Kindle

[jfk06]

I saw a post in my feed lamenting the lack of updates.  Since I've been thinking about posting, I figured I'd finally do it :-)

A few months ago, I decided to try out our Kindle for real.  Saeed has been using it to read articles, etc while traveling, but I never did.  So, since I had some free time, I bought The Hunger Games and settled in to read

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[sirrogue]

Yay, posts!

Thanks for the Kindle info. I've been debating the idea, but a lot of the cons you list are big ones for me, too. I need to know how much farther I have to go to an actual stopping point, and how many pages I've progressed. And I still don't get how they can charge the same for an e-book as a p-book. If I thought the difference from not printing was going to the author I might not mind, but I know it's all going to publisher. :( And my biggest peeve; I love sharing books! Lending books, swapping books, borrowing books, gifting books. To my knowledge, you can't really do that with Kindle, can you?

I do really like the one-handed or propped-up aspect, though; especially for the gym. Hmmm.

Man! How about THG tril? I hesitate to call it enjoyable, but definitely engrossing. I felt a bit emotionally battered by the end of MJ, and a bit perplexed by the ending. (being intentionally vague to not spoil potential readers on your flist). But yeah. Whoa.

[jfk06]

Hahaha ;-)

I'm glad we got one ... I think if the price comes down a bit more, it'll weight the balance toward firmly pro-Kindle. But there are definitely some design issues that need to be addressed.

And no, no sharing books. Which has been GRATING on me because I keep wanting to lend THG series to people and I can't! Apparently, you can lend books using the Nook, so maybe it will come to Kindle soon.

[flaggday]

Re: Ebook cost, Charles Stross wrote several blog entries about the process and economics of publishing in general with some details of how it relates to Ebooks. This is just the first one in the series I get from Google

[jfk06]

Huh, that's interesting... I didn't know that! It would be nice if the extra money went to the authors though.

And I have Amazon Prime, too. I love it! But it still doesn't get the book into my hands within 5 minutes ;-)