E-readers who has one?

Got one after trying my partner's Kindle. Excellent devices as I really am not keen on the feel of paper and you can read it one handed, with something else in your other hand. Pop it into a sandwich bag and you can read it in the bath.

Flippin' fantastic.
 
I started off much like you. I thought books should be books. They should SMELL like books. In fact I still think that. But I can't deny the convenience of an Ereader...

I bought an iPad 2 a few months ago now, and didn't use it much for reading. But then I bought the Steve Jobs Biography, and after reading the introduction, it said that it was a true testimony to what he'd done that a number of people would probably be reading the biography on a device he created. Now considering the book was 600+ pages long, and hardback, I thought sod it, and bought it on iBooks as well. I've never looked back for when reading large books. It's so much more convenient, and that's with an iPad. I recently got my gf a Kindle, and she's been reading all the classics, and the sheer convenience of it is fantastic. Admittedly the lack of backlight on the Kindle is annoying because of the e-ink, but it's still clearly been very useful.

If you want to read classics, a Kindle will probably pay for itself. Most of them are free, so you don't have to pay anything, where as in paperback form you still have to buy them...

But yeah, it's also hugely convenient for reading a large number of books. Game of thrones books? All on a ereader. It is hugely convenient, and if you read a lot it's certainly well worth it. Especially as often the ebook is cheaper than the paperback...

kd
 
King, you've just described one of the big reasons I love my reader:)

A lot of the books I like tend to be fairly hefty in page counts, and the ereader is more comfortable to hold*.
I also worked out before I splashed the £200 on it, that if I bought X number of books from Baen (cheap, many in bundles) as I had just got into Honor Harrington, that it would largely pay for itself in short order compared with the paper versions:)


*We got my mum a kindle for Christmas, and she has trouble with heavy books, so it's a godsend.
 
I'm puzzled by people liking a LCD to read over an epaper screen. KD even seemed to suggest that epaper is a poor substitute for a backlit LCD. I love my Reader, and I've been using electronic ink screens since they were 3 times the price of an equivalent LCD.

On the electronic reader front it was pretty much accepted that epaper was the best electronic way, hands down. Then all of a sudden all these apple fans appeared with their ipads looking down their noses. I'm left with the conclusion that it's just the apple effect... if you're an apple fan then everything else is inferior.
 
I will buy an e-reader the day every hard copy of a book comes with a free electronic copy AND I can somehow put my current collection on to it without breaking the law. I currently own somewhere in the region of 200 books, the idea of moving to an e-reader and not being able to read those with it seems absurd.

Saying that I do like them, I've used my mothers a few times to read some of the free ones but I just like owning books too much.
 
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mr_stat said:
Be quiet I have a kindle, a more expensive 3G version next to me right now and it's screen is cracked. I did NOTHING to crack it, I paid for lots of books I like to read, I did nothing wrong and the device is broke. Please don't tell me to "move on", I am sharing genuine experiences. So Sir maybe you should "Move on".
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Did you call Amazon about it? They're usually pretty keen to replace broken devices even when it's physical damage. That way they keep the customer buying books from Amazon rather than a competitor.

I have both a Kindle 3 and Asus Transformer. The former is great for novels and the later rocks for text books and manuals.

Love them both.
 
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To those who have had their Kindle screens break, was the break in the screen preceeded by a tiny hairline crack in the actual gray case of the Kindle, coming from the bottom right corner of the screen? Mine has this, the crack is about 10mm long, you can feel it and just about see it. At the moment it's not doing any harm and doesn't really cause a problem so I wasn't going to bother sending it back, but was wondering if this was a precursor to an inevitable full screen break?
 
I think I'd probably read more if I had a Kindle - I do love reading and haven't been reading as much as I normally do :( I think if i didn't drive everywhere or commute so much I would have invested in one for the train commute.
 
I'd say the iPad is in some ways better than a Kindle as an ereader.

Even as just an ereader, never mind all the other features...

Admittedly it is larger and more cumbersome, but, I have both iBooks and Kindle Apps installed on mine, and tend to find that iBooks is definitely the more dynamic software.

Amazon do have a wider range of ebooks though, and some are exclusive, hence why I have the kindle app. But if I could choose one, I'd choose to read on iBooks over the Kindle app every time.

kd
 
stockhausen said:
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The Kindle has the whole "it's integrated with Amazon" thing going for it, but the downsides (I've actually got access to a Kindle keyboard, kindle 4, and 505 here).

They feel cheap (maybe that's just me, I don't like the plastic feel of it).
The buttons are poorly placed/poor for older users - my mum struggles with the stupid little direction pad on the Kindle 4, and the "ok" button that is in the middle of it (I struggle with it, I can't use it with my thumb which is what you naturally tend to to when you're holding the the kindle like a book due to it's position).
They can't seem to do simple things like a proper author or collection sort - My 3.5 year old 505 handles collections better than a new Kindle, it doesn't move the books around in the collection for example (my mother's Kindle seems to move the book that is currently being read to the top of the collection list, which makes it a little harder to work out what the next book in the series is).

I like the Kindle generally, but there as several very simple and stupid design choices that drive me nuts every time I have to use one - the collections issue for example shouldn't be an issue at all, it's a simple software fix (if they wanted they could offer you the choice of how it behaves), and the direction/ok button is something that I'm amazed wasn't spotted in the prototype stage.

The 505 despite being a much older model just seems to beat the Kindle for UI when it comes to the "library" side of the units, and the navigation controls are better.
 
Just started using the Kindle I got for Christmas and really like it, been working my way through normal books until now but I have to say I wouldn't go back. I would make improvements to it, the interface is clunky and no keyboard on the new kindle either :(

but it is much better than a normal book!
 
I got a Kindle last week, and I am in love with it. I love having a big book shelf, overflowing with books, all of them with post it notes, highlighted parts, notes all over them, etc. But there's something about the beautiful ease of using my Kindle that has just won me over... You decide that there's a book you want to read, thirty seconds later, you are reading it.

Technology keeps on blowing my mind to smithereens.

And yes, I would recommend one. :p
 
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