[DougFNJ]

Hello all,

Haven't been active for awhile, but I've gone full circle with E-ink ebook reading. Quick history....

I joined this site back in 2006 when E-Readers were just beginning to grab a little traction. I started getting into E-Ink Ebook readers back before Kindle when the Sony Reader came to market. They of course did VERY little marketing followed by Kindle doing a lot of marketing, followed by increasing their marketshare on books. I don't think we need to talk about what happened to Sony.

I got out of the E-ink books when the iPad got introduced, and went solely with that as my primary consumption device. It's funny, I took a little look at my post history and got a kick out of reading about preordering the 1st Gen iPad. While it is great for so many things, and between iBooks, and the Sony Bookstore I couldn't move to the Kindle because I had too much money invested in DRMed EPub. I have used my Kindle apps on my iPad and iPhone for some books that were available on Kindle, but not iBooks, but remained unfortunately naively loyal to EPub.

2 years ago , my boss gave us Kindles for Christmas, and I downloaded the books I purchased on the Kindle App, held onto that for a couple years, but never really used it. Then the Paperwhite released, and I was intrigued. Since I tried to find ways, and couldn't move my collection over, I stayed on the sideline periodically searching ways to remove the DRM from the books I paid for so I could read them on multiple devices. I periodically tried converting through Calibre, but iBooks DRM was too strong.

This August, I am taking a nice long vacation on the beaches of Cancun. I love to read, and so I wanted to take a look at the E-ink readers that are available. A couple weeks ago, I was at Best Buy and looked at the Voyage and was blown away by the screen. I rebooted my mission to break the DRM to convert my books over and finally found it in an app. They offered a trial to convert 30% of a book to see how it worked. Then I converted the book to Mobi, plugged in the old Kindle, and it worked!!! An iBook on the Kindle! I purchased that software for full conversions, transferred the books to that Kindle and I cannot tell you how happy I am to regenerate my interest in E-ink.

At the same time I started deciding on 3G or not, Amazon advertised purchasing my Kindle at $33.50 plus an additional $20 towards a new Kindle purchase. Mind made, I had some Amazon points from my credit card, so I went with the 3G. I received it Wednesday and am completely so incredibly impressed with how far E-ink has come. I cannot tell you how happy I am that I was able to now transfer my entire book collection to this device.

I am looking now looking forward to receiving the Limited Edition Brown Leather case tomorrow. While I was at it, wanted to get back in the great Mobileread community, and am looking forward to contributing and some great discussion!