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By Joe Wikert

image That’s a question I’ve heard a lot lately. Kindle owners and non-Kindle owners are curious to hear what’s loaded on my device.

Here’s a quick rundown of the content now on my Kindle:

  • The New York Times — I finally got around to deleting older papers but I still have the last 4 days worth.
  • The Shack — I finished reading this one a couple of weeks ago but I can’t bring myself to delete it. Am I the only one who has a hard time deleting books after they’ve been read? Btw, I was so engrossed in this book that I wound up buying it for my Kindle despite the fact that the publisher sent me a free review copy to read. Why? I forgot to bring it with me on a recent business trip and didn’t want to wait till I got home to finish it. Ah, the power of the $9.99 price point!
  • The Bible — My very first purchase. I chose the NASB edition because so many other Kindle readers recommended it over all the others.

  • Time Magazine — My one and only magazine subscription. It’s not as enjoyable a read as the print version but it’s close enough.
  • AP US News feed — For a couple of bucks a month I get all the latest news stories pushed to me throughout the day. Great bargain.
  • Mitch Albom’s Commencement Speech — Again, I can’t seem to delete things I’ve already read…
  • Animal Farm — One of the freebie books I downloaded from Feedbooks, I believe.
    Samples from 22 books — Yes, that’s right…22 different book samples. I’m a sampling freak. I love it that I can test drive just enough of the content before paying a penny. It’s also saved me from buying a few duds along the way.
  • 8 different Feedbook RSS feeds — What a fantastic (free) service. If you’re not using this one you need to.
  • At least a dozen different work-related documents — I also love Amazon’s free .doc and .pdf conversion service. I work with a lot of Word and Acrobat files throughout the day and it’s wonderful having access to them on the Kindle.

There are a few more test files and other odds and ends on my Kindle, so many, in fact, that I have to navigate through six full screens of homepage content to see it all. I’m using about half the available memory and I have a 2 Gig SD card inserted that’s full of classical music. There’s nothing like a bit of Strauss when you’re reading the latest news.

 
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