The Bourne Identity and sequels are frequently run on TV and I watch them over and over. I downloaded the book onto my Kindle and really enjoyed it but it bears very little resemblance to the film. About the only thing the movie took from the book was a CIA spy with amnesia and “the company” is out to get him. There was so much more to the original story. It was fascinating.

Although I love Matt Damon in the movies, based only on my reading of the book, I would have chosen someone like Daniel Craig or John Caviezel to play the spy because the role seemed to call for someone less boyish than Damon. The book’s female character was also a key role in that the love story was more important and the woman was a Canadian and a financial wiz who helped Bourne with the intricate money issues that came up. Ludlum had an ingenious plotting talent and I am sorry he isn’t alive and still writing. He died in 2001 at 73. I recommend the book.
I am now reading Dewey, the story about the library cat. Charming.

I only download one book at a time because I am sometimes slow to finish and don’t want the loan to expire while I am still reading. The other thing that is troublesome is that many of the books I would like to read aren’t available for download. The ones I do want are often on a waiting list, although I do not understand why an electronic media should have a waiting list. I am informed by E mail when the book is available. I am 27th on the list for one mystery title. Gimme a break.

So the Kindle in some ways has been disappointing. Also, it is easy for your place to suddenly be lost and there is a menu where you can “go to last page read”, but that doesn’t always work. Some titles use a different location numbering system, not page numbers, and that is truly annoying. Another missing convenience is in knowing how much more there is to read.

I will add that for fast readers, you are constantly having to slide the page to the next screen. It is annoying enough for me, but for Ed, a speed reader, it is very irritating.

It is easy to carry, however, instead of a heavy book if you would like to read while sitting in someone’s waiting room. I have often felt like leaving a note in some doctors’ offices, about the dreadful magazines they offer (indeed, if any at all). Yachting, sports stuff, car mags, or “for the little ladies”, high fashion mags (I do like to look at the photos), or Good Housekeeping, or pediatric mags if you are in a gyno’s office. And in the imaging facility down here, land of the intransigent Evangelical Right Wing tattooed wonders of the world (help), they have religious tracts, and the TV is always on Fox News. DOUBLE HELP.

Anyone else have a Kindle?

xx, Teal