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I have a kindle! I love it!
I have 37 books on mine, but some are trilogies or like my Charles Dickens and Shakespear they are collections (Dickens is 51 books/stories).
Kindle was all I knew of when I purchased mine, saw it on Amazon (one of my favorite places). It is very easy to use and great for taking away on weekend trips 
I noticed the other day you now can play games on kindle. By oneself or with another kindle user. Will be checking into that. Scrabble would be entertaining (one of the 3 I saw.. cant remember the others).
Do you electronically read and what reader do you use, why, why not?
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I have both a nook, and an iPad.
I bought the nook about a month ago and I love that little device. Perfect size and weight, I would have liked a bigger screen but aside from that it was perfect for me. The B&N store tended to have more of the things I wanted so that was a major factor, plus buying it at my job made it easier. However, now we sell the Kindle too.
About two weeks ago I purchased an iPad, mainly for school and such. It works great as a reader as well, but I mainly use it for web, email, and then document editing and such. I have all of my school documents kept in my 'cloud' so I can access them from the iPad easily.
I prefer reading on my nook's e-ink screen, however because of what the iPad can also do I tend to have it with me and not the nook.
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How do you get books on the nook? Kindle you go through amazon and whispernet.
I find the ipad interesting might be my next purchase.
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The nook is made by Barnes and Noble, so your books come from bn.com.
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I think the three worthwhile E-reader options are the Nook, the Kindle and the Sony Daily Edition.
Personally I chose the Nook because it supports more open formats and I like the look a lot more than the Kindle. I really don't like the giant, pointless keyboard on the Kindle and I think the Kindle 3 basically just tried to copy the better ideas that B&N and Sony already used.
The Sony Daily Edition is perhaps a more technically advanced piece of hardware with some really cool features but the Nook does everything I want and it has both the B&N library and the Google book project behind it.
I would never read books on a tablet PC, I want the e-ink screen.
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Yossarian_42 posted:
I would never read books on a tablet PC, I want the e-ink screen.
I said this same thing until I actually bought the iPad. And I didn't buy the iPad thinking I would use it as an eReader it, I was getting it for the other features it offered and using it for school. However, reading on the LED-lit screen isn't as bad as I thought it would be over long periods of time. Maybe it would be if you used the white background at full brightness all the time which I'm sure some people do, but not me personally. Overall it's not bad at all for an eReading.
I do still prefer my nook's eInk screen, just looks much better. But, as I said in a previous post because of what else the iPad is capable of I tend to have it handy more often and read on it more for that reason.
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I have a kindle app on my phone. Absolutely love it, but need more content on it!
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I read my ebooks on my iphone  I know, totally small screen! But I'm short sighted so it's a great size for reading without my glasses and not holding a book to my face
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Calidoc posted:
Yossarian_42 posted:
I would never read books on a tablet PC, I want the e-ink screen.
I said this same thing until I actually bought the iPad. And I didn't buy the iPad thinking I would use it as an eReader it, I was getting it for the other features it offered and using it for school. However, reading on the LED-lit screen isn't as bad as I thought it would be over long periods of time. Maybe it would be if you used the white background at full brightness all the time which I'm sure some people do, but not me personally. Overall it's not bad at all for an eReading.
I do still prefer my nook's eInk screen, just looks much better. But, as I said in a previous post because of what else the iPad is capable of I tend to have it handy more often and read on it more for that reason.
Yeah, used an iPad, and no thanks, won't be reading on it. Of course, the iPad screen isn't as good as other PC's out there, but then again the iPad also can't do half what they can do either. Still, even with the other options I would take the e-ink easily, it's simply made for reading and does it far better than any LCD display could hope.
Plus prolonged reading on those LCD screens is proven to be bad for your eyes and cause gradual degradation. The colors, even white or black, are made from small pixels of red, green or blue. Unfortunately when you focus your eye still tries to focus on the pixel edges and this causes a great deal of strain. The more attentively you stare, as in reading, the worse the effect. There's a reason e-ink is recommended and used in readers.
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Keonyn posted:
Calidoc posted:
Yossarian_42 posted:
I would never read books on a tablet PC, I want the e-ink screen.
I said this same thing until I actually bought the iPad. And I didn't buy the iPad thinking I would use it as an eReader it, I was getting it for the other features it offered and using it for school. However, reading on the LED-lit screen isn't as bad as I thought it would be over long periods of time. Maybe it would be if you used the white background at full brightness all the time which I'm sure some people do, but not me personally. Overall it's not bad at all for an eReading.
I do still prefer my nook's eInk screen, just looks much better. But, as I said in a previous post because of what else the iPad is capable of I tend to have it handy more often and read on it more for that reason.
Yeah, used an iPad, and no thanks, won't be reading on it. Of course, the iPad screen isn't as good as other PC's out there, but then again the iPad also can't do half what they can do either. Still, even with the other options I would take the e-ink easily, it's simply made for reading and does it far better than any LCD display could hope.
