MobileRead kicks off this Summer with a Giveaway! - Page 24

adeve · 06-25-2009, 06:38 PM

hmmm... I should win as I'm probably the last person to enter this competition

and I don't have any reader yet.
No PDA, no multifunctional phone (I have a simple Nokia I can call and SMS with.) -only a laptop. So I keep buying more and more pocketbooks and had to buy a new bookshelf to store them in. This bookshelf barely fits in the house - I have no more space left for yet another one, unless I kick one of the teenagers out and I'm already enough of an Evil Stepmom as it is...

clarter · 06-25-2009, 06:55 PM

I want to enter!

My wife has a Kindle 2 and I love it's portability!
I'm a rabid bibliophile and It's the perfect Paperback replacement.
Please help me keep my bookshelves from collapsing!

clarter

VetteLady · 06-25-2009, 09:54 PM

I would like to enter the contest. Why should I be the lucky person....well...hmmm...can't think of a good reason why...but also can't think of a good reasons why I shouldn't be the lucky one. I'm like a good Boy Scout and like to be prepared. After all, what if my current reader dies while I'm in the middle of a cliffhanging chapter of my book!!! OMG, how could I survive?? My poor husband might not survive the fallout if that happened!

khang · 06-26-2009, 12:30 AM

I would love the Kindle 2 for its wireless capabilities!

zork40 · 06-26-2009, 12:45 AM

I'd like to enter. I should win because old fashion books can be heavy to cary around and I am exceptionally lazy.

gyuen · 06-26-2009, 01:47 AM

Hello,

I'd love to win one since it'd be so much nicer than reading on my computer.

CribQuilter · 06-26-2009, 01:59 AM

I would like to enter this contest.

I am sure I am not original in my reason for wanting to win a free reader, but I must put it in here per the rules. I want to win because I am sick and tired of not being able to download the free books that Amazon.com offers. SO I simply must have a kindle so I can take advantage of more free books. I will be allowing my voracious 10 year old daughter read on this new reader as well. SHe has taken an interest in my sony and it simply cannot happen I would die without it, so she must get one of her own.

Thanks

Perdy50 · 06-26-2009, 02:17 AM

Please include me in the giveaway contest. I should win, because I am the newbie around here. I came in search of advice as to which of the e-Readers I should buy if I get one. Then my husband decided to buy me an iTouch for our 7th wedding anniversary so I would be able to read my books on it.

Why an e-Reader? Well, when we retire, we want to do FULLTIME RVing instead of sitting around the house. With my macular degeneration giving me a hard time; lugging all those large print books around is gonna make having clothing in the RV a hard thing to have. So an e-Reader is the way to go.

Oh, and why a second e-Reading device; one for the RV and one for at home. That way I can grab it (either one on the go).

Finally, with Macular degeneration, the font size and type has to gradually be enlarged or changed up for a font that is readable by eyes slowly going blind.

The device I want --well, I haven't decided yet but I know my 2nd one will be the winner's prize and the retailers in the U.S.A. carry most of the devices listed in the contest rules.

All I know is LARGER font size is better for me and some of the books I read don't come in LARGE PRINT, so an e-Reader will make that happen for me.

Thanks ya'all and good luck. May the best person win!

Havndrup · 06-26-2009, 03:06 AM

I should win the ebog because it would be the perfect gift for my beloveded boyfriend for his birthday. He would not see this coming

. He always talks about how an ebog would help him so much in his studies at the university and I would have already bought him one if I had had the money for it. But I don´t since I myself am a university student. I study Biology, so I a also think that using an ebog is a very environmentally friendly way of reading.
I would like the ebog: CyBook Gen3

tcottonjr · 06-26-2009, 05:20 AM

Came here during a search for free material for Kindle DX, and just found out that there is a competitor, albeit heavier, from Sony. Thanks for opening my eyes to options, and I plan to stop back even if I do not win

As for why I would like to win a Kindle 2 as it would allow us to gain some space in our house back which is lost to bookshelves and perhaps also save us on library fines if we get absorbed in a book and forget its due date

lovestoreadalot · 06-26-2009, 05:49 AM

I am entering the contest because i have been dying to get a kindle.I should win because I absolutely love to read and have been saving all my money to buy one but am still a long ways off to complete for one.If I were to win I could use that money to buy kindle books!My son also wants one but this is the case where I would be very greedy if I were to win.It would be totally hands off!

