Fun Stuff > ENJOY
anyone want a kindle ebook thread?
Zingoleb:
I don't really know much about e-books but I am a book whore. Can you just like...read them on your computer instead of on some stupid little device? I'd be fine with reading stuff on a computer monitor but a kindle would drive me crazy.
ackblom12:
In all honesty, using a kindle is a pretty great experience for the most part. As someone who can't stand concentrated reading on a bright LCD the e-paper is pretty fantastic.
I'd be quite interested in the idea of a e-book thread but like Alex said, it's unlikely you'll get much help here. This board has a pretty great acceptance of practically everything media in digital form, but when it comes to books it's kind of like bringing a computer to a luddite convention.
--- Quote from: Alex C on 17 Jun 2010, 00:11 ---Personally, I like e-books. Probably because I own around 300+ books that frankly I'd rather burn than move again at this point.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, I'm still trying to decide if I even want to take my books across the country when I move. I'm honestly considering donating 95% of them sometime next year before we do leave.
meanwhile:
fair enough.
i didn't know how well i'd take to reading a kindle rather than a real book, but as long as an e-book is formatted decently i forget that i'm not reading a real one. i think i might actually like it better now.
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jun 2010, 09:10 ---I don't really know much about e-books but I am a book whore. Can you just like...read them on your computer instead of on some stupid little device? I'd be fine with reading stuff on a computer monitor but a kindle would drive me crazy.
--- End quote ---
yeah, there's a kindle app for mac/pc that lets you read em, probably some other ones too. but i agree with ackblom12, the e-ink is much nicer to stare at than a monitor.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 17 Jun 2010, 10:13 ---Yeah, I'm still trying to decide if I even want to take my books across the country when I move. I'm honestly considering donating 95% of them sometime next year before we do leave.
--- End quote ---
The worst thing is that I had finally unloaded most of my fiction when my oldest uncle died and left me just a ton of really cool biographies, art and history books. About 200 of them are hardcovers that I don't know where to put but don't really want to part with. But moving with them would suck.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: scarred on 16 Jun 2010, 23:50 ---yeah i don't want to be a hater but the kindle bugs the shit out of me. i just love books too much.
--- End quote ---
It's lucky nobody is forcing you to use one and they are still making books, then!
I for one would absolutely love to have a Kindle, what with not even being able to fit my clothes in the (really quite ridiculously large) bag I am taking travelling with me, let alone a stack of books.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version