Plus prolonged reading on those LCD screens is proven to be bad for your eyes and cause gradual degradation. The colors, even white or black, are made from small pixels of red, green or blue. Unfortunately when you focus your eye still tries to focus on the pixel edges and this causes a great deal of strain. The more attentively you stare, as in reading, the worse the effect. There's a reason e-ink is recommended and used in readers.
If you read my post you'll notice that I never said I preferred the iPad screen over the eInk screen, actually I specifically stated that I preferred reading from my nook. However, as most of my reading is done away from home if becomes a question of just reading, or reading, Internet, email, web, word processing, spreadsheets, and powerpoints all in one. I'll take with me the one which offers the most utility to me, regardless of any 'damage' my eyes may or may not take.
Yes, the iPad is not a laptop and it was never designed to be. It's a stepping stone between smartphones and laptops. However it still offers document/spreadsheet/presentation editing in a more convenient package. Is the iPad right for everyone? No, not at all but if it fits what you use and/or need from a computer then it is a better fit in a smaller package. My mother had an iPad for almost 6 months before I finally got mine because I didn't think it was worth the money until I actually used it overtime and fully learned what it was capable of from personal experience, as well as the knowledge gaining from Apple Sales Training from my job.
<edit> I'm not trying to push the iPad on everyone, I just dislike it when people immediatly dismiss it because it doesn't have an eInk screen. It wasn't made to be an eReader, but it offered the option as another feature. Like I said it's not for everyone, and I still love the nook, but it does offer something else in addition to books which is a big plus for some people such as myself.
In that regard if people roaming the board are looking for advice on which eReader to get, like I was about 2 months ago, I still personally recommend the nook. Unless, and only unless, you can benefit from other features of a tablet.
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What is the difference between eInk and eReader?
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Nyxxie posted:
What is the difference between eInk and eReader?
e-Ink is the paper-like screen on true eReaders. i.e. Kindle, Nook, Sony Daily Edition etc. Their screen is called electronic ink, and looks almost exactly like printed paper.
iPad's and other tablets I wouldn't really call eReaders, personally, as they are simply downloading an application in order to do it just as your computer or cell phone can.
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i immediately dismiss the ipad because it's from apple.
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Ive been having problems deciding between the ipad and kindle lately. I played with the nook for a bit and thought I would like it over the kindle but after seeing the kindle, I like it a lot more. I too didnt like the keyboard at first but found it to be better than the nook and its doenst get in the way as much as I thought it would. I didnt like the rectangle area on the nook. Bothered me.
Ive decided on either the kindle or ipad now. I am a fairly heavy reader, but also am a college student. I am having a hard time deciding which I want more. Ipad would be nice as I can read on it, email, take notes, and browse the web plus more I dont even know about. It is a lcd screen though and have heard complaints about reading outside and in certain lightning situations. Plus its a lot spendier. Kindle on the other hand I like the size, the price and its just for reading. eInk on it is nice as I noticed no glare. Such hard decisions 
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Not interested in having an electronic reader. I get tired of staring at a computer screen all day at work as it is, definitely don't want my recreational reading to be in the same format.
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That's the whole point of eInk. An eInk screen is not the same as an LCD screen and is made for reading.
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stralicake posted:
Not interested in having an electronic reader. I get tired of staring at a computer screen all day at work as it is, definitely don't want my recreational reading to be in the same format.
You obviously haven't looked into e-readers at all.
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beibhinn posted:
I read my ebooks on my iphone I know, totally small screen! But I'm short sighted so it's a great size for reading without my glasses and not holding a book to my face
stralicake posted:
Not interested in having an electronic reader. I get tired of staring at a computer screen all day at work as it is, definitely don't want my recreational reading to be in the same format.
This is gonna look weird, but I swear I was not stalking either of you, just looking at boards.
Anyways hi beib and strali lol
I have a sony e-reader, I LOVE it, my favorite thing I own. I have 200-300 books on it and I can read for 8 hours and not hurt my eyes because it's not back lit at all. It's my baby, I got rid of 5 boxes of books and replaced it with this guy. It was weird at 1st, but now I couldn't imagine holding the pages or cover of a real book. My version is super basic though and I wish my reader came with a dictionary and lookup/find option. I've had it since last christmas btw so definitely put it to the test - read 30 books on it so far at a guess
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Nardraug_Mid_Lance posted:
This is gonna look weird, but I swear I was not stalking either of you, just looking at boards.
Anyways hi beib and strali lol
Well, I was.
Ok, not really. Nardraug mentioned spotting stralicake on another board, so I took a peek - lo and behold, a very relevant topic.
I just picked my wife up a Nook a few days ago, early Christmas present. She loves it. Personally, I don't mind reading off of a bright LCD screen, so I just use my phone.
Gonna pick up an HTC Evo this spring, probably use that since it supports all the major ereaders' apps anyway.
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lol, you would~
How long can you read a book off an LCD screen, it kills me having to read articles on my PC lol
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Much  for my Kindle
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