OT? e-readers Was: Re: SCD - Am I Imagining This?

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I have a Kindle and I'm pretty happy with it.  I also have the goal of getting rid of a lot of paper books because I live on a floating home and weight is weight :>)I was an Amazon junkie before the Kindle and it's pretty easy to download books or even previews of books over the wireless connection. You can also shut off the wireless for long battery life, as someone mentioned.

I've even taken it to the beach, and it works just great in bright sunlight. I wish it had a backlight for dim light, though.There are are a lot of free ebook sites available, too, but Amazon has a pretty good selection of the freebies of classic books and new authors breaking into print.

-- (the other one)

 

Since many of us are drooling over the prospect of getting e-readers, I just thought I'd throw out that ease of searching for books is something to check before you buy one. Dh got a Sony reader as a gift and it frustrates him to no end because you can only buy from the Sony site and their search is awful. (Dh is not usually into reading the current bestsellers. If those are what a person wants, it's ok. Sony makes those easy to find.)

, mom to

> >How is that for late night reading or getting

> >too hot to hold? I haven't had the desire to

> >read an entire book since I got sick in 2002 but

> >I used to pull almost all-nighters if the book

> >was really good ;-). I can't imagine cuddling

> >up with an electronic device but...I don't know.

> >

> >And if BTVC isn't on there, I bet a lot of old

> >cookbooks and classics aren't either.

>

> Debbie,

>

> I don't (yet) have a Kindle, but I got to play

> with a Kindle DX over the weekend. They've just

> dropped the price on the regular Kindle from $259

> to $179, and word in the gadget news is that

> because other devices have come out, the price of

> the Kindle could be down to $99 by the end of the year.

>

> It was very easy to read, since you can change

> the font size to one you like. The Kindle, so

> far, is, IMO, superior to the B & N Nook or the

> Sony Reader. It's quite light weight, and not

> warm to the touch at all. You can read for up to

> ten days on a single charge. <g>

>

> As for old cook books and classics -- hit Project

> Gutenberg or Google Books and start looking.

> Google Books is doing a great deal of their

> material in EPUB format, which is easily

> translated to AZW (Kindle) format by the Calibre

> program, which is shareware. Anything published

> before 1923 is in the public domain.

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

> No Human Children

> Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

> Babette the Foundling Beagle

>

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I haven't been to the Sony site, and don't use their software either. I

downloaded Calibre (it's compatible with most e-readers), and download books

from lots of different places. Then I just manually add them to the Sony reader.

It's a lot easier that way :-).

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

>

> Since many of us are drooling over the prospect of getting e-readers, I just

thought I'd throw out that ease of searching for books is something to check

before you buy one. Dh got a Sony reader as a gift and it frustrates him to no

end because you can only buy from the Sony site and their search is awful. (Dh

is not usually into reading the current bestsellers. If those are what a person

wants, it's ok. Sony makes those easy to find.)

> , mom to

[Guest guest]

At 05:25 AM 6/30/2010, you wrote:

Since many of us are drooling

over the prospect of getting e-readers, I just thought I'd throw out that

ease of searching for books is something to check before you buy one. Dh

got a Sony reader as a gift and it frustrates him to no end because you

can only buy from the Sony site and their search is awful. (Dh is not

usually into reading the current bestsellers. If those are what a person

wants, it's ok. Sony makes those easy to find.)

Yes, that's one severe reservation I have about almost all readers. Sony

you can only buy from Sony. Kindle you can only buy from Amazon. The Nook

you can only buy your books from & Noble, and so

forth.

Cannot remember if I mentioned it here, but CALIBRE software allows for

the conversion of ebook formats to other formats, which is neat, because

you can manage your books with it, and send them to your reader. Plenty

of support for different readers.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

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>

>

> At 05:25 AM 6/30/2010, you wrote:

>

>> Since many of us are drooling over the prospect of getting e-readers, I just

thought I'd throw out that ease of searching for books is something to check

before you buy one. Dh got a Sony reader as a gift and it frustrates him to no

end because you can only buy from the Sony site and their search is awful. (Dh

is not usually into reading the current bestsellers. If those are what a person

wants, it's ok. Sony makes those easy to find.)

>

> Yes, that's one severe reservation I have about almost all readers. Sony you

can only buy from Sony. Kindle you can only buy from Amazon.

you can put pdfs on kindle as well (maybe on the nook as well, but that is just

a guess).

And also with the Ipad, you can use kindle or ipad formula.

but all this stuff is in its infancy - so I imagine in the coming years, these

differences will

be finessed - or pretty much the customers will figure out work arounds - same

as they

did with things like bittorrent and etc. for tv shows.

> The Nook you can only buy your books from & Noble, and so forth.

>

> Cannot remember if I mentioned it here, but CALIBRE software allows for the

conversion of ebook formats to other formats, which is neat, because you can

manage your books with it, and send them to your reader. Plenty of support for

different readers.

No, you didn't it. Do you have a link for them?

Mara

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At 01:27 PM 7/16/2010, you wrote:

Cannot remember if I mentioned

it here, but CALIBRE software allows for the conversion of ebook formats

to other formats, which is neat, because you can manage your books with

it, and send them to your reader. Plenty of support for different

readers.

No, you didn't it. Do you have a link for them?

http://calibre-ebook.com/

It's shareware, but an excellent program which is regularly

updated.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle