Prior to this last time in 2005 of giving TV up, I had given TV and video entertainment up a couple of times. I mostly only read for entertainment, so no serious stuff, just sci-fi, fantasy, some horror and a lot of dystopian books. I was a pretty fast reader a 300 page book was only about 9 or 10 hours of entertainment. But the well written ones were great and fast reads. Books use to only cost $1.99 for a cheap trade paper back, but then the prices started to explode.

The kindle is not to bad, but they have a phone and computer option now so you don't really need a kindle to read the books, just down load the apps, and start loading up on free or cheap books.