just treated myself to the new amazon kindle!
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They've been much more organised with presentation of where the free books are, even having a top 100 free books list and plenty of links. I think it'll certainly pay dividends for their efforts.
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
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- Leith, Edinburgh
Must admit (as a gadget lover and a great reader who keeps running out of space for them at home) to being tempted by the new Kindle. However, unless I get some unexpected money I'll just wait until the eReader market matures and they get cheaper and cheaper.
As someone else said, in a few hundred years time you can still take a book from a shelf, open it and start reading. Will the current eBook formats out there still be supported and readable then though? Or will it be like everything else - you'll need to keep buying the books over and over again on newer and newer formats as the old ones are no longer supported?
As someone else said, in a few hundred years time you can still take a book from a shelf, open it and start reading. Will the current eBook formats out there still be supported and readable then though? Or will it be like everything else - you'll need to keep buying the books over and over again on newer and newer formats as the old ones are no longer supported?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
There's a book shop (forget the name) in St Michael's Steet, Oxford - it's about opposite the Three Goats Heads pub
and they have a shelf of free books on the street. Mind you lots of them are rubbish and it's not very free unless you happen to be in Oxford.The pub's great though.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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- London
I'd recommend going for the 3G one over the wifi-only. A huge benefit of the Kindle to me is that I can be anywhere in the world and browse for new books on the amazon site totally free of charge without needing to find a free wifi hotspot.
I like paper books too:
But wouldn't be without my Kindle. :-)
I like paper books too:
But wouldn't be without my Kindle. :-)
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
Bottle of red please
I'd recommend going for the 3G one over the wifi-only. A huge benefit of the Kindle to me is that I can be anywhere in the world and browse for new books on the amazon site totally free of charge without needing to find a free wifi hotspot.
I like paper books too:
But wouldn't be without my Kindle. :-)
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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- London
You can read those on a Kindle too - either in native mobipocket format (not all books) or using an HTML-to-mobi converter (free).
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
Doesn't matter: all the free books you can download again, and all the ones bought from amazon are automatically backed-up for you for free download on the repaired or replaced Kindle.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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- London
That was just temporary storage while I reorganised things - they are now with the other bottles on the main rack. :-)Bottle of red please
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
I do. I carry 80 books in my Sony Reader 505, it would hold more. So on holiday I can now lift my case.
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
I got one for my wife for Christmas last year, she loves it, uses it lots and thinks it is great. If your wives are as pleased with them as mine is then you'll be happy men.
You may find however that she then spends as much time on kindle forums as you two do on cycling forums.
If you like reading get one. You will not be disappointed.
The reading experience is almost the same as paper - nothing like reading from a conventional screen -but better in so many ways. There are the obvious benefits of space saving and cost but it's the more subtle things that make the difference. For example you can read it including turning pages easily with one hand.You can select a word and the dictionary definition appears. The free books make it worth the money on its own. The complete works ofShakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Twain, Scott, Poe, Conan Doyle, Stevenson ... the list goes on. Just about every classic book written before 1900 for nothing.
Plus its alsp got a limited mp3 player and free 3g internet access which isn't great to use but has allowed me to type this and the articlemode makes it excellent for reading papers online for free anywhere.
I doubt I will ever buy a paper book again.
The reading experience is almost the same as paper - nothing like reading from a conventional screen -but better in so many ways. There are the obvious benefits of space saving and cost but it's the more subtle things that make the difference. For example you can read it including turning pages easily with one hand.You can select a word and the dictionary definition appears. The free books make it worth the money on its own. The complete works ofShakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Twain, Scott, Poe, Conan Doyle, Stevenson ... the list goes on. Just about every classic book written before 1900 for nothing.
Plus its alsp got a limited mp3 player and free 3g internet access which isn't great to use but has allowed me to type this and the articlemode makes it excellent for reading papers online for free anywhere.
I doubt I will ever buy a paper book again.
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
- Location
- Farnborough, Hampshire
The temptation is growing, stores up to 3500 books, I'm assuming that you can have more on your Amazon account and download a reading list like you would a playlist? But even at 3500 only, that 22 and a half years of reading at 3 books a week, even at a book a day it's still 10 years worth.
Can you share between Kindles in any way? for example if we had more than one in the house could they all be linked to the same Amazon account?
Can you share between Kindles in any way? for example if we had more than one in the house could they all be linked to the same Amazon account?
Black Sheep
Guru
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- Rammy
I can see the point for people who do a lot of traveling and or read large books (eg the hitchhikers trilogy in five parts)
However, as someone who is into design, publishing, typesetting and especially kerning, ligature etc nothing can compare to the look and feel of a book, the way the type has been laid onto the page, something I don't think you'll get on an e-reader.
However, as someone who is into design, publishing, typesetting and especially kerning, ligature etc nothing can compare to the look and feel of a book, the way the type has been laid onto the page, something I don't think you'll get on an e-reader.
