We are a world wide forum.
This means we have active members literally from all over the world, who together own every brand and model of e-book reader, both current and retired.
While many of us are fanatically loyal to our chosen makers, there is no agenda here for any particular reader.
Newbies who come here and ask questions will get answers based hands on experience, not 'the company line'. They will gain much more knowledge than is found in the user guides. By posting and asking questions, they will learn tricks and work-arounds. Reading our Wiki and especially the infamous ebook reader matrix allows comparisons of all ebook readers available, and is an invaluable source of info.
We won't tell you
which device to buy, (altho some of us will definitely show our preference) but we'll ask information that will help us suggest an appropriate choice.
Its always hard to establish a relationship with a new group, but sticking around, reading different threads, and posting regularly has huge paybacks.
Woe to you makers of ebook reader devices who expect blind acceptance of
any new product .
We will lavishly praise the good, and mercilessly pick apart the bad. We will give you logical reasons why we feel as we do.
Thanks to the untiring efforts of our volunteers, we have over 11,000 books here, free for the downloading. All carefully, beautifully formatted, and ready for your device.
We have our own independent authors here, willing to share their work, and our own writers corner. MobileRead encourages anyone who loves to write, in any form, to participate.
MobileRead strives to stay on the legal side, and will not allow flame wars, or personal attacks, or spam. Our mods are very quick to 'tamp the flames', and delete unwanted ads.
It is a privately owned community, and we are all here to help one another, and to spread the word and try to show people why these devices are so important in todays world.
Like any world wide community, we have our differences. Personalities/opinions clash, but its a credit to our members that rarely do the mods need to step in. Mostly we can recognize the other persons point of view, even if we don' agree with it, and we try to stay civil.
In the Lounge, we get silly, make friends, create new worlds and words. Its a respite from the seriousness of our real lives.
Long live MobileRead!!
