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Originally Posted by LynnDC
I'm reading mostly on my iPad. I find it easy to look at and love not needing to find a proper light source. But I don't want to always carry it with me. It gets heavy in my purse and I always stress about it being stolen if I leave it in the car.
Plus I like to sit outside and the glare is a pain.
Oh, and I do lots of library books.
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I have an iPad, iPhone and Kindle Keyboard 3G. I run the Kindle App on the iPad/iPhone and all my books on the different readers stay synced the same page like magic.
Even books I get from other sources that I send to my Kindle stay synced. I keep the Kindle for outdoor reading and use the iPad for indoors, I use the iPhone for book emergencies.
I think the using the library (if your library does this) for borrowing for the Kindle is way easier than the Nook. My library for kindle books you find the book and it redirects you to Amazon's site and it's just like buying, except you borrow. For the Nook I think you have to download it and use a USB cable and Adobe Digital Editions to authenticate and install it. But it all comes down to what your library has.
I generally use a site like Lendle.me to borrow books from strangers. Books are automatically returned after 2-3 weeks. You get 2 free borrows and from then on you get a borrow for every book you lend. It's great! I have more borrow credits than I can read!
So I'd recommend a Kindle. You clearly want a touch screen so I'd get that model...
I gave my Mom the first Kindle touch for christmas and it's great. Personally, I specifically have an older model Kindle. I wanted the older 3G model since you can go to any web site via cellular, the newer 3G models are very limited (Amazon and Wikipedia and one more I think). The older models actually display news digests differently and allow e-mailing of the digests, the new Kindles display it differently and you have to connect via USB. I obviously have geekier needs/desires in what I'm using it for, but that's why I have an old one.
Gary
FYI - I've elaborated on borrowing options and other free/cheap sources of kindle material in post #31 if you scroll down/go to the next page.