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ackblom12:

--- Quote from: jhocking on 31 Jan 2011, 04:16 ---I don't have an e-reader personally, but the people I know with Kindles primarily use them for technical/reference books. Do textbooks come in electronic editions?

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Yup, and they're about half cost or so from the college textbooks I've seen.

Papersatan:

--- Quote from: Elysiana on 31 Jan 2011, 06:44 ---I think they mean like the "c" in "Collected" in the very last image - it's got a ligature connecting it to the "t".

p.s. Beautiful book!

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yes like the one in Collected

Barmymoo:
If my textbooks had been available on Kindle, that would have fully tipped the balance for me as I spend over £100 on textbooks each year, plus an extra amount on books for the exam (which have to be a specific edition and unmarked etc so would have to be a physical copy). Unfortunately they don't seem to be available which is why I am still dithering.

For me an e-reader would be entirely about convenience, like a library in my pocket. As I said before, I love books and quite often a book I have read in the library has led me to buy another, or even the same, book. A good example is the collection of books I have with me now - one of them was bought because I had got another work by the same author out of the library and enjoyed it, and one is a French version of a book I read in English from the library.

Basically what I'm saying is that I think e-readers might even encourage some people to buy books, not discourage them. I feel the same way about music being available online or on Spotify or whatever. Greater accessibility will lead to greater sales.

Elysiana:
Ryan's grandma is legally blind and can't read anything smaller than about 24pt text. We bought her a Kindle for her birthday because she can increase the size of the text to the point where she can read it. She was so excited when he showed off his Nook and she was able to read what was on the screen, because anymore she is limited to audio books.

We have a buddy who's a small truck driver. He recently bought a Kindle and said this is the first time in years that he's actually sat down and read books. He can bring it with him on long days and take a break and get some reading done, and if he's bored with the book he's currently on he can switch over and read one of the magazines he's got a subscription to. Given the choice, he would just not bother buying or checking out physical books, but he's devouring them on his Kindle.

We got the entire White Wolf series of books so that we can bring them with us to LARP. Considering they're often $35 apiece and therefore nobody else has the whole set, they've come in handy many times. And since the printed books are all hardbound and the size of a small textbook, even the people who have them aren't going to lug around several BOXES of books to a biweekly game.

We download all our books for free, but the ones I like I still buy. There's something about holding a book and getting to enjoy its cover, and being able to easily lend it to other people.

Conversely, we bought my mom a Kindle last Christmas because she reads SO much, but she never uses the thing. She likes it but doesn't understand how to get books onto it or where to find them, and she doesn't buy books so the Amazon store isn't much help. She still prefers going to the library. It's frustrating because when we got it we told her "If you don't think you'll use it, let us know and we'll just exchange it for something you'll use" but she didn't want to tell us that she wouldn't use it because she thought we'd cry for days over it, so it was kind of a waste of $200. It's definitely not for everyone.

As far as the e-ink debate, we've found that turning the brightness down on the Nook makes it a fairly moot point. I don't think I could read it for QUITE as long as paper or e-ink without getting eye strain, but it's a pretty negligible difference. The fact that it's a tablet computer is enough to make me very happy we didn't go with the Kindle. The newer model may be easier to use, but we found that the one we got for my mom was a pain in the butt to get around on.

nekowafer:
I don't want to sound rude because I'm really not intending that. But do remember that you have the Nook Color - it's different than the original Nook because it is, as you said, a tablet computer. The original Nook is much like the Kindle only with a little touch screen at the bottom.

I'm also not trying to nag here. It's just an important distinction, I think. Also - you can try selling your mom's Kindle and get her an original Nook. She can still get books from the library. It is somewhat complicated at first though so really you might be better off just selling the thing to someone else.

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