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e-readers are amazing!
ackblom12:
Well, the thread isn't really "death to books" so I don't really think book defending is terribly necessary.
Between the e-books, I love our kindle, but I was quite disappointed by Amazon's insistence on propitiatory file format. In hindsight the Nook is what I would have gone with. Of course you'd have to be within the US to order from the Barnes & Noble store. With the non Kindle offering you can do anything at all e-pub and there are tons of blogs online that offer up free stuff, the gutenberg project that was mentioned earlier and various online e-book stores online that sell DRM free content.
If you're looking for something within the public domain cost of the book is practically a non issue. Even within the Amazon store or Barnes & Noble store, you can find free and $1 - $3 options that have al the proper e-book formatting, and on occasion actually have more content than the "real" publisher's offerings. Or of course as mentioned before get a free option from online and copy it right over.
schimmy:
--- Quote from: J on 29 Jan 2011, 05:33 ---also: why i would never buy a kindle
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amazon changed their terms and conditions after that incident, and they can no longer do that.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 29 Jan 2011, 10:24 ---Well, the thread isn't really "death to books" so I don't really think book defending is terribly necessary.
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i don't actually have a problem with e-readers, just that commercial + its associated attitudes.
i'm definitely in joseph's camp where like i can see their purpose (especially in terms of like people who are regularly mobile or in small apartments or whatever) but they definitely aren't for me
nekowafer:
I actually spent less on regular books than I do on e-books - but that's only because I went to things like http://www.bookthing.org/ where I get all the free books I want. I'm not into new books for the most part.
But, just like you can get "free" music, you can get "free" books. Plus, as others have said, there are tons of options for free to cheap books.
I really love my original Nook. It was only $150, I have awesome covers for it, and it's a lot smaller than a lot of the books I'd been reading when I bought it - like A Song of Ice and Fire. Gigantic, heavy things they were.
I wouldn't even consider getting a color Nook or anything like that. As much as I like the software, I'd rather have the e-ink technology.
Ikrik:
Mother told me she bought me a kindle today, it's going to be shipping to my house soonish. As a student, I look at my bookshelves with a sense of terror, sometime soon I will have to move and with it moves tons and tons of books. I don't think I can deal with that anymore and so having something that weighs almost nothing and takes up no space is a perfect solution.
For those who have one, what are some awesome things that I need/should know about this little device?
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