Mockingjay release day!

Mockingjay is out today!  And that is an unintentional rhyme, but that is ok.  I actually pre-ordered it from a bookstore, but then when it came down to it, I decided to just download it onto my Nook and then this weekend I will go pick up by hardback copy.  I own the first two in hardback so I need to get the set, but it was just easier to download it this morning so I can hopefully sneak in a little reading here and there and then of course on break and at lunch and I'll bring it up for my reference desks shift.  I am so excited to find out what happens.  I cannot wait.  I hope it is as amazingly good as the first two.

Nook

Well, I got a Barnes and Noble Nook for Christmas this year. And, of course, I personalized it right away. So behold Deep Thought.

It is really cool and I love it.  So far I've only downloaded a couple of free books (A Little Princess, Suite Scarlett to name two) and I added an e-book I had bought a couple of months ago (Cleolinda's M15M Wizards) with no problem.  I'm planning on buying very carefully and starting with the free samples and if I like what I read then I will buy it.  I wish my local library would get Overdrive e-books or something and then I could check out books from them.  But anyway, it works really well, though there is a little lag time in changing pages but nothing that bothers me.  And the battery lasts a long time.

My only real problem came on Christmas day when it fell off the desk it was charging on and the metal part of the power cable broke off from the rest of the cable.  And since it was over Christmas it was impossible to find someone to help me.  So when I finally got to the right department, the guy was like No problem and they had a new USB cable at my house the next day.

But anyway, now it is fine and I like reading on it a lot.  It's not like reading on a computer screen.  It actually looks papery.  So far, it's been a worthy investment.