Magmao3 · 06-26-2009, 07:27 AM

My reason for entering this give-away for an e-book reader?
Well, I live at the 'END OF THE EARTH', really I do! New Zealand seems to be the place furthest away from all the e-book readers. On top of that: NO SUMMER HOLIDAY! It's soooo cold here at the moment, but also very beautiful with the snow on the mountains.
I have been reading Mobile Forum for more than a year, almost daily, to do research on finding the best E-book reader for my needs.
I am homeschooling my three children here and we speak Dutch, English, French and German. It would be great to be able to download Dutch books from the Internet, instead of paying fortunes to postage from Holland, and to read the e-books to my children in front of the warm fire place.
As far as my choice of e-book reader: well, the only one that is officially available here would be the Endless Ideas Bebook1, because they are happy to send it from Europe to the End of the Earth.
Thanks so much for this opportunity to win an e-book reader and your forum is an excellent source of information. Keep it up with the latest developments on e-reading.

YGG- · 06-26-2009, 07:45 AM

I'd love winning a nice Sony 505 for my wife... :-))

Olympus · 06-26-2009, 08:30 AM

I enter the contest too because I want my children to notice that I'm a cool dad with an highly advanced geeky gadget and yet still uses the oldfashioned brick-phone instead of latest iPhone 3Gs

VDR928 · 06-26-2009, 08:32 AM

Yes, please enter me in the contest! Honestly, I would love to win a Kindle for my husband. He has been through prostate cancer, surgery, radiation, a knee replacemnt, salary cut, & having to take a week off without pay this year! He is a great man who raised 5 children working 2 & 3 jobs all of his life. I don't recall him ever actually getting a "break" or winning anything. Still, his attitude is one of pride for his children's accomplishments & no self-pity. He has trouble with his vision at 58 & I would love to give him a nice present like the Kindle. I think he would love it.

06-26-2009, 05:20 AM	#355
tcottonjr Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Pennsylvania Device: none	Came here during a search for free material for Kindle DX, and just found out that there is a competitor, albeit heavier, from Sony. Thanks for opening my eyes to options, and I plan to stop back even if I do not win As for why I would like to win a Kindle 2 as it would allow us to gain some space in our house back which is lost to bookshelves and perhaps also save us on library fines if we get absorbed in a book and forget its due date Last edited by tcottonjr; 06-26-2009 at 05:27 AM.

06-26-2009, 07:45 AM	#358
YGG- Dry fruit Posts: 1,157 Karma: 1047086 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Paris, France Device: Bookeen Opus + HTC Desire HD	Mee too mee too mee too! I'd love winning a nice Sony 505 for my wife... :-))

06-26-2009, 08:30 AM	#359
Olympus Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 542 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Rocket & Bookeen CyGen 3	Gadget Geek I enter the contest too because I want my children to notice that I'm a cool dad with an highly advanced geeky gadget and yet still uses the oldfashioned brick-phone instead of latest iPhone 3Gs

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06-25-2009, 06:38 PM	#346
adeve Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Finland Device: Sony PRS-505	hmmm... I should win as I'm probably the last person to enter this competition and I don't have any reader yet. No PDA, no multifunctional phone (I have a simple Nokia I can call and SMS with.) -only a laptop. So I keep buying more and more pocketbooks and had to buy a new bookshelf to store them in. This bookshelf barely fits in the house - I have no more space left for yet another one, unless I kick one of the teenagers out and I'm already enough of an Evil Stepmom as it is...

06-25-2009, 06:55 PM	#347
clarter Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 72 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Kindle DX	I want to enter! My wife has a Kindle 2 and I love it's portability! I'm a rabid bibliophile and It's the perfect Paperback replacement. Please help me keep my bookshelves from collapsing! clarter

06-25-2009, 09:54 PM	#348
VetteLady Love to Read Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Huntsville, Alabama Device: PRS-500; PRS-505 Silver, IPod Touch 1st Gen	I would like to enter the contest. Why should I be the lucky person....well...hmmm...can't think of a good reason why...but also can't think of a good reasons why I shouldn't be the lucky one. I'm like a good Boy Scout and like to be prepared. After all, what if my current reader dies while I'm in the middle of a cliffhanging chapter of my book!!! OMG, how could I survive?? My poor husband might not survive the fallout if that happened!

06-26-2009, 12:30 AM	#349
khang Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	I would love the Kindle 2 for its wireless capabilities!

