Pick your e-reader

[LadyLuck]

OK, so I just read that Barnes and Nobel are making a big announcement on Monday, and the hope is that it will be a new Nook!! I think I'm going to wait and see what they're coming out with. After thorough research, the Kindle Fire is designed to compete more with iPads than be a reader, so I figure why not see what the new Nook is like. I'm hoping that it will hold a little more true to its use as an e-reader rather than trying to be more of a hand held streaming device. I guess we'll wait an see

[LadyLuck]

So it's settled a purchased I just ordered a Nook tablet, and I'll be sure to write a review of it here when I have it in hand and have had a chance to play with it. As long as it gets here before Christmas so I can get it set up for the kids... and myself of course

[prendrelemick]

Well, I have settled for a basic Kindle at £89. I decided I would use my phone to ring up, my laptop to surf and my kindle to read books. I think I can just about cope with that.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Well, I have settled for a basic Kindle at £89. I decided I would use my phone to ring up, my laptop to surf and my kindle to read books. I think I can just about cope with that.

Good call, that's what I've done as well.

[Scheherazade]

Well, I have settled for a basic Kindle at £89. I decided I would use my phone to ring up, my laptop to surf and my kindle to read books. I think I can just about cope with that.

Good call, that's what I've done as well.

Same here.

When I was getting my ereader last year, I wondered whether I should get an Ipad but at the end decided against because I knew if I had internet access to surf (read the Forum!), I would end up doing just that instead of reading my books.

The new Kindle does look good.

[LadyLuck]

Same here.

When I was getting my ereader last year, I wondered whether I should get an Ipad but at the end decided against because I knew if I had internet access to surf (read the Forum!), I would end up doing just that instead of reading my books.

The new Kindle does look good.

I like the new Kindles too. I settled on the Nook tablet because it has both color and expandable memory. The bare basic Kindle would be perfect for me, but it isn't ideal for the kids. They would very much miss the color in their kids books. I've all the benefits of the iPad without the huge price tag. I seriously looked at the iPad, but they're just too expensive. I'm sure I'll be pretty happy with it, but I'm going to need to keep the games off it and internet usage to a minimum. I really don't need Netflix and such on it, but I'm sure I'll end up using it, just as long a books come first.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I read something about a Lending program on thousands of books that allow "Amazon Prime" (which entails a monthly fee and other benefits--something I'm not a member of) members to borrow books from Amazon for free.

Here's a quote from the site:

"With Prime, Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers – as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates."

It sounds like an attempt to compete with the Nook's ability to use libraries. I'd love to know how many books can be borrowed, as "thousands" is quite vague. If it's only a few thousand, that's not very many. And I'm not interested in New York Times Bestsellers, either.

[LadyLuck]

I read something about a Lending program on thousands of books that allow "Amazon Prime" (which entails a monthly fee and other benefits--something I'm not a member of) members to borrow books from Amazon for free.

Here's a quote from the site:

"With Prime, Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers – as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates."

It sounds like an attempt to compete with the Nook's ability to use libraries. I'd love to know how many books can be borrowed, as "thousands" is quite vague. If it's only a few thousand, that's not very many. And I'm not interested in New York Times Bestsellers, either.

Me too. I know the prime fee here is around $80 USD. I don't know anywhere else. On the flip side, the only one a month is what turned me off. One a week, maybe, but one a month isn't enough.

[BlackCat]

This is a bit off topic here but what is your opinion regarding the kindle? Like it?Hate it? Apathetic? Do you prefer a book over a kindle?

[YesNo]

I hear I'm going to get one as a present for the holidays. I wonder if I'll use it more than the iPod I got some years ago in the same way. However, I like the cloud storage for purchased items.

[LitNetIsGreat]

This is a bit off topic here but what is your opinion regarding the kindle? Like it?Hate it? Apathetic? Do you prefer a book over a kindle?

Love it. My some of my thoughts on it are covered in the similar thread below:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=32562

(Tip: if you are getting a kindle then you need a case as well but don't buy the rip off Amazon ones at £30-50. Instead you can pick up some equally good ones on ebay for under a tenner.)

[Ragnar Freund]

Gone.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Hey, something we can find common ground on, Ragnar!

I love mine. I've had several. Highly recommended.

[Lokasenna]

I had a play with a friend's kindle a little while ago. I wasn't exactly... overawed.

I don't know, I guess I just have a passion for the book as a physical object. I love to leaf through it, to feel its weight, take in its smell. E-books just seem somehow ephemeral and unreal to me.

Plus, so many of the books I read aren't available on kindle...

[BlackCat]

I love paper books and all, but the fact that you can buy so many philosophical and classics for free on kindle is a great appeal.