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| Brass_Machine:
I have a Kindle. I use it primarily for pleasure reading (3 hours worth of commuting a day) and not tech books. I am very pleased with it. I have probably read over 100 books on it. Battery lasts forever. I would recommend it. Eric |
| kwackers:
I use a Sony eReader for reading books and an iPad for technical docs. Basically, if you want to flip quickly through stuff (PDF's etc), zoom in and out to look at detail then the iPad (or it's ilk) is king. If you want to read books - or slowly work your way through technical docs then the kindle or equivalent is what you need. Much easier on the eyes. |
| Troutsqueezer:
My wife is an avid reader. Used to be she'd say how a Kindle could never duplicate the reading experience you get from books. I bought one a few weeks ago for myself. The next day we were back at Best Buy getting one for her. What I like is that you can download for free the first two chapters of any book and decide if you like it before buying. Turns out I'm pretty satisfied with reading only the first two chapter of most books. You know, attention deficit disorder an' all. :beer: |
| PTsideshow:
Ok since it seems that this group is kindled. Since I don't read best sellers or popular fiction of any kind. Can you download from other sources and formats if you have the app for the pc say? Google books or any of the four sites I posted in the book shelf, and does the pdf format and any other work as good on the kindle. And how does it handle color pictures? Or should I say has anybody on here downloaded and of the kindle formats from any of the sites? |
| spuddevans:
Yea you can download to the kindle from your pc. It is compatible with PDF and word and some other formats too, one program to get is "Calibre", it is great for getting free e-newspapers and other formats converted to read on the Kindle or other E-reader. Colour pictures are rendered in B&W, and to be very honest, pictures are not the Kindle's best asset. Another handy thing about the Kindle, when you register it with amazon you get a free email address so that you can just email docs or epubs direct to the kindle, you can even ask amazon to convert the emailed document to the kindle format ( I havent had the greatest success in the conversions yet ) Then once your kindle is in range of your wifi router it will receive the emailed documents without need to find the USB cable. Tim |
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