05-01-2012, 10:35 AM | #46 |
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Zombie Survival Guide on my PSP.
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05-01-2012, 10:49 AM | #47 |
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Shades Of Grey books 1 2 and 3 on my kindle touch. What can I say I am soooooooo sorry my sweet sweet kindle to have ever infected you with such rubbish, and me I want those hours back.
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05-01-2012, 11:02 AM | #48 |
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The Twilight series on my 1st generation Kobo...and no, I'm not afraid to admit that
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05-01-2012, 12:39 PM | #49 |
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The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet on my Palm Tungsten E
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05-01-2012, 12:56 PM | #50 |
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Another Palm IIIX, another Peanut Press selection...but I don't remember which one. Maybe Stephen King, maybe Harlan Ellison. Surely something in the horror or sci-fi genre.
That little Palm Pilot was in my face far more than my Kindle or my iPhone. I LOVED that thing. |
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05-01-2012, 01:14 PM | #51 |
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The Hunger Games on a 1st gen iPod Touch.
I had not paid much attention to ebooks other than to scoff at the price of the original Kindle, but we went on vacation & I finished my paper book early, so downloaded THG for the Kindle app. Thought it was handy for vacation but still didn't really see a personal need for an e-reader. Little did I know my husband knows me better than I know myself. He gave me a Nook Color for Christmas a year later & I haven't looked back since Aside from packing lighter, it has an added bonus - my family & friends know how much I love it, so where I had been relying heavily on library borrows before, I now almost always have a B&N gift card on hand - woohoo! |
05-01-2012, 01:20 PM | #52 |
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It was probably Of Human Bondage on my Sony 505 followed closely by Sons and Lovers and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter as one of the main reasons I got my first ebook reader was the vast amount of free classics (that I has not read) that were available.
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05-01-2012, 02:16 PM | #53 |
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It would be The Count of Monte Cristo on a Palm IIIe
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05-01-2012, 03:32 PM | #54 |
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Now that I think of it, the first e-book I ever read was one of Shakespeare's plays back in the 1990's. The "reader" was a 386SX PC. This was when there were all these CD bundles when CD-ROM drives were still new. One of the CDs was the complete works of Shakespeare. It wasn't a good experience, and I didn't finish reading it. Reading on a DOS screen wasn't fun. I think experiences like that turned people off to the idea of e-books for quite some time.
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05-01-2012, 03:50 PM | #55 |
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Project Gutenberg was my gateway drug. I don't remember all the titles, but I read a bunch of those on my computer for a year or so. I got hooked on the hard stuff when a friend gave me some pirated ebooks. After reading those on my computer I realized that there were plenty of ebooks out there so I got myself a Kindle. The first book I read on my Kindle was Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point. The Kindle was magic for highlighting passages and making notes for the bookclub discussion.
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05-01-2012, 04:05 PM | #56 |
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Oh and yeah, I had certainly read various short stories in txt and html on computer screens well before having an ebook reader and Interactive CD Books way back in the early 90's
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05-01-2012, 04:06 PM | #57 |
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Stuff from the Baen Free Library*, both on my Mac and my Kindle when I received it.
On the Kindle it would have either been Rick Cook's Wizard's Bane, or Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon's Born to Run, IIRC. Maybe Elizabeth Moon's Sheepfarmer's Daughter. * Which has paid off very well for Baen, as I've since spent over $200 in their webstore, I think. |
05-01-2012, 04:09 PM | #58 |
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I don't actually remember. Probably something from Project Gutenberg on a PC, maybe some Sherlock Holmes. My first e-reading device was Franklin eBookman.
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05-01-2012, 05:45 PM | #59 |
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Further to my earlier post, having had most of the day to think about it, I'd say it was probably Sun Tzu's Art of War, on my PalmPilot Personal.
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05-01-2012, 08:41 PM | #60 |
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Holy mackerel, yes that rings a bell. I did in fact read both Art of War and Musashi's Book of Five Rings on my Palm device! Those were my first. How could I forget?!
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