Kindle+Smartphone

[patrickt]

I was late coming to cell phones. That might be because I'm not totally but significantly deaf. I did finally get a phone and I text with friends. I was pleasantly surprised to find I can read on my Nexus 5 phone with a Kindle app. I have a Kindle with me 95% of the time but occasionally I am caught in line at the phone company or waiting for a friend in a store and it's handy to pull out my cellphone and read a bit. I would not want to have a smartphone, or a tablet, as my only ereader, though.

I'm wondering how many others have a Kindle+smartphone combo for reading?

[HarryT]

I read on my phone in emergencies, but the screen on my Voyage is so much easier on the eye that there's really no contest.

[pdurrant]

Are you really asking specifically about having a Kindle, or about any E-Ink based ebook reader?

I carry both my Nook and my iPhone 5. I won't read on the iPhone, unless there's no alternative.

[rcentros]

My phone (an "ancient" Droid X2) actually gets more use as a Reader than I thought it would. Since I always have it with me, when I get stuck waiting somewhere, it's nice to be able to "pick up the book where I left off" and read a few chapters. At home I always have my Kindle, so the phone gets very little use for reading in the house.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by rcentros

My phone (an "ancient" Droid X2) actually gets more use as a Reader than I thought it would. Since I always have it with me, when I get stuck waiting somewhere, it's nice to be able to "pick up the book where I left off" and read a few chapters. At home I always have my Kindle, so the phone gets very little use for reading in the house.

It's perhaps easier for people who download all their books from Amazon. I buy a lot of books from other sources like Baen, and sideload them to my Kindle, so I don't generally have them available on my phone. I know I could email them as personal documents to my Amazon account, but I don't do so.

[cvkemp]

I get most of my books from Amazon, but I do have other ebooks, and ebook sources. I add all of my books to calibre and I email them to my Amazon Kindle cloud so I go sync my reading to my Kindle PW2, my Iphone, and my Nexus 7. While I prefer to read on the PW2 there are times that I read on either the Iphone or Nexus.

[booklover6]

While my Fire Phone makes an excellent reader in case of emergencies, I always have an eink reader with me (either the Kindle Voyage or the Kobo Glo HD) and I would only use the phone if for some (catastrophic) reason, I couldn't use the e-ink reader.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I was late coming to cell phones. That might be because I'm not totally but significantly deaf. I did finally get a phone and I text with friends. I was pleasantly surprised to find I can read on my Nexus 5 phone with a Kindle app. I have a Kindle with me 95% of the time but occasionally I am caught in line at the phone company or waiting for a friend in a store and it's handy to pull out my cellphone and read a bit. I would not want to have a smartphone, or a tablet, as my only ereader, though.

I'm wondering how many others have a Kindle+smartphone combo for reading?

I find my Galaxy S5 adequate for reading, we all have down time every so often. But I prefer an ebook reader over all.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Are you really asking specifically about having a Kindle, or about any E-Ink based ebook reader?

I carry both my Nook and my iPhone 5. I won't read on the iPhone, unless there's no alternative.

Since this is in the Kindle forum, the question was for a Kindle. I suppose I could have posted in the "General" forum but I didn't.

[soulfuldog]

I bought a used Sony 350 to have a pocket sized reader to use when out (mainly at work) but while I still like it, for sheer ease of use I now just use my phone. I can use Dropbox to download the book I'm currently reading at home on my Kindle and then read it with Moon Reader. Its fine for short periods, but if I was going to be reading anything more than a few chapters at a time, the eink ereader would be the winner. Probably 99% of my reading is done on my Kindle though.

[susan_cassidy]

I don't have a smartphone, just a really old flipphone. I do have an iPod Touch with the Kindle app on it, but if I don't take my Kindle with me (which I ordinarily do), I have to manually sync my current book, because I have syncing turned off. My husband and I both have Kindles, and often read the same books, so it wouldn't work to have Amazon sync them for us.

[cvkemp]

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

I don't have a smartphone, just a really old flipphone. I do have an iPod Touch with the Kindle app on it, but if I don't take my Kindle with me (which I ordinarily do), I have to manually sync my current book, because I have syncing turned off. My husband and I both have Kindles, and often read the same books, so it wouldn't work to have Amazon sync them for us.

I believe it would work if both of you have an account and have the family plan enabled

[issybird]

I sideload my books (epubs) to my eink readers but I don't bother to put them on phone or tabletty things. My game plan is to have a reader plus a phone and/or tablet with me always, but just in case I have a few books plus an audio book downloaded on all the LCD gadgets. You never know and I don't want to be caught with nothing to read. It won't be what I'm already reading, but that hardly matters if the alternative is nothing at all.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

I don't have a smartphone, just a really old flipphone. I do have an iPod Touch with the Kindle app on it, but if I don't take my Kindle with me (which I ordinarily do), I have to manually sync my current book, because I have syncing turned off. My husband and I both have Kindles, and often read the same books, so it wouldn't work to have Amazon sync them for us.

I have syncing problems sometimes because my Kindles are WiFi-only. But, I often have one entertaining book on the phone for reading in brief moments and a different book on my Kindle.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by HarryT

It's perhaps easier for people who download all their books from Amazon. I buy a lot of books from other sources like Baen, and sideload them to my Kindle, so I don't generally have them available on my phone. I know I could email them as personal documents to my Amazon account, but I don't do so.

That's true. I'm usually reading five or six books at a time on the various eReaders, and (since I buy most of my books from Amazon) there's usually at least one or two of those on the Kindle. It definitely depends on where you buy most of your books.