06-26-2009, 12:45 AM	#350
zork40 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle	I'd like to enter. I should win because old fashion books can be heavy to cary around and I am exceptionally lazy.

06-26-2009, 01:47 AM	#351
gyuen Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony e505	Hello, I'd love to win one since it'd be so much nicer than reading on my computer.

06-26-2009, 01:59 AM	#352
CribQuilter Enthusiast Posts: 46 Karma: 306 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: Sony PRS-505	I would like to enter this contest. I am sure I am not original in my reason for wanting to win a free reader, but I must put it in here per the rules. I want to win because I am sick and tired of not being able to download the free books that Amazon.com offers. SO I simply must have a kindle so I can take advantage of more free books. I will be allowing my voracious 10 year old daughter read on this new reader as well. SHe has taken an interest in my sony and it simply cannot happen I would die without it, so she must get one of her own. Thanks

06-26-2009, 02:17 AM	#353
Perdy50 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Vaughn, WA Device: iPod Touch	Please include me in the giveaway contest. I should win, because I am the newbie around here. I came in search of advice as to which of the e-Readers I should buy if I get one. Then my husband decided to buy me an iTouch for our 7th wedding anniversary so I would be able to read my books on it. Why an e-Reader? Well, when we retire, we want to do FULLTIME RVing instead of sitting around the house. With my macular degeneration giving me a hard time; lugging all those large print books around is gonna make having clothing in the RV a hard thing to have. So an e-Reader is the way to go. Oh, and why a second e-Reading device; one for the RV and one for at home. That way I can grab it (either one on the go). Finally, with Macular degeneration, the font size and type has to gradually be enlarged or changed up for a font that is readable by eyes slowly going blind. The device I want --well, I haven't decided yet but I know my 2nd one will be the winner's prize and the retailers in the U.S.A. carry most of the devices listed in the contest rules. All I know is LARGER font size is better for me and some of the books I read don't come in LARGE PRINT, so an e-Reader will make that happen for me. Thanks ya'all and good luck. May the best person win!

06-26-2009, 03:06 AM	#354
Havndrup Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: none	I should win the ebog because it would be the perfect gift for my beloveded boyfriend for his birthday. He would not see this coming . He always talks about how an ebog would help him so much in his studies at the university and I would have already bought him one if I had had the money for it. But I don´t since I myself am a university student. I study Biology, so I a also think that using an ebog is a very environmentally friendly way of reading. I would like the ebog: CyBook Gen3

06-26-2009, 05:49 AM	#356
lovestoreadalot Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 32 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: none	I am entering the contest because i have been dying to get a kindle.I should win because I absolutely love to read and have been saving all my money to buy one but am still a long ways off to complete for one.If I were to win I could use that money to buy kindle books!My son also wants one but this is the case where I would be very greedy if I were to win.It would be totally hands off!

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06-26-2009, 07:27 AM	#357
Magmao3 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: none (yet, but hopeful!)	My reason for entering this give-away for an e-book reader? Well, I live at the 'END OF THE EARTH', really I do! New Zealand seems to be the place furthest away from all the e-book readers. On top of that: NO SUMMER HOLIDAY! It's soooo cold here at the moment, but also very beautiful with the snow on the mountains. I have been reading Mobile Forum for more than a year, almost daily, to do research on finding the best E-book reader for my needs. I am homeschooling my three children here and we speak Dutch, English, French and German. It would be great to be able to download Dutch books from the Internet, instead of paying fortunes to postage from Holland, and to read the e-books to my children in front of the warm fire place. As far as my choice of e-book reader: well, the only one that is officially available here would be the Endless Ideas Bebook1, because they are happy to send it from Europe to the End of the Earth. Thanks so much for this opportunity to win an e-book reader and your forum is an excellent source of information. Keep it up with the latest developments on e-reading.

06-26-2009, 08:32 AM	#360
VDR928 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: NC Device: Kindle 2	Yes, please enter me in the contest! Honestly, I would love to win a Kindle for my husband. He has been through prostate cancer, surgery, radiation, a knee replacemnt, salary cut, & having to take a week off without pay this year! He is a great man who raised 5 children working 2 & 3 jobs all of his life. I don't recall him ever actually getting a "break" or winning anything. Still, his attitude is one of pride for his children's accomplishments & no self-pity. He has trouble with his vision at 58 & I would love to give him a nice present like the Kindle. I think he would love it.