Kindle vs Books!

[anonymous-user]

Mutley said:

Got my Kindle Touch back in March, and i love it, it's great for the commute.

While I still enjoy a real book, the Kindle means I can carry many books for whatever mood I'm in that day. Although, going to the beach/pool would require a paperback.

If i have one complaint, it's regarding the Terry Pratchett books, the foot notes are all at the back of the book, and I haven't quite figured out how to read the note in relation to the comment in the text.

My OH also has this complaint about these books if you do work it out can you please let me know?

[LordGrover]

Just navigate to the indicator and click the clicker and back to return.

ETA. I have keyboard kindle - didn't notice touch bit until I'd jumped in. Apols.

[anonymous-user]

LordGrover said:

Just navigate to the indicator and click the clicker.

she is now very happy thanks

On the subject of Kindle vs Books the OH reads an awful lot especially when I am watching sport (which is also a lot) I have been banging on about Kindles for about a year but she is a bit of a Luddite and insisted it wouldn't be the same

Anyway her birthday was coming up and I thought sod it I'll get her one and if she hates it I'll have of get her something else

She loves it, she will still buy normal books but she is very attached to her Kindle

[FlossyThePig]

grumpyscot said:

FiF said:

This ^^, me too.

Also you cannot borrow books from the local library in a format suitable for Kindle. US libraries you can.

But if you use Calibre software on your P/C you can convert it to Kindle format.

I bought a Kobo Touch because I can borrow books from Suffolk libraries. Calibre cannot convert them, you get a message that the book is locked by DRM.

[AnimalMkIV]

I like the idea of a Kindle. I got the app on my phone and find it great to be able so sit and read at the breakfast table in the b&b when I'm working away and at any point where I've got a bit of spare time where I'd either be sat twiddling my thumbs or playing some mindless game on my phone.

There is still a place for good books (I'm currently collecting the hardback collectors editions of A Storm of Swords), but for sure in the case of general paperbacks it's great and there are some really good free books out there. I've probably got a good years worth of reading just from browsing Amazon's free Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror section.

[jgtv]

Silver said:

The only thing I would like to see is a Kindle library between users.

I'm a big lender and borrower of books from friends and the Kindle precludes that.

If your friends have kindles, you can switch users so you log onto there kindle and they log onto yours download your books and your sorted, both lots of books should be on both kindles good way to share them, not sure if its quite that simple but its been done to my one so that I can get my brothers books and he can get mine.

It will only swap the books YOU get from Amazon though.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

I was anti kindle for a long time. I believed the books would be a better reading experience, more tactile, etc etc.
I was given a kindle about a year ago and haven't picked a book up since. I love everything about it and read far more now than I used to. Stephen Leather has been the main beneficiary.

[hairykrishna]

I like both, read either more or less interchangeably these days. I don't have a 'kindle' though - I have a generic chinese ebook reader (Hanvon). This reads basically any format and gets around a lot of the kindle disadvantages. Can't see me giving up the dead tree versions any time soon though.

[Davey S2]

Obiwonkeyblokey said:

I was anti kindle for a long time. I believed the books would be a better reading experience, more tactile, etc etc.
I was given a kindle about a year ago and haven't picked a book up since. I love everything about it and read far more now than I used to. Stephen Leather has been the main beneficiary.

Same here although funnily enough I'm currently reading The Chinaman by Stephen Leather in paperback as the o/h had a copy of it.

[probedb]

I actually have a Nexus 7 but with the Kindle app and Google's Play Books. I'm not a big reader but have been reading a whole load more since I got it. Kind of wishing I hadn't bought the Game Of Thrones set in paperback now!

[marcosgt]

I read some books on kindle apps on my android phone and iPad, but I generally prefer books on paper still.

I usually pick up bargains on the deal of the day for the books I do get on kindle and I have read a broader spread of books because of that.

So, books for me, most of the time.

M

[Stu R]

Only books I've bought since buying my kindle are what I guess you could call coffee table books. Everything else, if there's a kindle version, that's what I get. I love it.

[RobDickinson]

Love my kindle, paper is past it.

Kindle is easier to read, lighter, more portable etc.

(also doesnt hurt when it falls on your head and easy to pick up after an earthquake...)

[FunkyNige]

The thing I miss most about paper books is the variety of different fonts, font size, line spacing, etc. that you get in books. I know you can change some bits on the Kindle and that they are book specific, but there's something about quick books having bigger text and long novels taking an age to read a page that you just don't get on the Kindle. Every novel I've bought since I got my Kindle has been on Kindle mind.

[Stu R]

I don't. As much as I really love typography I've usually got more reason to complain about it than commend it with paperbacks. I bought a ton of them when borders bit the dust and were liquidating stock, far too many have horrible low quality paper and poor typography.

[lenandsons]

Both have there place. My Kindle languished unloved for about a year and then I started commuting by train and it is just so much easier to pack the kindle rather than lugging a book around or books as I always seem to end up with 3 or 4 books in my laptop bag

[Nightmare]

best bit of technology ever for me....
the new paperwhite looks very tempting but there's really nothing wrong with my current one - just fancy buying something i think!

Wishes: lending between kindles as previously mentioned. it would be very handy as me and the missus share taste in books and there's no way we're buying two copies of things
Also...I have bought a LOT of books over the years. It would be nice that if you had bought a hardcopy of a book through amazon in previous years you could get a free kindle version too - after all, its the IP you're paying for....

[LordGrover]

No problem with having two kindles on the same account, although you'll only have one set of 'bookmarks'. Your missus and you can have the same or different books from the cloud on the same account though.

[Nightmare]

oh really? so at the moment im guessing mine is linked to my amazon account and hers to hers....how can she get to see books on my account (and would it wipe out whats shes got? I have a feeling im being thick.....

[LordGrover]

Only one account at a time, so yes, existing books would be retained in the cloud, but not available to other account. It's only the same as having your kindle, kindle fire, kindle ipad app, iphone app, etc for the same account.