andrewpreston
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I'm in morning. My Kindle died last week so I'm reading on my Kindle app for the Nexus. As others have mentioned, glasses not needed &loads of books on the move but keeping it charged is a bummer.
Kindle, other ebook or the real thing?
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Same here, I prefer the real thing. Mrs P on the other hand loves her Kindle.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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The air's got to be stored somewhere or I'd suffocate.
Walking into a bookshop, or logging in to Amazon or some such website. I know which is preferable.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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Amazon is far more dangerous. Have a minute to spare anywhere and you can download a free first chapter. I can't tell you how much money those free chapters have cost me over the years ...
You can read the first chapter for free in a book shop as well.
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
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You can, but rather less conveniently. With Amazon, you download a bunch of them and then start reading one on a train, and five minutes into the train journey you've bought the book ...You can read the first chapter for free in a book shop as well.
swee'pea99
Squire
Yeah but they dunnarf get snotty about a few chocolate fingerprints you can hardly see, and as for the fuss they make when you fold a corner over so you can pick up where you left off in the morning...You can read the first chapter for free in a book shop as well.
My aunt and uncle used to run a newsagents/bookshop and they had this man that came in every day and read a bit of a particular book. I forget what it was now but it was a large novel, about three inches thick. This carried on for some time, he had taken to using an unused cigarette paper as a bookmark. They waited until he he had reached the last chapter and removed the book from the shelf and put it in the storeroom before opening up in the morning.
The man came in as usual at around 10 o' clock and spent all morning looking everywhere in the shop for "his" book.
Vidor06
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I have a Kindle (great for taking to work), Kindle Fire (for reading in bed) and both kids have Nooks (for library access) and love reading on all of those. But every few books I put the Kindle down, go into a bookshop and buy a paperback. Ive just ripped through about 3 or 4 books on the Kindle and have 4-5 more lined up to read, but once I finish my current book I will start a hardback about the British Lions I was bought for Christmas.
Yellow Fang
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I have not got an e-reader because I am concerned that in a few years the technology may become obsolete, or it will fail and I will lose all my books. My brother got my an iPod for my 40th birthday, and now it is pretty useless. It tied me to pretty much to Apple or MS Windows, and the songs I bought off iTunes were all encripted with their proprietary software. That hacked me off. I'd rather read paperbacks and take them to the Oxfam shop when my shelves get too full. I like walking around bookshops. I am concerned e-books might do for books what iTunes, YouTube and file sharing sites did to music. I am being hypocritical here as I like watching videos on YouTube. OTOH, I am considering getting a e-reader for magazines, to avoid being stuck with a huge pile of back-issues that I don't want to get rid of. That would probably mean getting an e-reader with a colour screen, but one of the advantages of an e-reader over a tablet is the screen is gentler on the eyes. Can you get Kindle type readers in colour?
CopperBrompton
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Calibre will take care of any ebook format conversions needed.
And no, iTunes tracks aren't in a proprietary format, they are simple AAC files.
Ben
And no, iTunes tracks aren't in a proprietary format, they are simple AAC files.
Ben
ColinJ
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I like real books but I also read ebooks via Kindle apps. I am currently reading a fairly obscure book about vitamins which I got for £3.99 for Kindle, which is only available in paper form for silly money on Amazon UK (£60+!). It would be about $12 in the USA but it is out of stock there.
Yellow Fang
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In April 2003, Apple brought mainstream attention to AAC by announcing that its iTunes and iPod products would support songs in MPEG-4 AAC format (via a firmware update for older iPods). Customers could download music in a closed-source Digital Rights Management (DRM)-restricted form of AAC (see FairPlay) via the iTunes Store or create files without DRM from their own CDs using iTunes. In later years, Apple began offering music videos and movies, which also use AAC for audio encoding.
On May 29, 2007, Apple began selling songs and music videos free of DRM from participating record labels. These files mostly adhere to the AAC standard and are playable on many non-Apple products but they do include custom iTunes information such as album artwork and a purchase receipt, so as to identify the customer in case the file is leaked out onto peer-to-peer networks. It is possible, however, to remove these custom tags to restore interoperability with players that conform strictly to the AAC specification.[citation needed] As of January 6, 2009, nearly all music on the USA regioned iTunes Store became DRM-free, with the remainder becoming DRM-free by the end of March 2009.[42]
