New guy

thufirhaw · 05-12-2011, 05:07 AM

Hi everyone. I'm a brazillian book junkie (so I apoplogize upfront for any grammar or spelling mistakes I make, English is not my first language) and most of my reading is still in print but around five years ago I fell in love with ebooks. So far I've been reading them on my PC and laptop and it's been good enough but when faced with the choice of reading from the screen or from paper I'll go with the latter most of the time simply because paper books are far more portable than what I've been reading my ebooks on (really, I couldn't care less what books smell like).

Recently I find myself increasingly annoyed at the fact that foreign titles I'd like to read take months to get here if I order them abroad as paper books and as a result of that (and of having landed a job that pays me enough to start considering it) have been thinking seriously about getting an ereader

I've been lurking over the forums for a while now and finally felt compelled to register because I'm finally getting an ebook reader, but turns out I have no idea which one I should get.

So I browsed over the "which one should i buy" secton for a while, got a few ideas but i'm looking for some more personal advice. So if you think I'm a nice guy or you'd just like to be one more person who gets tell me what to do with my money (much like my parents, boss, girlfriend, dog and girlfriend's dog) why don't you show up on the brand new thread I've created just to have people tell how to spend my money?

GeoffC · 05-12-2011, 10:00 AM

Welcome to Mobileread ....

hello, again ....

MickeyC · 05-12-2011, 07:58 PM

Hi thufirhaw and welcome to MobileRead

thufirhaw · 05-12-2011, 09:29 PM

Thank you both, GeoffC and cassidym. And thank you one more time, GeoffC, for the link to the ereader matrix.

neilmarr · 05-13-2011, 07:14 AM

Good to have your company, Thufirhaw. Might be an idea to take a while to study the independent reviews of the various available devices in the 'which one should I buy?' sub forum here. I believe ebook reading is exploding in Brazil, so there must be many Portuguese language ebooks around. Luck and best wishes. Neil

ImogenRose · 05-15-2011, 01:38 AM

Hello and welcome to MR!

Imogen

thufirhaw · 05-20-2011, 04:02 AM

Thanks for the warm welcome, neilmarr and ImogenRose.

Quote:

Originally Posted by neilmarr

Good to have your company, Thufirhaw. Might be an idea to take a while to study the independent reviews of the various available devices in the 'which one should I buy?' sub forum here. I believe ebook reading is exploding in Brazil, so there must be many Portuguese language ebooks around. Luck and best wishes. Neil

I wouldn't say exploding, some large book retailers are now selling both devices and ebooks, though not much of either, as they're both quite expensive around here. Also I read mostly genre stuff, SF and horror particularly, of which there are hardly any brazillian authors nowadays (and translations of foreign works have become quite rare too), so I'm not aware of that many ebooks in portuguese. Anyway I do believe the market for devices is eventually going to grow even more, specially for multipurpose ones, like tablets. Readers should grow too, but not as much.

neilmarr · 05-20-2011, 05:00 AM

Maybe I was being a little over-enthusiastic then, Thufirhaw (certainly there seems to be a growing number of Spanish books out there for the rest of Latin America). No doubt things will improve soon in Brazil. Meanwhile, of course, there's no shortage of SF and horror if you're as comfortable reading in English as you seem to be writing in the language. Best wishes. Neil

05-12-2011, 05:07 AM	#1
thufirhaw Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Location: São Paulo, Brazil Device: none	New guy Hi everyone. I'm a brazillian book junkie (so I apoplogize upfront for any grammar or spelling mistakes I make, English is not my first language) and most of my reading is still in print but around five years ago I fell in love with ebooks. So far I've been reading them on my PC and laptop and it's been good enough but when faced with the choice of reading from the screen or from paper I'll go with the latter most of the time simply because paper books are far more portable than what I've been reading my ebooks on (really, I couldn't care less what books smell like). Recently I find myself increasingly annoyed at the fact that foreign titles I'd like to read take months to get here if I order them abroad as paper books and as a result of that (and of having landed a job that pays me enough to start considering it) have been thinking seriously about getting an ereader I've been lurking over the forums for a while now and finally felt compelled to register because I'm finally getting an ebook reader, but turns out I have no idea which one I should get. So I browsed over the "which one should i buy" secton for a while, got a few ideas but i'm looking for some more personal advice. So if you think I'm a nice guy or you'd just like to be one more person who gets tell me what to do with my money (much like my parents, boss, girlfriend, dog and girlfriend's dog) why don't you show up on the brand new thread I've created just to have people tell how to spend my money?

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05-12-2011, 10:00 AM	#2
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Welcome to Mobileread .... hello, again ....

05-12-2011, 07:58 PM	#3
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	Hi thufirhaw and welcome to MobileRead

05-12-2011, 09:29 PM	#4
thufirhaw Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Location: São Paulo, Brazil Device: none	Thank you both, GeoffC and cassidym. And thank you one more time, GeoffC, for the link to the ereader matrix.

05-13-2011, 07:14 AM	#5
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Good to have your company, Thufirhaw. Might be an idea to take a while to study the independent reviews of the various available devices in the 'which one should I buy?' sub forum here. I believe ebook reading is exploding in Brazil, so there must be many Portuguese language ebooks around. Luck and best wishes. Neil

05-15-2011, 01:38 AM	#6
ImogenRose PORTAL Posts: 7,204 Karma: 2884640 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle 1, Kindle 3 (3G), iPhone	Hello and welcome to MR! Imogen

05-20-2011, 05:00 AM	#8
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Maybe I was being a little over-enthusiastic then, Thufirhaw (certainly there seems to be a growing number of Spanish books out there for the rest of Latin America). No doubt things will improve soon in Brazil. Meanwhile, of course, there's no shortage of SF and horror if you're as comfortable reading in English as you seem to be writing in the language. Best wishes. Neil

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