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Phebe · 01-22-2011, 05:40 PM

I abandoned my Sony Reader for a Kindle 2; and abandoned the Kindle 2 for an iPad. I carry the iPad everywhere in my purse, never leave home without it, and I read in bed in the dark on sleepless nights.

I LOVE the look-up capacity of the iPad: a pronouncing dictionary app, Wikipedia for quick what-is-that look-ups, and best of all the hypnotic Apple Maps feature, with which I find I follow the journeys in every novel --- except the sci-fis. It's amazing what a good added dimension to a novel carefully following the geography can bring: you can even get down to street level in many areas now, including Europe. Walking along a street of a rebuilt village destroyed in World War I was creepy; there actually IS a Monte Cristo island, precisely as described by Dumas, between Sicily and Leghorn, and every place in Michael McDowell's wonderful horror "Elementals" is really there on the Gulf Coast.....except the sandspit on which the three houses of Belle Dame disappear in a giant cone of white sand.

I agree that I wish Amazon and Apple (the two dealers I buy most books from) would set up Collections like Sony Reader has --- that really works well. But it's crucial to me to have all my books or samples in one physical device. I'm trying to phase out the last seven books trapped in the Sony Reader PRS-500 now.

01-22-2011, 05:40 PM	#50
Phebe Connoisseur Posts: 85 Karma: 124 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Sony PRS 500 and Kindle 2 and iPad and iPhone	I abandoned my Sony Reader for a Kindle 2; and abandoned the Kindle 2 for an iPad. I carry the iPad everywhere in my purse, never leave home without it, and I read in bed in the dark on sleepless nights. I LOVE the look-up capacity of the iPad: a pronouncing dictionary app, Wikipedia for quick what-is-that look-ups, and best of all the hypnotic Apple Maps feature, with which I find I follow the journeys in every novel --- except the sci-fis. It's amazing what a good added dimension to a novel carefully following the geography can bring: you can even get down to street level in many areas now, including Europe. Walking along a street of a rebuilt village destroyed in World War I was creepy; there actually IS a Monte Cristo island, precisely as described by Dumas, between Sicily and Leghorn, and every place in Michael McDowell's wonderful horror "Elementals" is really there on the Gulf Coast.....except the sandspit on which the three houses of Belle Dame disappear in a giant cone of white sand. I agree that I wish Amazon and Apple (the two dealers I buy most books from) would set up Collections like Sony Reader has --- that really works well. But it's crucial to me to have all my books or samples in one physical device. I'm trying to phase out the last seven books trapped in the Sony Reader PRS-500 now.