I-pad ,....never had one, Sooo....

Faustus said:
I found reading as a child one of the greatest pleasures in life and still do. I used to spend hours at night torch in hand with my head under the covers eagerly trying to finish whichever book I happened to be reading before my parents discovered what I was doing. I didn't need to be enthused as my parents taught me the joy of reading well before I went to primary school. That love affair with books has stopped with me throughout my life. My wife asked me only the other day if I wanted a Kindle as a birthday present. I have declined the offer as I don't think there's any substitute for having a physical book in ones hand. That is why I don't think an iPad is a good idea for such a young person as I doubt they will ever get that intense pleasure of reading from a device such as a tablet.
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In your opinion. I remember as a boy I'd go to the library and take out 4 books at a time. In my family I took everyone's library cards and take out books on their names too (it was more innocent times). Sometimes totally 8-10 books. I've been a vivacious reader for 25 years now.

I dropped physical books like a bad habit the moment I turned on my first Kindle. More than a year of using it now, my love affair with it only intensifies.

Responsible parents and their children still spend time together. It's just the tools that's now different.
 
shine said:
I love reading books but as I cannot afford to build a Noah's ark for books the Kindle is fantastic way to allow me to keep my reading habit and still have some living space. There are two sides to everything.
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Same. I wish I had pictures of my previous book collection. I'm not jesting or lying when I say that I took suitcases full of books to charity shops. I had them laying about everywhere. Now they're all stored in a tiny little book reader.
 
regulus said:
Same. I wish I had pictures of my previous book collection. I'm not jesting or lying when I say that I took suitcases full of books to charity shops. I had them laying about everywhere. Now they're all stored in a tiny little book reader.
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I was the same - I have books in the loft at my place, parents, sisters etc. and my bookshelf are still full. However, sine the Kindle came out I only buy books as a last resort.
 
my only imput would be i was unsure about 3g version but so glad i did not waste my money on it as using my galaxy nexus as a hotspot has been so easy. Does help that im on three so there is no problem with tethering like other networks plus for all the three haters out there a lot better coverage then when i was on o2
 
shine said:
I was the same - I have books in the loft at my place, parents, sisters etc. and my bookshelf are still full. However, sine the Kindle came out I only buy books as a last resort.
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Tell me how you get on with that using large reference books with pictures and diagrams. Even Steve Jobs admitted to having a love of the physical book.
 
Faustus said:
Tell me how you get on with that using large reference books with pictures and diagrams.
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Why would you use a Kindle for that?! It's plainly obvious that this isn't the target market for a Kindle. The Kindle's for reading books with text, mostly fiction. This exception doesn't defeat the utility of the Kindle at all.
 
Faustus said:
Tell me how you get on with that using large reference books with pictures and diagrams. Even Steve Jobs admitted to having a love of the physical book.
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Some books read better on ereaders, others read better on books. I can't read essays on my iPad, although with some of the newer iBooks 2 features I'm tempted to try.

Ironically the Steve Jobs biography I own as a book. Never read it in the book, downloaded the iBooks version and read it on my iPad. Was the first iBook book I read. Have read plenty since, but generally prefer to read fiction on my iPad.

kd
 
Faustus said:
Tell me how you get on with that using large reference books with pictures and diagrams. Even Steve Jobs admitted to having a love of the physical book.
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I never said I stopped buying books, just that I prefer to buy them on my Kindle first if I can. I don't care what Steve Jobs or anyone else feels about books I was highlighting how I like the Kindle allows me to purchase and read books without taking up the limited space I have in my flat.
 
a thing to bear in mind is that if your kids love playing the plethora of FLASH games on the cbeebies/citv/nickelodeon websites as mine do, then the ipad won't be able todo that. However, if your happy to browse the app store I'm sure you will find alternatives to all the games available for the kids to play on those websites even if it means paying for them :)
 
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