My books never break down.

Mentat: My books never break down.

You're lucky to have never accidentally gotten one wet. Or burned. Or ripped up. Or lost.

Superevil: Superrad: Mentat: My books never break down.

You're lucky to have never accidentally gotten one wet. Or burned. Or ripped up. Or lost.

Or shiat on. Long story but it wasn't pretty.

"This Kindle has been flagged."

I got a Kindle a few weeks ago and it's been attached to me ever since. Love the stupid thing and haven't had a problem with it at all.

Use a zip lock freezer bag when I'm near the pool for safety. Sure is nice to travel with too.. I fly at least once a week and I just slip it in my day bag and off I go.

Yeah. Love it.

/thought I would hate it

E-readers have a definite advantage over traditional dead-tree books when you're going on vacation: you can bring a wealth of reading material in one small device.

I'm a pretty fast reader, but I've never found it necessary to bring more than one book on vacation.

raygundan: That's one area where I'll concede the superiority of a paper book. In a pinch, it's a travel-sized toilet paper dispenser.

How about "read in the tub"? Maybe it's just me, but about 2/3 of my recreational reading is done while taking a soak. I wouldn't trust an ereader in that environment.

/Or dropping it from chest level, tossing it across the room, jamming it into a carry-on bag, ...

LouDobbsAwaaaay: raygundan: That's one area where I'll concede the superiority of a paper book. In a pinch, it's a travel-sized toilet paper dispenser.

How about "read in the tub"? Maybe it's just me, but about 2/3 of my recreational reading is done while taking a soak. I wouldn't trust an ereader in that environment.

/Or dropping it from chest level, tossing it across the room, jamming it into a carry-on bag, ...



I toss it.. I've dropped it.. It's pretty tough. Obviously you can't beat the crap out of it but ya know. Treat it like a half decent cell phone.

raygundan: To each their own, I suppose, but I wouldn't take a paper book near water, either. The tub is sort of a "book unfriendly" zone for nearly every definition of "book" except maybe that new waterproof Android phone running the kindle software.

Eh, I don't mind a little water-damage waviness on the edges of the pages, especially for paperbacks.

Although the guy with the ziploc may have solved this conundrum

Maybe it's just psychological, but I couldn't see myself trying that. I'm not putting an expensive (expensive for someone with my salary, anyway) piece of electronics in a ziplock and hoping for the best. I'd be treating the thing with a level of care I don't have to worry about with real books. They work fine for my work-related reading, when I'm at a desk or in a chair at a coffee shop, but they just don't have any practical recreation-reading application for me.

Have they solved their copyright issues? IIRC they pulled a bunch of ebooks for this a year or two ago.

I'm seriously looking at one of these, mostly for periodicals and PDFs is the Kindle worth it?

I don't have a smart phone nor do I plan on getting one and the Palm Tungsten I have it a tad small for reading PDFs with pics.

Any time I've had a problem with my Kindle I just call Kindle support and they help me right away. First time I called I was surprised how quick I was able to get someone on the phone.

I get the feeling she's making this more difficult than it needs to be.

Kar98: I've been reading ebooks in the tub for nigh a decade now. Once I dropped a Palm IIIc when I fell asleep, but it was fully functional again after I dried it for a week.

I'm sure it's doable, especially with one of those waterproof containers. I just couldn't bring myself to endanger an expensive device like that for the sake of recreational reading.

I have an ereader (Entourage Edge) for work-related reading. I love it - I can save 100s of papers on it (or thousands with the expandable SD memory), annotate and take journal notes, export annotated files to PDF to print elsewhere, and it has USB ports for easy file transfer. It's doubled or tripled the amount of reading I get done for work, because I can take it to a coffee shop or restaurant and read whatever I want without having to lug around a half dozen 3-ring binders full of papers. And it's great for editing manuscripts.

But my recreational reading is done differently, and I just don't personally see an ereader being useful for it. I need to be able to beat up a book when I read it (also why I don't borrow books), and I would always be afraid of damaging or breaking a Kindle. I don't have to worry about it with work-related reading because of the environment I'm in when I do that work, but at home I much prefer a book I can beat up a little and not worry about it. It's just two different kinds of reading for me.

Masso: Pope Larry II: Have they solved their copyright issues? IIRC they pulled a bunch of ebooks for this a year or two ago.

I'm seriously looking at one of these, mostly for periodicals and PDFs is the Kindle worth it?

I don't have a smart phone nor do I plan on getting one and the Palm Tungsten I have it a tad small for reading PDFs with pics.

Seriously people. What is there to solve? You can pretty much back up your entire Kindle onto your PC and uploaded them back manually.

I understand the backing up part, but I thought that a bunch of books were deleted from the library by Amazon after it was discovered that Amazon did not own the copyright. IIRC they deleted the material off user's Kindles too.

Talon: Superrad: Mentat: My books never break down.

You're lucky to have never accidentally gotten one wet. Or burned. Or ripped up. Or lost.

One what? A book or a kindle? Because last I checked neither handle those things very well, and in fact paper books handle most of those far better than delicate electronics.

And the batteries on my books have never run down either.

THAT'S RIGHT, I'M A BOOK SNOB!

FTW.

Over 300 books on it, not connected to B&N account. Can d/l from B&N to the PC, then transfer from PC to nook. Only have one book that way, but still.