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Old 03-16-2010, 10:44 AM   #121
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That's probably true. However, I don't think many (I don't) use the Kindle keyboard to write documents. I just use it to enter a search term, or url, or small annotation/note every now and then.

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Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that the Kindle has a keyboard, but those small buttons aren't the kind of thing for composing long e-mails or writing essays.

On the other hand, I have become quite proficient at one-hand typing on the Kindle.
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:19 AM   #122
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Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that the Kindle has a keyboard, but those small buttons aren't the kind of thing for composing long e-mails or writing essays.

On the other hand, I have become quite proficient at one-hand typing on the Kindle.

must be the right-hand of a friend of ours ....
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:20 AM   #123
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Paper is less at a risk of being stolen too because most people hate reading but they do love their gadgetlust...

I can give a gazillion reasons for preferring each side over the other but it all comes down to finding my reading bubble, and staying in it...
Indeed, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. You won't get far hanging a Kindle on a nail in the outhouse like you can an old fashioned telephone book for instance - the sheets just can't be torn off in the same way. And the ereader doesn't have that satisfying new paper smell that the pages of a freshly opened book do.

But on the other hand, you can't turn your average paperback on and use it like a modest torch when you need to stumble through the house in the middle of the night without turning all the lights on - as I did the other night with my iTouch...

Either way, I agree with it really being about getting in the 'reading bubble' and most methods seem to manage that.

I hope the pain has gone away since the hospital visit. Sounds nasty.
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:27 AM   #124
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Indeed, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. You won't get far hanging a Kindle on a nail in the outhouse like you can an old fashioned telephone book for instance - the sheets just can't be torn off in the same way. And the ereader doesn't have that satisfying new paper smell that the pages of a freshly opened book do.

But on the other hand, you can't turn your average paperback on and use it like a modest torch when you need to stumble through the house in the middle of the night without turning all the lights on - as I did the other night with my iTouch...

Either way, I agree with it really being about getting in the 'reading bubble' and most methods seem to manage that.

I hope the pain has gone away since the hospital visit. Sounds nasty.
Can't do that with eink either!


Triple clean fractures on my right ankle. The foot came off the leg... yuck!
Funny thing is I'm off meds now...
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:38 AM   #125
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Can't do that with eink either!


Triple clean fractures on my right ankle. The foot came off the leg... yuck!
Funny thing is I'm off meds now...
Errr... is that a good thing? I hope you're feeling better now.
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:40 AM   #126
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Errr... is that a good thing? I hope you're feeling better now.
That's what's funny, I don't feel worse than if I had an overtithened shoe...
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Old 03-16-2010, 11:53 AM   #127
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I read a heck of a lot more on my Mac than my Kindle2. I have enough ebooks to last me a lifetime so I very very rarely buy an ebook off Amazon but download plenty of free books from everywhere I can get them. Most of my collection are CDroms or DVD sets that contain thousands of books, magazines, comics that were made to read off a computer, in color. I use my Kindle for simple fiction in MOBI.

I tend to use my Kindle in bed. I don't buy paperbacks anymore or even look for them at flea market. I do still buy those big coffee-table books with lots of pictures because I love them. Can I live without my Kindle, yes. Can I live without my computer, yes, but I would be very unhappy without it.
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Old 03-16-2010, 12:10 PM   #128
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Can't do that with eink either!


Triple clean fractures on my right ankle. The foot came off the leg... yuck!
Funny thing is I'm off meds now...

footloose ?
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Old 03-16-2010, 12:11 PM   #129
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Not fancy free anymore...
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Old 03-16-2010, 02:41 PM   #130
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I read a heck of a lot more on my Mac than my Kindle2. I have enough ebooks to last me a lifetime so I very very rarely buy an ebook off Amazon but download plenty of free books from everywhere I can get them. Most of my collection are CDroms or DVD sets that contain thousands of books, magazines, comics that were made to read off a computer, in color. I use my Kindle for simple fiction in MOBI.

I tend to use my Kindle in bed. I don't buy paperbacks anymore or even look for them at flea market. I do still buy those big coffee-table books with lots of pictures because I love them. Can I live without my Kindle, yes. Can I live without my computer, yes, but I would be very unhappy without it.
I'm just the opposite. I do most of my book-reading on my Kindle, but in bed I read my iMac.

My wife says I'm really strange.
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Old 03-16-2010, 06:01 PM   #131
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I have neither gone back to pbooks nor left pbooks.

After 2.5 years of using my Sony 505, I still love -- actually prefer -- reading on it to reading pbooks. But I haven't left pbooks and gone wholly ebook. I only buy fiction in ebook form; all nonfiction I buy is in pbook. For every fiction book I buy, I probably buy 2 nonfiction books. But that ration of ebook-to-pbook gets skewed even further because there are certain fiction authors, like David Weber and L.E. Modesitt, Jr., who I buy only in pbook as well.

With the exception of authors I like to collect, I would buy more books in ebook form except for the lack of a universal DRM scheme, something that works like the scheme used for DVDs -- every DVD device can play every DVD, and for the inability of publishers to do an acceptable formatting job with nonfiction ebooks.

I enjoy reading on my Sony 505 enough that I wouldn't think of replacing it except that I want a larger screen that I can use to read my daily newspapers. I'd like to switch my print subscriptions to electronic ones sometime this year.
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Old 03-16-2010, 06:06 PM   #132
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For those of us urban apartment-dwellers whose living room storage os shared between books, DVDs, video games etc. it is *much* easier to buy an ebook, strip the DRM and run it over to a backup drive for posterity...
My house is not much larger than a decent size urban apartment (we downsized when the last child left the nest) and face some of the same space problem. Our solution was to stop buying DVDs and to not buy video games and other space-occupying electronic gadgets. Of course, since I rarely watch videos and never play video games, much preferring to read and use my imagination to create the scenes (something that is easy if the author is good), makes such devices unneeded and helps free up space. But then the 2 dogs and the cat, as well as my business equipment and my wife's art studio do cramp the space a bit. But give me books any day over videos and video games.
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They would be able to if it wasn't for those darned region codes...
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That's what's funny, I don't feel worse than if I had an overtithened shoe...

I think the mass quantities have not worn off yet...

that break sounds horrible!

Makes me queasy just thinking about it.
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I'm just the opposite. I do most of my book-reading on my Kindle, but in bed I read my iMac.

My wife says I'm really strange.
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