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E-Book Readers fan club!

felix said:
are you saying you can get new releases on the kindle for free, somehow? presumably illegally? seriously, i have no idea. (not that i am not asking for instructions on how to do so.)

why would you pay shipping on e-books?
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Yes. Some are illegal, and others are in the public domain. I never bought a book for my Sony reader, but it doesn't exactly have a nice bookstore either.

I didn't pay shipping on ebooks. I'm doing a viral advertising ad for half.com since I can get real books extremely cheaply. For instance, I always buy my school books on that site, since they cost me a fraction of the bookstore. I save around 100, no I don't like that term. I waste from 10-30 dollars rather than 100+ on droolcatchers.
 
I take back my likeyness for my sony prs-650. It just shat itself 6 weeks after purchase. Worse was the drama I had to go through with fucking Myers who wanted to send it away to be fixed rather than replace it. Its amazing how the "consumer affairs" words makes them bend over in every which way to help you but until then nada, zip, fuck all.
 
like spork, i stayed away this last few years from the e readers. i am just a romantic when it comes to books. i truly love them. even if not reading them, i still consider it an accessory. read into that however you like, but for me in a new home, the propensity for a library is at tops. anyhoo....

a friend recently downloaded near 2000 books on my flash drive. i am flabbergasted at the quality of what is on there, from rand to orwell, to popular crap romance, to hawking. there is such a broad range of years of enjoyable reading i am dying for an e reader now. but so many questions....do they easily read e pub files? which is the best. i was going to start a thread on this topic, happy to see yours jammie. anyone with any help, lemme know! :)
 
DarthMom said:
but so many questions....do they easily read e pub files? which is the best. i was going to start a thread on this topic, happy to see yours jammie. anyone with any help, lemme know! :)
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oh darthmilf, normally I see posts like this and carry on but you are certainly an exception.

Something to remember is the kindle has no e-pub support. Barnes & Noble's e-reader, Nook, does support it. There are a ton of other e-readers on the market, but the two aforementioned products are definitely at the top of the list. Personally, I would go with Barnes & Noble's product because of the e-pub, and therefore public library, support. There are 3G and wi-fi versions available, the latter will surely suffice.
 
AfterGlow said:
What exactly does a kindle do that a laptop cannot do with equivalent software?
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michael said:
[1.] not burn your eyeballs out spending extended time reading it.
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2. last for days/weeks on one charge

3. be readable in sunlight

3. save you several hundred dollars or pounds

4. not require a mouse or mousing surface

5. can be held in hands like a book without fatigue

6. can probably be dropped from a further height without becoming fucked

7. ???


i don't even own a kindle (yet), but even i know that much. if you're happy reading books on a computer screen, that's cool. but the kindle is dedicated to doing only one thing extremely well, and it appears that it does.
 
My only complaint about current ereaders is they're designed to display a single column of information. It's great for reading plain text. Not so great for reading technical documents with diagrams or tables.
 
yougene said:
My only complaint about current ereaders is they're designed to display a single column of information. It's great for reading plain text. Not so great for reading technical documents with diagrams or tables.
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this worries me. i like the idea of getting an ebook for school textbooks, because fucking hell, 200$ for a textbook? i know the ebook version would be half that, IF that. but i'm concerned that it won't do well for graphs/tables/math like stuff. does anyone have any experience otherwise?
 
Kenickie said:
this worries me. i like the idea of getting an ebook for school textbooks, because fucking hell, 200$ for a textbook? i know the ebook version would be half that, IF that. but i'm concerned that it won't do well for graphs/tables/math like stuff. does anyone have any experience otherwise?
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You're probably better off with a tablet or waiting for the technology to catch up.

My little android phone is better for reading school texts than my nook, which says something...
 
Man, I was sceptical about this at first. I love BOOKS, the actual physical objects, handling them, having shelves full of them to look at.

However I saw my cousins Kindle and FUCK! I want one!

To Michael above. You'd get rid of all your books? thats overkill surely. If (when) I get an e-reader it will be to complement my library, not to replace it.

I've never read it but there is a book by Anthony Powell called,

'Books do furnish a room.'

I couldn't agree more, E-Readers will never be able to fully replace the aesthetic and sentimental value of books.

That said i would kill a nun to get my hands on one.
 
not all of them. most of them. most of them just sit there, i have tons that i will never read again. there is no point to me owning them anymore. i may as well give them to someone who will view them as something other than a weight holding me someplace i don't want to be.
 
when i moved house a year ago, i got rid of *hundreds* of books. i kept about one small shelving unit's worth of my most precious ones (which is probably still around a hundred, hah. :|)

anyway, i haven't missed any of those books yet. it feels liberating not to have so much unused clutter, but i bitterly regret leaving it till the last minute and not having the time to drop them off at charity shops. straight to landfill. fuck sake. :|
 
^ There's not a charity shop or used book store you could have just left the books infront of?


I have no clue what the fuck we're going to do with all our books. About half of them are those heavy leather-bound books that look great in a library or office but are kind of unreasonable to move. :\
 
AmorRoark said:
^ There's not a charity shop or used book store you could have just left the books infront of?
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probably. but dumping a load of books outside a shop in scotland would only have left a load of papier mache. like i said, bitter regret, feelings of guilt, etc. etc. i was just attempting to make michael learn from the error of my ways. ;)

but at least books are biodegradable. unlike the depleted uranium shell casings i threw over my neighbour's wall. :D
 
oh, i am either going to put them on freecycle, take them to a used bookstore, or failing that drop them off at goodwill. of course anyone i know is welcome to stop by and take nearly anything they want.

i have had my kindle for a day now and i am even more convinced i am doing the right thing. it is freaking AWESOME.

eta: does anyone here use lendle?
 
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