UK Kindle and E-Books...
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Soldato
So the UK Kindle has been announced and available this month finally.
I will not be getting one as I have the Sony 600 with the touch screen.
I read all my books electronically now and will never look back. Anyone else into ebooks now? Looking like its gonna be the big xmas item.
If anyone thinks its just like reading on the latop think again. The screens have no refresh rate or backlight which means zero headaches and eye strain. Battery need charging once every couple of weeks as well
I took mine on holiday and read Anthony Beevors Stalingrad at 500 pages and it didnt drop one bar of battery. Just reading the lost symbol now.
Let the Ebook revolution begin.
I've been reading e-books since 2000
My first e-book was
http://secure.ereader.com/ebooks/b1753/First-King-of-Shannara-/Terry-Brooks/?si=59
Which I bought on 13th October 2000, ereader.com was at the time called peanutpress.com
It's not really a new idea.
I started reading e-books so I could continue to read in bed even when the wife put the lights out to sleep
I used my Palm E now use my ipodtouch.
Soldato
Caporegime
I like buying books, especially hardbacks.........
I already bought 2 this month.
I already bought 2 this month.
Associate
I used to read lots of e-books but recently places like Fictionwise and eReader have had to restict purchases depending on your geographic location. Wanted to buy the new Dan Brown book, $5 on eReader but not permitted to buy it (it's gone up now but Fictionwise have it for $17 with 100% rebate). There was one UK site selling it, for £15! It costs less to buy it on paper at the supermarket. I see it's on the iPhone AppStore now, £14.95 total rip off.
Commissario
I like physical books, but I've long since run out of room for buying as many as i'd like 
(these days I tend to only buy the new books from favourite authors - Iain M Banks, Peter Hamilton, Terry Pratchett etc)
The reader has proven very handy in terms of space saved, and it's let me try loads of books by new authors cheap (and some old ones) - I worked out so far this year i've read about 53 books on it
(these days I tend to only buy the new books from favourite authors - Iain M Banks, Peter Hamilton, Terry Pratchett etc)The reader has proven very handy in terms of space saved, and it's let me try loads of books by new authors cheap (and some old ones) - I worked out so far this year i've read about 53 books on it
Soldato
I like physical books, but I've long since run out of room for buying as many as i'd like
I have this problem too!
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I fancy getting one for my mother. She goes through about 3 or 4 books a fortnight and has expressed interest in the Kindle.
Will hold out until it ships from the UK and more information is released. E.g. which carrier it will use.
Will hold out until it ships from the UK and more information is released. E.g. which carrier it will use.
I like physical books, but I've long since run out of room for buying as many as i'd like
The reader has proven very handy in terms of space saved, and it's let me try loads of books by new authors cheap (and some old ones) - I worked out so far this year i've read about 53 books on it
cheap? how so?
Soldato
Just noticed this myself.
Was just about to buy the next versions of terry brooks series for my touch only to find I can't buy it.
I've mailed ereader and asked them to improve their advanced search so that I can search their site for books which I'm allowed to buy.
I didn't know apple did books on their site? Probably don't in Belgium (Belgian site really sucks I asked them why they don't have movies or tv programmes to sell yet and got the reply that I'm not allowed to buy from other apple sites.)
Caporegime
Can you buy ebooks second hand on ebay? Can you sell them second hand on ebay? Can you buy them in second hand book shops?
Sorry, not interested.
Sorry, not interested.
People said the same about mp3's yet most people have now made the switch and it's still a new industry. Give it another 5-10 years and cd buyers will be the same as record buyers.
Same is happening with pc games and books although it will take a lot longer will go that way as well.
Soldato
I don't mind not being able to resell or buy second hand as long as the electronic versions are reasonibly priced and can be re-downloaded if needed.
I have to say, I do not understand the idea of ebook readers. You pay £150+, which could have been used to buy A LOT of books, to then be able to pay more for a (DRM laced) digital copy of a book than the paperback copy costs. This, to me, seems like madness..
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Same here - a great idea but having experienced SonicStage, I would never again touch anything from Sony because of their obsession with DRM & ignoring standards
They're using an open standard (epub) and I use Adobe Digital Editions to manage my library and transfer books. Sony is made up of lots of different groups internally, they aren't all the same.Same here - a great idea but having experienced SonicStage, I would never again touch anything from Sony because of their obsession with DRM & ignoring standards
Soldato
Has there been any discussion about ebook rentals that any of you have seen? I am thinking of something along the lines of Netflix, LoveFilm, Blockbuster et al, but for books instead of movies. Given that Amazon have the ability to remotely delete books from your Kindle, it would be fairly trivial for them to have the rental expire in the same way a DVD rental would. Paying £10+ for a digital copy of a book is absurd, but paying £20 a month to rent 5 or 10 books at a time would be well worth paying for, in my view.
to be fair, 150 quid will get you 10 or so hardbacks or 15-20 softback.
wait, that IS a lot of books!