nwoods
Expedition Leader
Well, I seem to have left my Kindle 2 somewhere in a field in the Eastern Sierra's. Now I am contemplating IF I should replace it, and IF so, with what?
Kindle 2 - Pro's & Cons
I greatly enjoyed the tremendous battery life, the excellent daylight reading, the glare free, smudgeless screen. I enjoyed how fast it was to download books from the store, and the user interface was completely acceptable to me. I found it easy to make bookmarks and highlights.
However, I have not found it as easy to utilize those highlights and bookmarks as I anticipated, and certain reference books with exhibits and tables that were originally in color (or in light gray text) were virtually unreadable, and you could not zoom in on them to decipher them. I also am not wild about the index of books. I'd like to categorize or sort them better for easier access. (I often read several books at a time, or download several and read them serially, but finding the book in my index is just not as user friendly as it should be).
When I got the Kindle (as a gift from my wife) It was a $400 item, and I really resented that expenditure, and was hesitant to use it thinking I would probably just return it...but I quickly got addicted to it, and my reading actually went up a noticeable amount.
I have used the over-the-air Sync to sync to my PC and to my iPhone on a few occasions, and it worked well and was a good solution when I needed it.
I just found out today that Amazon is about to launch a Kindle 3, in two flavors, one with WiFi for $139 and one with 3G (only?) for $189. Those prices are great, and I can utilize my book library already purchased...
Options:
iPad? Expensive, but beautiful. Multi-functional. Not effective outside (have you seen this?), not great for your eyes at midnight in a darkened bedroom. Can I load my existing iPhone apps on an iPad and iPhone at the same time? I don't know.... I can however, for sure access my Kindle library on the iPad thanks to the free App created by Amazon.
Real Books? There is a good used book store near my house. My wife bought the Kindle because the quantity of books stacking up around the home is driving her nuts. But a $3 used book that I can share with others is definitely something to consider verses a $9 digital download that I cannot share or resell or regift or really do anything with....
Alternate readers? There are other e-book readers out there, but I don't know if they can access or read my current Kindle library?
Decisions!???
So right now, I have no idea what I want to do, I just know I'm going nuts without having ample reading material close at hand. Thank God I got my OJ issue last night!
What do you recommend?
Kindle 2 - Pro's & Cons
I greatly enjoyed the tremendous battery life, the excellent daylight reading, the glare free, smudgeless screen. I enjoyed how fast it was to download books from the store, and the user interface was completely acceptable to me. I found it easy to make bookmarks and highlights.
However, I have not found it as easy to utilize those highlights and bookmarks as I anticipated, and certain reference books with exhibits and tables that were originally in color (or in light gray text) were virtually unreadable, and you could not zoom in on them to decipher them. I also am not wild about the index of books. I'd like to categorize or sort them better for easier access. (I often read several books at a time, or download several and read them serially, but finding the book in my index is just not as user friendly as it should be).
When I got the Kindle (as a gift from my wife) It was a $400 item, and I really resented that expenditure, and was hesitant to use it thinking I would probably just return it...but I quickly got addicted to it, and my reading actually went up a noticeable amount.
I have used the over-the-air Sync to sync to my PC and to my iPhone on a few occasions, and it worked well and was a good solution when I needed it.
I just found out today that Amazon is about to launch a Kindle 3, in two flavors, one with WiFi for $139 and one with 3G (only?) for $189. Those prices are great, and I can utilize my book library already purchased...
Options:
iPad? Expensive, but beautiful. Multi-functional. Not effective outside (have you seen this?), not great for your eyes at midnight in a darkened bedroom. Can I load my existing iPhone apps on an iPad and iPhone at the same time? I don't know.... I can however, for sure access my Kindle library on the iPad thanks to the free App created by Amazon.
Real Books? There is a good used book store near my house. My wife bought the Kindle because the quantity of books stacking up around the home is driving her nuts. But a $3 used book that I can share with others is definitely something to consider verses a $9 digital download that I cannot share or resell or regift or really do anything with....
Alternate readers? There are other e-book readers out there, but I don't know if they can access or read my current Kindle library?
Decisions!???
So right now, I have no idea what I want to do, I just know I'm going nuts without having ample reading material close at hand. Thank God I got my OJ issue last night!
What do you recommend?
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