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How many books do you carry on your reader?
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I have 27 at the moment on my ipod touch, using Stanza. Download of a book from Gutenberg Project via a wireless connection takes a matter of seconds. I do it as part of my home internet connection so it costs me nothing extra to that.
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Do you have an sd card slot?
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No
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If you are fortunate enough to have folders, how do you sort them?
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Stanza automatically puts them in folders by Title, Author, Subject and Latest Reads, and I can move between these folders with the tap of a finger. Within a folder sorting is alphabetical.
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Please post on why you carry the books you do. Or anything else you'd like to comment on.  |
All my ebooks to date are from gutenberg.org I choose books I never read earlier in my reading life and want to catch up on, and books, like WHitman's
Leaves of Grass, that I dip into or search for quoted lines in. Am currently reading
Robinson Crusoe.
I find the touch really easy to read on. Can change the size of type, font, light on dark, dark on light, all of those. Haven't put the battery life to test yet as I haven't taken it far from power points, like travelling overseas (I wish!) yet.
I live a 45 minute train ride from Wellington (NZ's capital city - am looking out my window at sheep on a hillside. In another direction I see the sea.) and when I am in town for appointments etc I tend to walk around, so being able to carry books (and a couple of games, and video lectures, and SimpleDraw etc) on one small device suits me fabulously.
At home I still tend to read books on paper and this is the kind I buy. So far. When I am working less (at nearly 70 I am not working full time) I will join the people who do copy editing etc for gutenberg.org. Go look at their site.
http://www.gutenberg.org