OT Who's still loving their Kindle?
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I definitely still use mine every day. It's one of those things I wouldn't want to go without.
The wife has got 2 sony ebooks, and she loves those much more than the kindle her friend has. Personally, I prefer paperbacks... something about the smell and feel of the pages between my fingers and thumb.
I just got a Kindle in July for my birthday and I love it. I was still in my 30 day period when they started taking preorders for the new one, but i stuck with mine cause i didnt want to be without it at the pool this summer. I read a ton on my kindle.
right there with ya. i look at a computer screen enough as it is.
I used to love my Kindle, I have the first model.. I tried to Nook earlier this year, but I had to put it in the drawer to collect dust, because the Nook freezes up too often and its a pain in the .... to unfreeze. Since they announced the Kindle 3, I pre-ordered mine on July 30th... The order says Shipping soon, and I've been charged, so maybe that means I'll have it soon, if I remember right, the first few days they had it for order, said it'd ship Today.
My Nook never has froze, I have never had any problems with it, works great. I would take that one back, sounds like there is a problem with it that is not common.
I have both, and imho - the screen on the kindle is far more readable than the Nook with less eyestrain in bright or direct light.
Traveling quite a bit, the kindle makes a ton of sense for me. Carrying books around while traveling by train, plane, automobile just isn't practical.
I have a new Android-driven touchpad, but the TFT just contributes a ton more eyestrain than the transreflective with eInk.
Sooper: The transreflective screen with eInk looks nothing at all like a backlit TFT screen. Doesn't look the same, doesn't read the same, doesn't render the same, and is infinitely closer to a book's page than a computer rendering.
Traveling quite a bit, the kindle makes a ton of sense for me. Carrying books around while traveling by train, plane, automobile just isn't practical.
I have a new Android-driven touchpad, but the TFT just contributes a ton more eyestrain than the transreflective with eInk.
Sooper: The transreflective screen with eInk looks nothing at all like a backlit TFT screen. Doesn't look the same, doesn't read the same, doesn't render the same, and is infinitely closer to a book's page than a computer rendering.
A lot of people have had that problem with their Nooks.. I did a search on the problem when I first started having it and it was/is very common. The 1.4 update for the Nook was supposed to fix the problem, but it didn't for me. I would take it back if I could, but I didn't get the warranty, so I can't now. It didn't start freezing up on me until a couple months after I purchased it. It would always freeze up while it was in screen saver mode and had to take the battery out/etc to unfreeze it.
If I get a Nook again, I think I will wait for the second or third generation (if they make them that long) and give it another try then. I guess it is not always a good idea to buy something when it is only in its first generation, but you never know. The sad thing is, I was actually enjoying it too, but it wont stop me from buying a later generation Nook somewhere down the line.
I learned to not get frustrated enough when something doesn't work the way it should, or the way I want/expect it to. If I had done that, I probably never would have gone back to vaping, after all the frustrations last year with batteries only lasting 1-2 weeks, before they defected, when I was vaping another brand. So maybe in a year or two down the road, I'll give the Nook another try, but not right now.
Wow thank you for the info!
I just bought mine about 6 weeks ago, it is the newer 3G version, I wonder if that is why I am not having any problems with it...knock on wood.
I should add that I also use my I Pad for downloading books and have been using that a lot more because it is easier to see.
My wife loves her iPad, but she prefers to read on the ebook. She says the backlight on the iPad causes her eyestrain, and since her lasik, she's gotta be more careful about that kinda thing.
Wow thank you for the info!
I just bought mine about 6 weeks ago, it is the newer 3G version, I wonder if that is why I am not having any problems with it...knock on wood.
I should add that I also use my I Pad for downloading books and have been using that a lot more because it is easier to see.
You're welcome and it might be fixed in the newer version, but I am not sure. I'd like to get an I-Pad, but ever ytime I get a I-Pod touch it seems like they come out with a new model, so I am going to wait for a generation or two on the I-Pad as well, just because.
Just don't get it thinking it's for reading books...
Like everything else that comes from there, it's overpriced, unpowered, and underfeatured, but you can tell everyone you have one.
eReaders are for reading, tablet computers aren't. And there are certainly a LOT of tablet computers that are less money and far more featured.
