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RE: Do You Have A Kindle? - 11/9/2010 11:36:58 AM

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Having always been a bookworm, my parents bought me a kindle as a gift last December for the Holidays,its probably the best thing they ever gave me, being for me its like carying many books around. Before the kindle I used to carry many books in my bag, now I just carry one, at the moment it has over 20 pages of books. While it does have its limits, I don't go anywhere without it:)

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RE: Do You Have A Kindle? - 11/9/2010 5:10:25 PM

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Thanks for the insight, we have gotten her the Kindle 3g. I don't know much about it so it will be a learning experience. She goes on vacation a lot and for long periods of time, so i think it will help when she goes so she doesn't have to bring 20 books with her -- especially with the weight requirements nowadays. I was hoping it would be able to play the audio books becuase i think she would enjoy those also instead of just a female voice reading the text. But oh well.

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RE: Do You Have A Kindle? - 11/10/2010 12:25:30 PM

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I went a different direction from the limitations of the Kindle.
I bought a refurbished small tablet computer.. 7" screen.
It does ebooks.
It does audiobooks.
It does movies.
It checks email.
It runs GPS software with a bluetooth GPS receiver.

And, you aren't limited to buying ebooks from the Amazon store. It works well with books from the Baen Free Library and the public domain books from www.archive.org

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RE: Do You Have A Kindle? - 11/10/2010 1:57:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

I went a different direction from the limitations of the Kindle.
I bought a refurbished small tablet computer.. 7" screen.
It does ebooks.
It does audiobooks.
It does movies.
It checks email.
It runs GPS software with a bluetooth GPS receiver.

And, you aren't limited to buying ebooks from the Amazon store. It works well with books from the Baen Free Library and the public domain books from www.archive.org

Stefan

I opted not to go this direction because reading for prolonged periods of time on a backlit screen has been shown to cause eyestrain and reduce melatonin production (inhibiting sleep), the readers like Kindle and Nook can be used in even bright sunlight with no problem, the text on e-ink readers does not pixelate, and I've run my Nook for 5 weeks without re-charging (admittedly, I didn't have the Wi-Fi running).

As far as ability to read other texts, the Nook will read epub documents and PDFs natively, meaning that the Nook is also usable with public domain books and with the Baen Free Library.

Oh, and even a refurbished tablet computer costs almost 3x the $139 I paid for my Nook.

I'll be honest, I spend all day having to look at a computer screen -- I really enjoy having my small Nook, no bigger than a paperback, with no backlight to get -away- from the computer and just enjoy some reading.

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RE: Do You Have A Kindle? - 11/11/2010 2:40:52 AM

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They tell you the format is proprietary, but if you change the extension to the one for Mobi Reader, it will read fine on anything you have installed the free Mobi Reader software on.

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So the Nook and Kindle are different E-reader platforms? Are the available books the same? I rarely go to B&N, spend most of my books dollars @ Alibris, also trade books paperbackswap.com

Nook operates on the ePub format, which is the same format used by Sony Reader and iBook (iPad's bookstore). It also reads PDFs as native documents, and the PDB electronic media format (again, as native documents).

Kindle format is proprietary, but the Kindle also reads PDF documents.

(I'm unfamiliar with the Sony reader)

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