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Old 03-02-2011, 12:27 PM  
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Anyone have a Kindle book reader?
My fiance is dying to get one, money could be shuffled to get one if it's worth it. Does anyone have one and love it, or know of any sweet deals on getting one, or even any advice on them?
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Old 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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Old 03-02-2011, 12:32 PM   #3
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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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Old 03-02-2011, 12:33 PM   #4
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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.
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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 03-02-2011, 12:34 PM   #7
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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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Old 03-02-2011, 12:34 PM   #8
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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.
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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 03-02-2011, 12:37 PM   #11
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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.
you can, but there can be issues with text size of PDFs/scrolling.
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Old 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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you can, but there can be issues with text size of PDFs/scrolling.
Looking it up, most of the books on Gutenberg are formatted for Kindle already.
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Old 03-02-2011, 12:40 PM   #14
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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.
PDF sucks ... you pretty much need to rotate the kinda sideways to read PDF.

it's better just to convert PDF to another format. There are free apps for that.
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Old 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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