So!!! The Kindle is now international!! there are, it seems, some problems with the copyrights and so on and so forth. Nevertheless, 250,000 books is still a good number to start with for me! So, hopefully, I get to save enough for the Kindle or get blessed with one (AHEM) but otherwise, here’s a dream list of books/mags to start with:

Hood By Stephen Lawhead
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (all the hype made me curious)
Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
any of the books by Dean Koontz
any of the books by Tess Gerritsen
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Sookie Stackhouse series!! by Charlaine Harris (i already have them on email, but i wonder if i could transfer them off to the kindle… hrmm…)
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner (pretty HILARIOUS.)
Arguing with Idiots by Kevin Balfe
Books by Stephen King
The Silver Serpent by David Debord
Books by Chris Kuzneski
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Antony Beevor History books
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies by Linda Kerber
The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire by Cynthia Enloe
Politics: a Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Subscriptions:
Foreign Affairs
Time Magazine
The New York Times
Frankfurter Allegemaine

woo that’s a huge list.

Just a word of warning: After drooling over the Amazon Website for days, I have come to realise (with some disappointment) that there’s alot of books we can NOT get here. even if we use cards, addresses, and what gives, the Kindle will recognise that we are overseas and will hinder that download. These includes alot of popular authors (and their entire written works), newspapers, magazines and even blogs that you pay to have rss feed of.

Obviously, I feel jibbed. Like a second class citizen of the world. Then again, looking at the broad list of stuff to read above, I highly doubt I need to worry about it. There are some books, because of their actual content, that I can take whole YEARS to read no matter how much I like the Topic. Take Freakonomics. I have had the book for 2 years now, and I have yet to complete it even though I like the book, it’s not hard to read it and it’s definitely not a textbook. of course, the fact that I drown it in my toilet might be a problem.

it is in that hope that in the years it will take me to read books that books that are not available now would eventually be available on the Kindle.

yes yes, I promised alot of things that I haven’t got around to posting. I have 2 drafts in the works that was written MONTHS ago that I never put up. I am busy. get use to it ^_^