Kindle..........can i delay any longer?

[zazen999]

I read Mr Z's kindle in the bath. I have a specific size of bag for seeds, that fits a kindle just nicely; so I pop it in there and am good to go.

Mr Z has suggested me having my own for my birthday - so if we can link 2 to one account then I will accept I think......I have kind of taken over his bless him.

I am also a book sniffer. And a bookshop fiend. But, carrying them around all the time; well a Kindle leaves me more space for my camera.

[Piggle]

Glad im not alone with my sniffing. I am a bit of a techno phobe though i guess.

[Flummery]

Indie authors are independently published. If you write a book you can publish it yourself on the Kindle. This means of course that there's some real tat out there but you soon learn to sort them out - badly spelt and punctuated Author Profiles or Book Descriptions and you go no further! There are some real gems though, but because they are not necessarily best seller material (crime, thriller, chic-lit) a big publishing house would not take them on. They therefore rely on the very slim pickings (about 30p per book) that they get through Amazon and naturally they don't have a proofreader on tap like the publishers do. Either they pay money they'll never make back or they pass it round a few friends (who probably make the same mistakes they do) and the books go live with mistakes in them. Aunty Flum if the work grabs her, offers to proof it free. I have made some lovely friends like this and I'm proud of their work.

[BUFFS]

I am being devils advocate here, I dont like them and am happy with a book, I buy pretty much all reading my books second hand at around 20 -50p each.
Even at 50p each, thats 178 books I could buy for the price of a kindle and then you still have to purchase the actual reading material on top!!
(Hasent this thread already been done before, or am I just going mad....no dont answer that )

im with you on this,i dont like the idea that you have to stop reading cause the battery has gone flat...

[Hilary B]

Indie authors are independently published. If you write a book you can publish it yourself on the Kindle. This means of course that there's some real tat out there but you soon learn to sort them out - badly spelt and punctuated Author Profiles or Book Descriptions and you go no further! There are some real gems though, but because they are not necessarily best seller material (crime, thriller, chic-lit) a big publishing house would not take them on. They therefore rely on the very slim pickings (about 30p per book) that they get through Amazon and naturally they don't have a proofreader on tap like the publishers do. Either they pay money they'll never make back or they pass it round a few friends (who probably make the same mistakes they do) and the books go live with mistakes in them. Aunty Flum if the work grabs her, offers to proof it free. I have made some lovely friends like this and I'm proud of their work.

Ooooooooooooooh! now that sounds like the best reason for buying one I have read so far!
A significant part of my work is proofreading (it helps that I get mildly obsessive about spelling, grammar and comprehensibility) and I find myself proof-reading things I come across (e.g. property details) automatically.
Doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, or miss the occasional error in what I read, but I rarely miss the same error as the writer missed...
Point is, I enjoy this part of my work even more than the other bits, so any excuse to do some more.....

[zazen999]

I have mine in my grubby little hand. And much to Mr Z's annoyance, they have changed the scarey screensavers so I get nice things [pens, pencils, and typo stuff] whereas he still gets Emily 'bejeezus Em, if you pull that face the wind might turn - oh you did that when you were a child, sorry 'bout that' Dickinson.

[DGoulston]

I agree with the fact of having a book, I really like the sight when I am 3/4 of the way through and I think god I've read all that, you just do not get the same feeling with the kindle!

Most the books I was reading recently were Stephen King, and some of them are soo large that my hands we aching reading them, which is the main thing that made me switch over to the kindle.

Also I live in a flat, and the books were piling up and we were running out of room for them.

I would choose an Kindle over an iPad, unless you really want an iPad.
Because an iPad is a personal computer, so you are more likely to get distracted by email and such, but also it weighs a ton in comparison to a kindle. I have on occasion seen people on train's with iPad trying to not get in the sun, as they could not see the screen....

I'm not sure about a kindle fire, because I really love the e-ink screen.

But I never regret buying my kindle, I also love the fact that you can try before you buy on a lot of books (usually first chapter), which is great for history/Fact books.

I am currently reading: A Short History Of Nearly Everything
which is great, and I was glad I previewed it first, because it sounded like a book that could be a little too scientific.

Darren.

[TEB]

I have mine in my grubby little hand. And much to Mr Z's annoyance, they have changed the scarey screensavers so I get nice things [pens, pencils, and typo stuff] whereas he still gets Emily 'bejeezus Em, if you pull that face the wind might turn - oh you did that when you were a child, sorry 'bout that' Dickinson.

There is a hack to allow changing screensavers but it does void the warranty, alternately if you hold the power button to the right for about 7 seconds while its turned on it does blank the screen.

[Flummery]

You can actually read while it's charging. I regularly do.

[Two_Sheds]

the only reason it [Kindle] tempts me ... is that on holiday, the amount of books I'd like to take would fill over half the luggage space I have available

I usually get all my books from the library (to keep them open for people who can't afford Kindles), but when I go on holiday (rare) I buy books from charity shops, then I leave them in charity shops, public loos or pubs, etc for other people to take.

Old-fashioned, me

[Sylvan]

I've got 800 kindle books that my brother saved onto my hard drive for me. Mostly sci-fi if you like that sort of thing.

*grins

*faints with envy

I'm the same and when we're camping I tend to leave my book on my chair so I'd be worried that it would go missing, so for me its just something else I'd have to look after like my phone but that easy because it fits in my pocket.

I take a book with me everywhere so a kindle would have a very dangerous life with me too, but it would be nice to have something easier to hold in bed (Today's book has 1050 pages - it's extremely unwieldy ).

Roll on the £50 kindle...

[zazen999]

There is a hack to allow changing screensavers but it does void the warranty, alternately if you hold the power button to the right for about 7 seconds while its turned on it does blank the screen.

I know, we discussed this whole screensaver issue when my brother and his wife were over [we had a little too much home brew wine I think, it got rather surreal] but we haven't hacked Mr Z's yet. We thought we would do both together when I got mine and now we don't need to. Why Amazon don't let us customise it is anyone's guess; those original pics are horrid. Esp Emily as above. #scarey

[Snadger]

I know, we discussed this whole screensaver issue when my brother and his wife were over [we had a little too much home brew wine I think, it got rather surreal] but we haven't hacked Mr Z's yet. We thought we would do both together when I got mine and now we don't need to. Why Amazon don't let us customise it is anyone's guess; those original pics are horrid. Esp Emily as above. #scarey

Have you got the new cheaper version without the keyboard Zaz? ........and if so wadya reckon?

[zazen999]

Have you got the new cheaper version without the keyboard Zaz? ........and if so wadya reckon?

weeeel. am logged in on it now. bit slow to type. but fine for bits n bobs.

[Alison]

weeeel. am logged in on it now. bit slow to type. but fine for bits n bobs.

Didn't realise you could go on other web sites with them - though it was just amazon and wikipedia - what's it like for general surfing?