Yeah; I really like my kindle, but I got it with advertising, 'cause I'm cheap, and hell, even from a "how I'm seen" point of view, I don't want to be seen as

Yeah; I really like my kindle, but I got it with advertising, 'cause I'm cheap, and hell, even from a "how I'm seen" point of view, I don't want to be seen as the sort of person that would pay $40 extra to change what is on my kindle when it is turned off. But I'm pretty sure that amazon is targeting their ads... not to get me to actually click on them, but instead to embarrass me into paying the $40 (you can pay the money you saved buying the kindle with ads and turn off ads later.) I mean, my kindle is full of technical books, and has a bunch of project gutenburg history texts, too. A smattering of sci-fi. And I get ads for "Dove for men" - or "twilight" Yeah, only thing I can figure is that they think that I'll pay them because I'm afraid of that girl in the coffee shop thinking I'm some kind of fruit. Or, maybe it's just that technical books don't have marketing budget? who knows?