my suitcase when I travel. I can’t seem to justify buying it for myself, but to win it would be all kinds of awesome.
I would love to win this for myself however, I have a Nook and therefore would love to win this Kindle for my 11 year old son. We both have a love for reading and we share my Nook as much as we can. This year he has asked for a Kindle or Nook for himself (along with an ipad among other things). I would love to further expand his reading list and imagination by being able to give him more books on a Kindle as they are more affordable. He has informed me that he needs a Kindle or Nook desperately since I have used all the bookshelf space with my books.
I was a late Kindle adopter. I didn’t get one until…oh…May of this year. I originally got it because I wanted to read ebooks (especially m/m romance, of which many are available only in eformat). I’ve also been attempting to transition to a more minimalist lifestyle – which is hard to do when you have a thousand books all over your apartment. Lastly, hauling books overseas in my duffel bags when I was deployed was fun, but a Kindle would’ve made it much easier – and I could’ve loaded up on new books while on leave, instead of being bored out in the middle of nowhere for the last two weeks of my deployment.
I would bit a little selfish here and keep it… well, maybe not selfish as everyone I know either has an e-reader already or likes the regular way of reading books 🙂
I would love to have a dedicated ereader. My old ereader, a first gen Kobo, has finally bitten the dust. After 3 dedicated years of service, it won’t update or load books. I have read (pardon my language) a shit ton of books on it, so it served me well.
I do have a tablet which I read on, but it’s supposed to be for work. And I can’t take it to the lake, beach or pool during my precious week of summer vacation, for fear that it might get damaged. So I’m throwing myself of the mercy of the judges – I mean authors – hoping that I am lucky enough to win a Kindle.
I was decidedly against e-readers for a long time. I love books. The way they feel, the way they smell, even the space they take up on my bookshelves excites me. If I’m stressed the used bookstore is where I go to unwind. I love wandering up and down the aisles, list in hand, hunting for books by my favorite authors.
So a couple of years ago my dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas and my answer was tires. We were broke and I badly needed new tires for my car. I wanted money to go toward new tires and nothing else. Well, Dad didn’t think that was a very fun gift. I don’t know if he didn’t think I was serious or what but he just said “oh, nobody wants tires for Christmas.”
Instead he gave me a Nook and I proceeded to have a meltdown of epic proportions. At one point I was hiding in my car crying on the phone to my mom. It was ridiculous!
Before you judge me, just know that every one of my friends, my mom, husband and children all knew that I was anti-e-reader. With the stress of the holidays and everything else going on at that time I just cracked. I couldn’t believe he knew so little about me to think that I’d want such a pricey item when I needed new freaking tires. Plus we couldn’t even afford internet at that time, I couldn’t have downloaded a book if I’d wanted to.
I accepted the gift and tried hard not to let on that I was upset. Poor Dad, he knew how much I like to read and really was trying to give me a nice gift. In the end, my mama came to my rescue with the tires and I returned the Nook for some much needed clothes. Dad wasn’t upset that I returned his gift and was happy I got some clothes that I wanted and needed. Long story short, I made a big fuss over nothing.
So why do I want to win a Kindle? After that Christmas I started following some book blogs and discovered some pretty amazing authors. Too many times when I’ve gone to order new books I find that they’re only available in Kindle edition. I’ve decided I’ve got to get on the e-reader team if I want to keep up. And I’d like to think that I’ve matured a little and can now handle the transition to digital.
I’ve put a Kindle and big fat Amazon gift card on my Christmas list this year. Hopefully Santa can forgive my sins of Christmas’ past. Thanks for doing a give away, I’m continually amazed by how good romance and paranormal romance authors are to their fans!
I…have a confession. I have never read anything on an e-reader of any description. My fogey parents (a term lovingly borrowed from Garrison Keillor) even each have a Nook, but I have…nada. Part of this comes from a pure and simply case of missing the bandwagon departure. I must have still been in the lounge waiting for my tea to cool or something; all I know is that by the time it did and I drank that wagon was long gone. Bandwagons are tough to chase down, dammit!
