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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Some of my friends are like your hubby they are not sure of themselves around technology and like to have other experts around them to be tech support. Myself, I have learned to be mroe sure of myself around technology and have always been the first on my block and/or in my family to adopt a new technology. I just installed internet radio at home and I love it. I think this has more to do with one's confort level with our own ability to master new skills and new technology. I have always been the one to meet new chellenges in my family rather unlike my pop whose home is based on 1970's technology.
What I did not see in your inital post is a disucssion of what you and your family need in terms of an electronic reader. I am not attempting to disparage a kindle, I am primarily a Kinderler myself, but there is no one best reader for all people. I think that the Kobo would have been a better fit since the Kobo is the simplest reader on the market, the Kobo has one button and only one.
Now that you have your kindle make sure that you read the oddball books that Amazon carrys such as a book that recently read, from Amazon, and love it called Cibola by David Wood. I mean lets face it Amazon has everything. If you don't read those oddball books you might as well have bought a Kobo and save some dollars and not gotten the ability to buy abosolutely any electronic book you can immagine. Another thing is explore those customization options that the kindle has that no one else has, you can put your name in your kindle, not something my blackberry electronic readers will allow.
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Interesting points. I did discuss how I got where I am in
this thread.
I am basically not a techy person. although I'm not scared of technology. But I am far from being a geek. I am lazy in that I don't want to go to a lot of trouble over something that is basically a tool. At the time I started looking for a reader in the UK kobo was not available. I read a lot about Sonys and Kindles and didn't finally decide until the launch of the K3, which seemed so cheap that if it proved bad it wouldn't be a disaster.
At my age I am very much aware of the limited time ahead of me in which to read and I have become less rather than more adventurous in my reading. There is such a wealth of stuff I already love or know I want to read that I don't actively seek out all that many new books. One of my motives in getting an ereader was to be able to dispose of most of my considerable library (built up over about 55 years) of dt books. I want to simplify my life and I long ago ran out of space. I love books, but it is possible to love things too much.