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?

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.

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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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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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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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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