Another factor has been cost. Smack-dab in the middle of a postgraduate degree, most of my available funds go to food and textbooks, leaving an e-reader firmly in the realm of “maybe one day”. My studenting has also led to (academic! really!) cavorting around Europe, making an e-reader wistfully handy, but complicated to attain.
I travel a lot, for conferences, for visiting far-away friends and family, and certainly can’t deny that an e-reader would be a useful companion. Up to now I’ve been rather leery of them, clutching to my print and page-flippable books…but you know, I’ve heard good things about them, and I’m even considering publishing my own book as an e-book, so I’m thinking…perhaps it’s time to give the Kindle a try. Perhaps it’s time to give an e-reader a chance to convert me. Should I win, I’d look forward to the opportunity!
I had a kindle. it changed my life. I got it when my daughter was 10mo. I could BF and read. I could bring many books on a plane when traveling for work. I could read in bed. then, I had it in a plane pocket and had to juggle a toddler and bags and get out of the way. I lost my kindle. sadness.
I thought a Fire would work and get cool functionality. but no – you can’t read with sunglasses, or bright light, and you can’t lock the rotation. first world problems…
my awesome husband doesn’t want me to have two kindles, when one functions just fine. but he doesn’t get it. so now I just hope to win one, since he can’t object then, right?
I would love to win an ereader for myself! My Nook is in a sorry
state. I have one of the first gens and it has been awesome, however
its really taken a beating. I’ve clicked the page forward and
backward buttons so many times that they’ve cracked the frame and
my darling little demonesses just LOVE to get their paws on it any
chance they get (they steal my booklights too!) Well, let’s just say
the screen is cracked a little and I haven’t seen a booklight in the
last month. Anyway, thank you for the giveaway and the chance to win
a new one. I could really use it! Though I don’t know about wearing a riding habit with a jaunty feather… Could we skip the feather?
I have an old skool Kindle, but I’d love to win a new one for 10-year-old sons to use. They’re old enough to read “real” books now, but they don’t always have the endurance to keep reading something long. I figure that disguising good books in the shape and form of a cool electronic device would keep them interested in a way that a giant library hardcover wouldn’t. (As you can imagine, I’m willing to jump through many a hoop if it means that my boys will come to love reading as much as I do!)
I have an e-reader. I love my e-reader. I love it so much that I’m the only one allowed to touch it. I’ve reconsidered after seeing my son curled up with a book (in the middle of the floor in the family room!). Spencer was born with a cranio-facial abnormality that makes speech difficult. When one has trouble speaking, one usually has difficulty reading. It’s been a long, hard journey, but Spencer is making progress. Reading has always been a chore until this summer when he fell in love with Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid books. I broke my rules & let him read a book on my nook. He loved it. Now, I want to share my e-reader with him but I’m 1) too selfish and 2) terrified to share my content with my 9 year-old son! So, winning this e-reader would benefit me doubly. Thanks for your consideration!
I have an e-reader. I love my e-reader. I love it so much that I’m the only one allowed to touch it. I’ve reconsidered after seeing my son curled up with a book (in the middle of the floor in the family room!). Spencer was born with a cranio-facial abnormality that makes speech difficult. When one has trouble speaking, one usually has difficulty reading. It’s been a long, hard journey, but Spencer is making progress. Reading has always been a chore until this summer when he fell in love with Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid books. I broke my rules & let him read a book on my nook. He loved it. Now, I want to share my e-reader with him but I’m 1) too selfish and 2) terrified to share my content with my 9 year-old son! So, winning this e-reader would benefit me doubly. Thanks for your consideration!
My reason needs the backstory….
4 years ago I got sick. I was sick for a year (almost exactly to the day, actually). It took two surgeries and a lot of time in bed, but I did get better. During that year, I rediscovered reading. And boy did I read a lot!
About 8 weeks after my second surgery, I noticed that my foot was hurting. It took 8 more weeks and many tests to determine that I had broken my ankle. So, I had to start 4 months of very painful, time consuming physical therapy. It was during this time that I started to realize that hauling books around was difficult and somewhat painful on the neck and shoulders. I started saving for an ereader and decided I would get it for my 42 birthday.
I hemmed and hawed that I didn’t want to spend the money. My husband literally dragged me out and forced me to buy a Kindle. And I was hooked! HOOKED! I use the Kindle all the time. I love it.
My daughter now wants a Kindle. But, they are still expensive. I told her if I got another ereader, I would give her my old one. Unfortunately, I think my beloved Kindle is dying. It keeps freezing. The read out loud function keeps quitting. And the battery discharges at an alarming rate. I have started saving again but it’s going to take a while.
I would love to win this giveaway. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I want this ereader for myself because I have always wanted one
If I won the ereader I would want it for my twin sister. She is a young mom and both her and her husband are putting themselves through college on one income. Her day consists of studying, house chores and keeping up with a four year old boy, she never complains but I know she hardly gets a moment for herself. If she had an ereader I know she would love it! It would give her an avenue for relaxation and entertainment, she is one of the dearest people on earth to me and I would love to surprise her with a gift I know she could otherwise never afford.
I would like this e-reader, because I am a bookaholic and i think it would feed my addiction 🙂
I would love to win one of the ereaders for my grandmother. She turned 83 today and is going through treatment for cancer on her eyelid. The treatment could cause her to lose her sight in that eye. She already has difficulties reading some books, due to the print being too small, but she still loves to read. She is a strong lady, already a breast cancer survivor for over 15 years and I really hope that she is able to beat this without loosing her eyesight in this eye.
I would love to win an ereader for my daughter. She has been reading on her smartphone, but the screen is so small for that…. an ereader would be so much better!!! Winning a kindle would be great because I can share my account/books with her since I have had a kindle for several years.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
lauras67 @ juno.com
I mostly check out books from the library…. When I do an ebook though I use my iphone… hello squinty eyes! I would love an actual e-reader! 🙂
I would love to have my own e-reader. I’m not tech savy. I need to be dragged into this century of tech products. We are downsizing so I like the convenience of having a lot of book choices at my fingertips without the books taking up space in my home. I’d love to be able to take advantage of the many freebies I see advertised on websites for both Kindle and Nook books.
Financially, we are in debt after assisting 4 children attain college degrees. Two are still in Grad School.
Thank you Ruth and the other authors who will make 4 peoples dream of owning an E-Reader come true. The free books are an added treat too!
I was always the one who brought the books in my family and lent it to my father and my sisters to read. My sister and I we both brought e-readers for various reasons for ourselves and are happy to swap books but this leave our father out of the circle. My father loves to read so it would be for him really because he also loves gadgets.
I want the eReader for myself, but so I can put it into use with others. I own an eReader and it is used very often and very well. I love it. But I am also a middle school teacher, and I would love to have an eReader in my classroom where my students can retreat for private reading time if they finish early. There’s such a good selection of ebooks for teens and many of the classics are free. I teach in a rural area that is low income so it is doubtful any of my kids have ereaders of their own, and this would be a great way to introduce them to reading electronically and hopefully spark a love of reading for them. I am planning on writing a grant application to buy several, but if I could win one, it would really start me off right. 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d love to win this for my husband. He bought me an e-reader for my birthday earlier this year and now is incredibly jealous of me. We’ve started working out several times a week, and he’s lost about 40lbs with 40 more to go (He seems to have reversed years of diabetes, yes! Now we’re working on reducing the risk of a second heart attack.) When we go to the gym I am too selfish to share my reader and he has to struggle with propping paper books on the little stand. I think he’d love to have his own and I think it would help him stay motivated to lose the rest.
i have a nook (1st edition), which i love. i am actually a librarian, and have been trying to talk a patron into purchasing an ereader. she has terrible arthritis, so can only hold and check out paperbacks, and she has read every romance paperback we have. no exaggeration. an ereader would open up so much for her, let her access all our downloadable materials (through OverDrive), and be even lighter and easier for her to use. thanks for such a great contest!
I would love to win an ereader because that is the only way that I could get one right now because i just can not justify buying one right not.
