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vivaldirules · 01-26-2008, 01:02 PM

I've had my Sony Reader for exactly six months and currently have 268 books and documents on it after having read and removed a few dozen others. I've cleared and donated one shelf of pbooks and replaced them with ebooks, thanks almost entirely to you good people! I have an increasingly long list of ebooks from here that I want to read. I've purchased 29 ebooks from Sony in addition to the 50 free "classics" (which are in no way as good as the ones found here). In the same period, I've purchased only a handful of pbooks compared to about one per week before that. I still have many technical documents (mostly PDFs converted with PDFLRF) on my Reader but I have mostly given up trying to do "real work" on it and will wait to do that on a tablet or some other more capable device later (maybe an iLiad?). I take my Reader everywhere (yes, the bathroom, too) and now read more than ever and at least some every day though it may only be the ten minute walks between my car and office at work. I've tried looking for new ways to use it (maps, grocery lists, to do lists, contacts lists, news articles, puzzles, sheet music, etc.) but have found that it works really well for literature and less well for all these others. And, I have found and love this place and the people here, too. I'm a pretty happy camper.

01-26-2008, 01:02 PM	#18
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	I've had my Sony Reader for exactly six months and currently have 268 books and documents on it after having read and removed a few dozen others. I've cleared and donated one shelf of pbooks and replaced them with ebooks, thanks almost entirely to you good people! I have an increasingly long list of ebooks from here that I want to read. I've purchased 29 ebooks from Sony in addition to the 50 free "classics" (which are in no way as good as the ones found here). In the same period, I've purchased only a handful of pbooks compared to about one per week before that. I still have many technical documents (mostly PDFs converted with PDFLRF) on my Reader but I have mostly given up trying to do "real work" on it and will wait to do that on a tablet or some other more capable device later (maybe an iLiad?). I take my Reader everywhere (yes, the bathroom, too) and now read more than ever and at least some every day though it may only be the ten minute walks between my car and office at work. I've tried looking for new ways to use it (maps, grocery lists, to do lists, contacts lists, news articles, puzzles, sheet music, etc.) but have found that it works really well for literature and less well for all these others. And, I have found and love this place and the people here, too. I'm a pretty happy camper.