Be Excellent To Each Other

So: we're going on holiday in late August. Ideally I'd have another Kindle so that we could have one each (we're both big reading-by-the-pool people and iPads no worky in direct sunshine). I was considering buying another, but there's rumours that the possible launch of an Amazon tablet (perhaps as soon as October) might also bring a "new, improved, cheaper" Kindle (and the touch screen Nook does suggest a new Kindle might be along soon). So I don't think now is a good time to buy. Particularly if I buy that tasty looking £50 lighted case and then the new one doesn't fit inside it.

And hence my cheeky question. Does anyone have a Kindle (of any flavour) they wouldn't mind us borrowing for a week?

Less reading, more sexy time.

If only there was some kind of alternative to a Kindle. You know, something cheap, easily available and with a choice of millions of titles.

...that weighs 150 grams for ten thousand books.

I would, but I wouldn't get through a week without it, sorry!

Most hotel rooms come with a big bumper compendium of 50 or so books in one handy package. That could last you for a while.

Save money on expensive flights and just sit next to your local indoor swimming pool and read your iPad.

You could share a book, like these two:

Heh.

"We've had this book analysed and it reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse"

So you can read 10,000 books in a week?

No. But I can easily read up to a dozen in a lazy week. I read two books on a plane once.

Have a swim and a bevvy ffs.

I can't swim!

There are books on the subject.

[makes note of this on special list of poster weaknesses for the final days]

An extreme way of avoiding triathalons, that.

This forum is the best forum ever for not addressing the original question and instead suggesting that the OP do something entirely different instead

To be fair, people lived before Kindles were invented and would you let someone fly your Kindle somewhere?

By the way if anyone has a Porsche they want to lend me for a week, that would be nice.

Relevant: I don't have a kindle.

I think the Doc should buy a new router.

Fuck it, I'm going to buy another, but skip the super expensive case. Thanks BeeX!

No problem.

You can borrow mine if you want. I don't use it as much when it is warm, as it normally lives in my suit jacket pocket, so when not wearing a jacket it's a pain.

Outted:

I know of a hefty Welsh language encyclopedia you could take with you, if that helps? About eight volumes, from memory.

You really should learn to swim, Doc.

No entries for A,E,I,O or U

For your notebook: I cannot swim either.

This sounds like some fat bloke who has memorised an encyclopedia and wants a free holiday.

Alas, I have not memorised an encyclopedia.

Kindle? You want to buy a Cibrushsille.

My faither cannae swim and he's worked on boats & oilrigs all his life

... & no he never wore a lifejacket/buoyancy aid when he was on the trawler, even when he was out by himself. One more thing to get caught & if the net's pulling/pushing you under you're probably dead anyway.

Ok.

Just be careful when you're on the Trawlers, Doc.

Noted.

I can't swim either, I just bob around in a pool

*Starts planning waterpark meet*

Captain Cook couldn't swim. Which, ironically, directly led to him being eaten.

I can swim because my Dad loved me and took me to swimming lessons when I was young.

I had school swimming lessons and got my red badge (one narrow length, cannot remember if unaided), but I was too scared to try for the yellow, as that meant going near the deep end.

I had school swimming lessons every week for about 2 years, still can't swim. I don't float, which my gf doesn't believe is possible, yet I have demonstrated on numerous occasions.

For most people whether or not you are buoyant just depends how much breath you have in your lungs.

Correct. I used to love sitting on the bottom of the pool, but you had to breathe out first.

we just took a few books and one kindle, so we could share that way..

anyway, not swimming, for a dutchman that sounds err foreign...

(A,B,C, rescue and padi)

Whereas I would end up sitting on the bottom of the pool, regardless of how much I breathed in.

You should have took a Kindle instead of all those books.

You are me, and I claim my £5.

Numerous friends, family, and ex-girlfriends have tried to teach me to swim. It always goes the same way. "Do this... no, like this... OK, now do this with your feet... no, more gently... yes.. hmmm... WHY ARE YOU STILL SINKING?!?"

Clearly, the water wishes to claim you as its own.