I want the ereader for myself because I love reading books, but lately I haven’t made the time for it because I’m in grad school. If I got a new ereader I would be so excited that I would find a way to use it and get back into reading fun books instead of dry textbooks.
I’ve been an avid Kindler since the moment they came out. In fact, the several bookcases full of books I have still unread are just as full now as when I got my first Kindle 4 years ago because I’ve done almost no paper book reading since then. However, I’m having a rough time converting friends and family, even the voracious readers among them, and I would love to win an e-reader to give to one of them. Choosing which one will be a dilemma, but I think I’m up for it.
I would actually like to win the eReader for my Dad. We got my Mom a Kindle for Christmas last year and she totally loves it. My dad wants one now! 🙂
My Dad graduated from college with his Bachelor’s Degree (in Information Assurance) this May (2012), and he is now working on his Master’s Degree. As an unemployed student myself, I didn’t get him a Graduation gift (and I feel kind of bad about it.) As a student, my dad has learned that e-textbooks are much cheaper than “real” textbooks. He has been reading them on his phone. People might wonder why I would enter my dad in a contest that would also win him Romance novels, but my dad likes to read. Period. If it is a book he’ll read it. If you leave a book on the coffee table and go to the store, it is unlikely that book will be where you left it, it doesn’t matter if the book is fantasy, romance, non-fiction or a technical manual! Therefore, I think he would enjoy the books as well! 🙂
This is a long story. Also, it’s all true. And it tells you why I want a kindle for my sister.
5 years this Thanksgiving my father got very ill. It was sudden, it was dramatic, I went to the city he lived in, >2k miles away with my laptop, a chocolate bar and a borrowed copy of Every Which Way But Dead. It is a surprisingly re-readable book. I know, because I read it over and over and over again sitting beside my father’s bed in Maimonides, while he was ill and demented and recovering and terrifyingly weak. I took sponge baths in the visitor’s bathrooms. I ate chicken soup that one of the residents brought me from the cafeteria. I read and I cried and I read and I spoon fed my father. He got better. I brought him home with me, and he moved in with my sister.
The following January, I went to a conference and I won a Kindle 1 as a doorprize. I was an instant convert – many portable books with no glare was a straight up win. My sister was a rock during our father’s illness. I got a K3 keyboard and gave my sister my K1. It became a huge joke for us, how my K3 was cursed (those blasted cover problems!) and the only good kindles were kindles that you won. We share an amazon account, and I am startled and enchanted by how sharing a bookshelf has changed and deepened our relationship. We certainly couldn’t share a room growing up, and look at us now!
My dad’s recovery plateaued and then he became sick again. This time, there wasn’t going to be a recovery. I flew back to the east coast, equipped with 2 chocolate bars, some clean underwear, a jacket and my kindle. My sister flew in with nothing but her kindle, and when they life-flighted him back home with us 2 days later, we took turns reading to him on the plane. He lasted another 3 weeks, and we spent that time with him, talking to him, reading aloud to him and each other, and reading to ourselves in the hospice unit. Lord, how we read.
That original K1 doesn’t hold a charge. She can’t read unless it’s plugged in. I would like to be able to give my sister a kindle that works. She has a new job, she travels a great deal for work, and right now neither of us have the resources to replace that K1, and we won’t for a while.
I would love to win this for my mom. She is recovering from cancer and it would be something she would love. She always took care of my sister and I and now its our turn. With paying her medical bills the extra expense isnt something we can manage. I would love to make her smile by winning this for her. Thank you for having such an awesome giveaway! wendynjason04 @ gmail.com
I would love to win one. I can only download books to my computer. I afraid one day my computer is going to crash from all the books Ive downloaded. I love to read.
This would be a gift for my stepsister. I want to give her a special gift of an ereader to show her how much I admire all that she has done with her life! She has gone from being on welfare to attending a private school (all on loan!), working part-time and being promoted to manager in a short period of time! In addition she is very active in her church, an advocate to special need children, and raising her 3 children by herself (ages 16, 14, and 8)!