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03-02-2011, 12:32 PM | #2 |
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The wife has one, and she loves it. It's pretty convenient to have if you are a serious reader. The ability to download books from Amazon through their whispernet is nice.
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I work with a girl that has one and loves it. I experimented with it and it is a nice display to read books on, but if she wants to read magazines as well you may want to look elsewhere.
My biggest beef with them is that I think the books should cost half what they currently do. Most are $9.99 and typically Amazon beats it's own Kindle price with real books. You have to pay to play though. |
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03-02-2011, 12:33 PM | #4 |
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Thanks, I figure if you read a lot of books the thing would pay for itself numerous times over. A lady I know told me the most she has ever paid for a book on it was $9.99 and it was a Best Seller.
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03-02-2011, 12:33 PM | #5 |
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I'd go with the iPad. We got ours for books, but we use it for everything now. But the iPad 2 is supposed to be dropping soon
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03-02-2011, 12:34 PM | #6 |
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price has dropped alot ... $139.99 iirc but books are overpriced all to hell.
make sure you get the latest version so you get the browser feature. They are handy but make sure your fiancée is ok with reading on a screen that small. Imo that is the key. The screen size is closer to paragraph versus page. maybe they could go to store and demo a screen that small to see.
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03-02-2011, 12:34 PM | #8 |
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Yep. Plus, they have a ton of free downloads, too. They may not be titles you would usually look at, but you may find some sleepers in there.
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03-02-2011, 12:35 PM | #9 |
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Can you read PDFs on one or is it some proprietary format? You can get x1000's of free ebooks from project Gutenberg.
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03-02-2011, 12:37 PM | #10 |
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have it and love it.
the book prices are quite acceptable for the most part. I've paid about 60 bucks total for books, and I literally have 400 books (including classics, textbooks, best-sellers, etc.) on it. |
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03-02-2011, 12:37 PM | #12 |
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I have a kindle, like it a lot. Buy the lighted book cover for it (an additional $50??).
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03-02-2011, 12:40 PM | #13 |
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it's better just to convert PDF to another format. There are free apps for that.
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03-02-2011, 12:43 PM | #15 |
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You can use Calibre to convert most book types and PDFs to MOBI (which the Kindles can read).
For just plain reading, kindles are the best. The e-ink is very easy to read. If you are looking to run apps, browse the internet or anything like that then you should definitely look into other options. |
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