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Elysiana:
You didn't come off as rude! Yeah, the original Nook is much different. I guess what I'm saying is I'd much rather spend $270 on a tablet than buy the original or a Kindle for $170ish. But then, we had use for a tablet and we had the extra $100 to spend. Not everyone is in that situation.
I think even if we were to get my mom the Nook, she still would be lost. She's a technophobe and is afraid that she can wipe a hard drive just by hitting the wrong key at the wrong time. I mean, she's 71 years old so she's kind of used to doing things a certain way. Also I think she really just likes going to the library, but she also travels a lot so we thought the Kindle would be handy. She's coming to visit in March so I think I'm going to load her up with books and see if that helps any. She was all excited the other day though because one of my brothers got her an Amazon gift card and she bought an e-book with it. She wants so badly to like the thing, but I think she's just hesitant about trying to learn how to use it.
Even though I'm not as much of a Kindle fan, I still recommend it very highly - it's just that now that there's an alternative, I prefer the alternative, but that's all personal preference.
Scandanavian War Machine:
one more happy e-reader story from my family:
my dad and i both got kindles for christmas (thanks, mom!) and, as a gymnastics coach and gym-owner, he nearly cartwheeled with excitement when he realized he could put the entire Men's Code of Points on his Kindle.
gone are the days of carrying 158 printed pages in a binder around to meets/competitions.
you should have seen his face
supersheep:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 Jan 2011, 04:43 ---Probably meaning things like the C at the start of "Christ" at the top left of the fourth image down here (yes, that old prayer book is mine).
--- End quote ---
That is a beautiful book, Paul. Jealousy. I think that the feeling of reading books over a century old is probably the best thing about doing historical research - well, second-best, after reading old documents and thinking you're one of the few people who have touched this in the past two centuries - so I am inordinately jealous that you can do so whenever you want.
Cheers for the help on the fancy C, folks!
Barmymoo:
Alright guys you've convinced me, I'm going to start saving up to buy one of the damn things.
Barmymoo:
Come to think of it I could afford one now but... I'm going to save!.
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