E-Readers

[tombogan03884]

FU FQ 

[DGF]

I am currently carrying in my cargo pocket 15 books, 2 newspapers, and a magazine. Oh, and a dictionary.

[Badgersmilk]

Looked them over today...  Still just don't know.  

If I forget and leave a paperback book in a restaurant or something.  Not that big a deal.  Spill something on it, bend it, drop it, want to loan / give it to a friend after finishing it...  The paperback still has it's "practicality" points.

Just realized I forgot this weeks newspaper in the restaurant we just came from without getting to even open it.  

"Burro Loco".  GREAT food, but they call the place "Authentic Mexican".  I looked EVERYWHERE.  No American tourists heads mounted on the wall.  Not a single bullet hole riddled jet ski.  No pictures of submarines made from MDF board, armor plated '64 impalla's...  So where's the "Authenticity"?  



My daughter DID get to wear their Sombrero, and ride the hobby horse style "Birthday Donkey" though.     Glad she can still enjoy such "immature" things at 17...  God I'm old!   

[warhawke]

I love technology but I love real books. They require no electricity, are invulnerable to EMP, they have no wireless capability and therefore cannot be tracked, the have no screen to break, require no warranty, require no service personnel, cannot be erased by remote control and can be used to start a fire or wipe your a$$ in and emergency. Let's see a Kindle do that!

I have something over 10,000 books on my electronic media and love them, but they will never replace paper and ink until they can do everything paper and ink can do. 

[DGF]

Warhawke, that is exactly the way I felt before I got my Kindle.

[Sponsor]

[Solus]

You can store 3000 books in your Kindle.

You can put it in your coat pocket next time  you move.

You would need 120 household packing boxes to move them.

Your chances of keeping the Kindle charged an running through anything is better than getting those boxes in your bug out bag.

[crusader rabbit]

Bunny spends a couple of months each year at her "project orphanage" in rural Bangladesh.  And she's quite a reader.  It would be an impossibility to pack enough conventional books to occupy her evenings without hiring a "luggage plane."  I got her a Kindle before this year's trip.  Now, she rarely reads a "real" book.  Some months cost me $20 or $30 bucks in Kindle cash, but some months are free.  It is always less than her former page turning habit with real books.

Battery life is exceptional.  I got her two accessories:  protective cover; miniature reading light.

If you want to see her passion, go to www.charfassonchildrensfund.org and look around.

[Bidah]

My wife and I both got Nook's this last year.  With me traveling I can go through 3 books in a week and carrying that many just sucks.  I am reading more and more on just the Nook rather than getting hard books too, and she has been converting our extensive library from books to Nook (we both tend to read books several times).