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E-Readers -- Who has one?

Posted: Mar 18, 2012

The thread on books reminded my how much I appreciate being able to search the entire Amazon website and order e-books right from my Kindle and have them delivered by 3G wireless in just a few seconds. With the enormous amount of public domain books and even the free contemporary books listed on Amazon, I am able to read more and better books for less cost. I can even read and post to MTStars from it, obtain a Sunday paper from Paris or New York, and check my email without getting out of bed.

Do you have an e-reader and how has it changed your life?

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I love my Kindle e-reader too. The best thing is...sm - oldtimer

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you can read in bright sunlight. I download free books all the time, as well as games and other apps.

Love my Kindle too! - Ayn

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I too love the convenience of not having to leave home to buy a book and that any book I want is just seconds away. I also love the free books, have been reading up on free "classics" since summer. Generally, it seems new releases are a little less expensive, and everything else seems less or equal in price - but no need to pay shipping or go to a bookstore. I still love browsing bookstores, but usually just write down what I want and then go home and order it online -- sorry bookstore employees! I still haunt HalfPrice Books though and will buy there. BUT, I love how I now have less books piling up around my house -- everything is stored on my Kindle, I can reread whatever I want, I can save ALL my books if I want, and it takes up so little space now. (Down side - I can't resell anything to HalfPrice Books or donate my used books anymore.)

I have not done so yet, but an looking forward to being able to "share" books with some friends soon, which will be nice and inexpensive. We just haven't done it yet as we have both been reading other things.

Also, I just learned that my public library will be initiating an "e-book program" this spring, so I am anxious so see what that will be. May give me access to even more free/inexpensive books! Yeah!!!

I have the "old" Kindle - not the Fire and no touch screen and don't care to have one. For me, I don't see a need to get on the internet on a small little screen when I have my computer right here at my desk, and I just don't like using touch screens for any kind of devices. I think the Fire would be great for anyone who travels though or is out and about and needs mobile computer access.

Happy Reading!!

Lowt without it - shipwrecked

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I accidentally kneeled on my Kindle and killed it. It was a long few days before the new one arrived. Then the new one kept slipping out of the lighted cover, so I called Amazon and they sent me a new one free.

I mostly download books from my local libary. The cost of buying them from Amazon is outrageous.

Get heckled about my Kindle but love it - Friend is an author

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I also have the "old school" Kindle and take it with me almost everywhere. Perhaps the best Christmas present my brother has gotten me in his 19 yrs as an adult (I'll not mention the snarky box he sent me for my 40th birthday). I need to take the time to find the e-loan books from local libraries, though. You all rock!

Heckling and e-loans - LuvMyKindle

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I don't understand why you ae being heckled. Authors do well with Kindle. Indie authors are doing so well that I am thinking of doing a bit of writing myself. It is very easy to publish now.

The waits for e-loans at my library were ridiculous. Tsk.

You can search for freebies on Amazon. Both Michael Gallagher and Stephen Windwalker have websites (free) and Kindle blogs (a nominal .99, which is the minimum Amazon requires). MG lists shortcut links to various categoies of free books. Some books are not stellar, but some are great. You can often get the first in a series free, or new releases for a few days to weeks.

One of the reasons I decided to go with an ereader was indie authors. - Stuck in a Rut!

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A guy I went to high school with many moons ago, wrote a book about growing up in our little hometown and feeling like he was born into the wrong family. It's called Raised by White Trash and it was only available electronically.

So after thinking about buying an ereader for months, I bit the bullet and bought one of the cheaper ones to start with - a Pandigital. I'm pretty traditional and love the feel of curling up with a book and turning the pages, etc. I am now obsessed with my e-reader and I'm asking for a Kindle or Nook for mother's day/birthday (they both fall in the same week for me yay!). The Pandigital is great and all, but it's one of the early version and it weighs a ton! I put that thing in my purse and I feel like I'm carrying around a brick!

From what I can tell, it seems everyone prefers the Kindle to the Nook, is this true?

I believe there are more free books with Kindle. - Maggie May

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And I'm not talking about just classics. Check Google. I get both emails and Facebook messages daily about free books. I have more books than I will live long enough to read!

I have the Kindle touch, and I love it. (No buttons like the regular cheaper Kindle!)

Kindle is generally better overall - see msg

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Kindles usually win out over Nooks. They disappear while you are reading, i.e., they are unobtrusive so you forget they are there.

There are far more books available for Kindles. Shop Amazon directly from the Kindle either in the Kindle store or the regular website. Wireless 3G e-book, newspaper, magazine delivery. It flies through the air in second. You do not need to go to Barnes and Noble or their website via a computer.

The technolgy has been considered superior. Amazon Kindle services are superb. Your Kindle has its own website where your books are archived. It has its own email address where you can send unpublished docments to your Kindle. You never lose anything because that serves as a backup.

E-ink nonglare screen. Great battery life. Very difficult to kill. Will read to you. Will play audiobooks. Wll play music. Works via wifi, not just with a cable. Can download books as often as you like. Can take notes. It remembers where you left off even if you are reading the same book on several kindles.

Lots of reasons. A friend had a Pandigital before her Kindle. She was shocked by how clunky it was. Kindles are light and nifty.

My friends who got Nooks tend to regret it. "I finished my book but haven't been able to go to the bookstore to buy something else." "I never used it. I couldn't get to the user class." "It is inconvenient/fragile/low battery so I leave it at home."

I have never heard a Nook owner say they liked their Nook. "I guess it's ok. I still prefer paper books." That is as good as it seems to get.

Kindle owners go nuts telling you about them. "I looove my Kindle." "I will never go back to paper! This is so much better." "I read so much more now." "I can read anywhere. I love the games. I love Scrabble on my Kindle Keyboard." I cannot remember life before Kindle. It goes on and on.

Having a Kindle means never having to be embarrassed that your reader rhymes with "ook." (Eww! Ook!)

Still not sure? Buy a Kindle directly from Amazon. It will arrive already set up for you and knowing who you are. You can have free reading material downloaded within minutes. If you are not absolutely in love with it, it has a 30-day, money-back guarantee. For any reason or even none at all.

If you need to read in dim light or the dark, get the Amazon cover that has the integral light that operates off the Kindle battery. It is quite nice.

Oh, I should also mention that you can access the internet quite well with the Kindle Keyboard and Touch. I am using a Keyboard right now.

Love my Kindle!! - jojo

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It has changed my life by the fact that I read more because I just always take it with me and so I always have something available to read, plus it is cheaper than going to the bookstore to buy books.

Love my KINDLE - Angie

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I got the Kindle year before last for Christmas w a $50 amazon card to get me started. I LOVE IT! I can put it in my purse, read wen at the gym, outside...anywhere and it is light. We got my cousin the Kindle FIRE and she loves it...but it is waaay heavy. I think it is nice, but I have a touchscreen phone for internet, FB, etc...when I want to read, I want light-Kindle.

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