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How badass is that kindle? Are the books cheaper since they don't have to be printed?
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
The true story of 246 Marines and Corpsmen tasked with holding a vital pass along the MSR during the 1st Marine Division "breakout" of the Chosin.
It is unfair to compare their story to the legendary "300" at the battle of Thermopayle.
They were better.
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
An account of a man and his wife who decide to chuck it all and move to the islands. Good quick read and the author has a great sense of humor.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The novel that inspired the movie "Blade Runner". I wish I had read this before ever seeing the movie. Kind of anti-climatic for me.
Up on deck, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
How badass is that kindle? Are the books cheaper since they don't have to be printed?
When I first got it, I didn't think I'd like it but it has grown on me. Most of the books available are priced about the same as a paperback. I've also downloaded a bunch of the "classics" (The Man Who Would Be King, Princess Of Mars, A Tramp Abroad, etc) that you can get for free.
That is awesome dude. I want one bad so that I don't have random books lying around in my car, desk, home, etc. That way I can just download them the the day they come out instead of looking all over the place for them.
My dad is really, really loving his. My sister in law has one and I believe she said she's got all her grad school text books on it; I think that's pretty cool. I am seriously considering getting one for my daughter to put an end to the piles of books around the house---I've never been a fan of cases of already read books in the house. I only keep one book in progress, and one on deck ready to go; when finished I pass them on to someone else.
Hey since you are a richer and love buying those things go ahead and get me one too. Or just give me your daughters because she is already tired of it.
If I'm going to spend the time reading a book I want to put it on a shelf for the world to see and congratulate me.
Same here.
Especially now that I can be double congratulated -- once for just reading the book, and once for rejecting cold, impersonal techno-gadgets.
I got one for college. It's good for your literature classes, religion classes, cultural classes etc, but not for much else. It's certainly no good for science classes or art classes where diagrams and pictures are of monumental importance.
The last book I completed on my Kindle was Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood.
We bought one for timvp's dad for Christmas, and he seems to like it a lot. Personally, I love having lots of books around the house -- so I'm sticking with actual books for now.
But I can't put a Kindle on my bookshelf like a trophy once I'm done with it.
I just check them out from the library
If you liked Oryx, then give "The Year Of The Flood" a run. It parallels the story.
I've never walked into someone's house and thought "Ooooh look at all those books!! Man what a brainiac" I always think "Damn, I wonder whose job it is to dust those things?!?"
I'm the same way with having books around. The Kindle was a gift, and I've found it has grown on me. The only thing I don't like is if read a really good book I want to share, I don't know of a way, short of loaning the whole shebang, to get around that.
I used to do that when there was a library closer to us... Although there were times when I liked a book so much that I went out and bought it, even though I probably won't ever read it again.I just check them out from the library
I bought one of the original Kindle's about one month before the new one came out. But I'm not bitter.
I love it, because it saves me lugging a bunch of books around, and the dictionary feature is awesome. The new DX would be perfect for me because it can handle native pdf papers, but I haven't gotten one because they still don't allow you to sort les into folders.
I've been getting a bunch of the cheap/free classics: reread The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Count of Monte Cristo. Also, finished the last Spenser mystery about a week before Robert B. Parker died.
Next up: Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
Wow, that's a big step forward for you.
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This is all very nice in theory. Frankly I ran out of space for books in my house years ago (and I still can't get out of a bookstore empty handed).
My first e-reader was the prototype of the SONY 500 e-reader 4 (5?) years ago. I absolutely love it and since I go in average through 1 book per week - usually while traveling, it is THE solution for me. There's a perverse luxury of having a small library available to you all the time. I currently own my 4th reader (destroyed and/or lost the previous 3).
There's software online (I like Calibre) that allows me to create e-books from pdfs and similar, so I actually use my e-reader for books and for professional literature.
I'm going to buy a kindle sometime in the next year since amazon has started offering it in Europe and while it has a reduced catalog compared to the US it's still the largest one available here.
I never could read for longer periods from an electronic screen. My eyes would hurt and a headache would follow shortly. I have no problem with the "electronic ink" screens used in e-readers and I can honestly say that it doesn't really feel any different from paper.
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My sister and brother-in-law got the Kindle app for the iPhone and it is AMAZING. I was skeptical at first because of the small screen size, but if I had an iPhone (and if it did true mul asking), I would probably use that exclusively.
If you get the Kindle DX, it reads native pdf so you won't need the conversion. Like I said, the problem is organizing mass quan ies of papers without the ability to use folders.
The Whispernet is cool, if a little buggy at times. But what are you going to do with your eReader inventory then?I'm going to buy a kindle sometime in the next year since amazon has started offering it in Europe and while it has a reduced catalog compared to the US it's still the largest one available here.
In theory the SONY e-readers always had the ability to display pdfs. In reality most pdf manuals were unusable. The latest versions are better at it, but with Calibre you can actually reformat a few things and adapt it to the reader.
I absolutely agree on the folders though. All of the above is useless without some sort of filling system (the Sony has so called collections) and I use "my" books on a memory stick and the "real" books on a CF. Not ideal but it works.
Very good question to which I don't have an answer yet. Since my first reader I was always able to transfer my inventory from one model to the other (sometimes using not completely kosher methods), but for the kindle I don't know yet what to do.
For now I've decided to delay the purchase as long as possible and hope that a (better) solution becomes available.
so we're supposed to believe you read books?
lol believe it or not.Just finishing up a Koontz book.
Also I would have gone with:
So we're supposed to believe you can read?
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