Kindle, other ebook or the real thing?

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Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
Both, without any question. I love paper books, I love ebooks. It's fantastic being able to carry hundreds of books with me when I travel, but a home isn't a home without paper books.

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(Mostly with two rows of books per slot)

This is the smallest bookcase in my house:

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marknotgeorge

Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
Location
Derby.
A Sony PRS-T1 for me. My mum was a bit of a luddite when it came to eReaders, but eventually, both she and my dad bought one. And when my mum broke the screen on hers, she bought another Sony. Coupled with Caliber, I can get books from anywhere. I prefer my Google Nexus for reading PDFs, though.
 
I atarted off with one of the early Sony ones, and have progressed. I have several and use them as follows:

Reading in bed at night, where I am liable to drop it or simply as a "just in case" stuck i my pocket - Kindle Paperwhite
Where I am a way for the day and may want to read, but aslo look atthe occasionl internet or such - Kindle Fire HD
Where I am going to be doing work as well as reding then the IPad is the answer

I also look at using the cheaper KIndles where I know it is going to be a rough area, or an area such as public transport where theft may be an isue.


The one thing that was on the Sony Designs that I miss however is a wrist lanyard for those moments whn you drift off whilst reading
 

byegad

Legendary Member
Location
NE England
I used to pack five or six big paper backs for a week long holiday, I'm a very fast reader!* Then I bought a Sony reader when they first came out. That died last year and after a lot of shopping around I went for a fairly basic Kindle. I still own and buy the odd paper book but as my living room looks like a public library I mostly buy for the kindle. I also have my tablet, phone and laptop running kindle and so can start a book on one device, pick up from where I left of on any other device and finish the book on another.

I find the kindle (And Sony before that.) the easiest thing to use and now get somewhat frustrated when reading paper based books as in bed, where I do a lot of my reading, the constant adjustment to read one side then another of the book is more awkward than tapping a button for the next page. My holiday luggage is a lot lighter too!

*I taught myself to speed read in the 1960s for study purposes, being already a fast reader before that. While I don't speed read very often (It is hard work!) I do still read so fast that my wife can't keep up with me when reading text services on TV. She was typist so isn't exactly illiterate but has only got to the second line when I turn the page!
 
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I have to admit I am a Kindle convert (even an addict) and use it to read in bed and on public transport as well as general reading, though I still like paper. Cunobelin is it worth upgrading to the Kindle Paperwhite and can you use the IPad as an E notebook. I ask this because in April I am doing a course in Newcastle and will have a two hour + commute twice a day and I am thinking that an E notebook will be handy for note taking and repairing papers to transfer to my Table Top computer.
 

green1

Über Member
Books every time. I spent enough time in front of a screen without doing it when reading for pleasure, plus if I drop a book in the bath or it gets wet on the beach/pool and scratched its a few quid. Oh and the battery never runs out on a book.

Plus the spare room which is my library would look at bit crap if all it had on the shelves was an ereader.
 

lesley_x

Über Member
Location
Glasgow
Love my Kindle, it really encourages me to read more. Before I got one I read a couple of books a year due to the inconvenience of lugging a book around. Now I keep my super light Kindle in my bag, I have a choice of many, many books and I can read whenever I've got spare time. Really love it. At last count I had read 48 books in it's first year. There is no way I could have achieved that using paper books, and my vocabulary has increased dramatically.

Also books are pretty cheap and there's a good amount of free books out there too, if you know where to look.
 
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