Like everything else that comes from there, it's overpriced, unpowered, and underfeatured, but you can tell everyone you have one.
eReaders are for reading, tablet computers aren't. And there are certainly a LOT of tablet computers that are less money and far more featured.
Yeah, I know, I wouldn't get one if I wanted it just for reading books. I doubt I would use it for reading books at all, there would be other reasons I'd get one. Though I've also thought about getting a tablet computer, which one would you suggest? or better yet, which few would you suggest, so there are options to compare and such?
The only reason I would lean towards an I-Pad is that there are a number of Apps I have on my I-Phone that have to do with things I have interest in and they have I-Pad versions of them as well, which would be easier to manipulate on an I-Pad compared to on a I-Phone/I-Pod Touch. The only other problem is, I'd want one of the models that have the 3G, because of the GPS chip in them, as a lot of the programs I use have the ability to set/record GPS co-ordinates for recording information, so it is something that is a must have for me.
Yes, I am a big technophile if you can believe that.
I can not beleive I am about to agree with Lynn on this, but the Ipad is just a big over priced joke.
She is very accurate, there are far more usable and cheaper tablets out on the market that have more flexible OS's, do not restrict the users and consider total function over total fasion.
As with almost all of Apple's products they really do not reinvent anything, they just make some tweeks and make it seem cooler. Apple has a great PR and marketing department, best in the business IMHO.
I have a HP tablet TC1000 series unit that I have had for some time. I have had it side by side with a friend of mines Ipad and there just is no comparison in what my HP can do over what the Ipad can do, and my HP is over 5 years old.
In any case, it still amazes me with over 15 years in the IT industry that people can still be wowed into buying over priced, underpowered, crap, just becouse it looks cool.
Having used a Kindle before, I would buy one if my purpose was a E reading device over anything else on the market, becouse it is what it was built to do.
I would however, not in my lifetime by a Ipad, Iphone, Ipod or anything else apple wants to sell, its all crap IMO. To many other products out there that are far cheaper and do things far better.
anyway, just my 2 cents.
Mabbo
She is very accurate, there are far more usable and cheaper tablets out on the market that have more flexible OS's, do not restrict the users and consider total function over total fasion.
As with almost all of Apple's products they really do not reinvent anything, they just make some tweeks and make it seem cooler. Apple has a great PR and marketing department, best in the business IMHO.
I have a HP tablet TC1000 series unit that I have had for some time. I have had it side by side with a friend of mines Ipad and there just is no comparison in what my HP can do over what the Ipad can do, and my HP is over 5 years old.
In any case, it still amazes me with over 15 years in the IT industry that people can still be wowed into buying over priced, underpowered, crap, just becouse it looks cool.
Having used a Kindle before, I would buy one if my purpose was a E reading device over anything else on the market, becouse it is what it was built to do.
I would however, not in my lifetime by a Ipad, Iphone, Ipod or anything else apple wants to sell, its all crap IMO. To many other products out there that are far cheaper and do things far better.
anyway, just my 2 cents.
Mabbo
LOL believe me I do not just use the Ipad for reading only.
Hubs is a gadget freak and that is the only reason I even have one
I did not even take it out of the box for a month after he bought it, I have a nice little notebook that I love.
Hey, I buy vaping supplies and he buys gadgets.
Hubs is a gadget freak and that is the only reason I even have one
I did not even take it out of the box for a month after he bought it, I have a nice little notebook that I love.
Hey, I buy vaping supplies and he buys gadgets.
Just ordered a Kindle 3 (wifi version) yesterday. Hoping to actually get it sometime in September. I splurged and ordered the lighted cover as well (ouch). I have great hopes for it.
Has anyone actually received a Kindle 3 yet? Were they ever available before they went out of stock?
I got a Nook in July and love it. Then again, I would probably love a Kindle as well. I think I just love ebooks in general. I've had a Rocket Ebook, a SoftBook, a Sony Reader, and now the Nook. It just makes me laugh when people talk like the Kindle was the first e-reader ever, I had my Rocket back in the '90s, and the Softbook, although larger, did more than most of the current ones do (color screen, capacity for hand-written notes).
Some pretty big differences betwixt the early stuff (which weren't _really_ dedicated "ebooks" - they were re-purposed palm-tops. Like my old Franklin eBook, which was an original Palm)
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