new to the world of e-books...

[noseinabook71]

Hello, I just bought a Sony PRS-505 today. I love to read but am running out of space to put my books. I also love gadgets so this thing ties in two of my favorite things in the world, reading and technology.

[acemccloudxx]

I could have written most of what you just said, except that I got the 550 and I had been reading stuff on my computer for years. My wife certainly is starting to appreciate the fact that I haven't been adding to the "clutter" lately.

I discovered in the mid-90's that there is a vibrant amateur fiction community on the internet. Much of it is crap but freed from the limits of the modern publishing industry there is a great deal of interesting and original stuff.

Ace

[MickeyC]

Hi noseinabook71 and welcome to the Forum. I got a 505 in January largely for the same reasons you did and like it a lot. Contrary to what you may hear, I did not get it, in part, to be able to read the occasional chapter at work without anyone seeing what I was up to. That's my story and I' sticking to it.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by noseinabook71

Hello, I just bought a Sony PRS-505 today. I love to read but am running out of space to put my books. I also love gadgets so this thing ties in two of my favorite things in the world, reading and technology.

I'm a book lover and collector, but I decided to go with ebook readers a while back when I bought a PDA. I loved it. Then I bought the GEB 1100 and loved that. Now I have two Sony PRS-500s and love those!!!

Now that I'm in Peru, I only have 5 phsyical paper books with me, one being a hardcover book. However, I literally have thousands of titles with me, since the rest are ebooks.

I understand what you mean about physical limitations. However, being a book collector, I miss my physical collection which remains in a climate-controlled storage area in Arkansas.

By the way, welcome to MobileRead!

Don

[zelda_pinwheel]

heh, i also love reading and gadgets, i'm quite happy to be able to combine the two as well !

Originally Posted by cassidym

Contrary to what you may hear, I did not get it, in part, to be able to read the occasional chapter at work without anyone seeing what I was up to. That's my story and I' sticking to it.

pfff... ok, i beleive you....

i so wish i had had something like this about 15 years ago ; one day, a colleague left a book in the lunch room at work with a note "FREE" so i took it to read. it was one of those books that are intellectually worthless, but you literally cannot stop reading until you get to the end. some kind of pulp action mystery story, i don't even remember a single detail now but at the time i had to know what happened next.

not helping my willpower was the job i was working on at the time, very tedious proofreading a long and boring document and checking against a list.

i thought i was being so sneaky, i put the book on my desk all the way at the back, against the wall, and the file i was supposed to be checking, in front of it... so i could read the book, but (i thought...) it would look like i was working.

almost at the end of the day i came back to my desk and realized that my boss had a direct view of my sneaky book hiding place from his chair. i wondered why he was giving me dirty looks all afternoon...

lucky thing it was a fast read and i finished it before the end of the day (and put it back in the lunch room).

if only i had my eb1150 at the time, i probably would have gotten away with it...

[MickeyC]

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if only i had my eb1150 at the time, i probably would have gotten away with it... [/QUOTE]

I know exactly what you mean. I remember sneaking out of my office to the courtyard to read Red Storm Rising at work back in the 80's. If only I'd had my 505 back then, I could have saved a lot of rainy reading sesions