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kookoo
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Colorado Springs
Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Nook, LG4
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I made a post about the book I wrote on nookboards. A member there (nookatz) read about it and liked it a lot, even giving me my first review. They recommended that I join these boards as well. Now I'm spending way too much time reading through the posts, lol.
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#137 |
Sparks fly off my pages!
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Karma: 250002
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Device: Kindle
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Since I am an author I ran a Google search for eBook, book, and eReader related forums. I need to network and be a part of a reading related community. I found you guys!
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#138 |
Enthusiast
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Karma: 574784
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Tenneessee
Device: Nook Simple Touch Glowlight
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I found by poking around different ereader reviews trying to figure out how best to use whatever is waiting under the tree for me.
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Media Bloke
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Karma: 113956855
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NSW - Australia
Device: iOS
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Well my story is a bit different. I worked in a print shop in prepress and disliked the management. I quit. While searching the Positions Vacant ads I noticed a job for an eBook Maker. I applied, the interview was the next day. Where on Earth was I going to learn how to make eBooks in one night?
I got the job. Still here. Still there. |
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Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah!
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Karma: 8255450
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox
Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!
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Media Bloke
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NSW - Australia
Device: iOS
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There really is a great reward being able to help people out who are at a loss as to what to do next. When you read someone's cry for help and you know the answer . . . how cool is that? Then, you find yourself in the same position again and an MR member throws you a lifeline. |
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#142 |
Booklegger
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Karma: 7999816
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch
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#143 |
Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah!
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Karma: 8255450
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox
Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!
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#144 |
Enthusiast
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Karma: 20
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: East Coast of America
Device: Ipaq 2200, Pocketbook IQ 701, Sony PRS350
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I think it was the matrix/wiki or a thread here and there, I had so many searches/links up I couldn't pin down how exactly I ended up here.
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#145 |
Enthusiast
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Karma: 4502
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Pocatello, Idaho
Device: Sony PRS350, Kindle Wi-Fi.
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I found my PRS350 because I was looking for an E-reader, and Initially I was torn between the PRS300 and the Kindle 3. But I was looking for info on which one was better so I went looking for an e-book forum and MobileRead was the first place I found.
So I asked which E-reader was better, and was told that either was a good choice. So I bought me a Kindle and then unknown to me a family member had bought me a PRS350 as a belated Christmas gift. And now I have gifted my Kindle someone in my household, and am carrying on in a passionate affair with my PRS350. |
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#146 |
Junior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Device: nook color
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I found this site by doing a google search for "rooted nook color". This was before I actually had the nook and was doing research because I knew I wanted to try to access more features than what the stock system offered.
"But there's a similar mystery surrounding our discovery of cool gadgets. How do we find out about them?" My gadget seeking started after I got my first smartphone. I had a tracfone for about a year and eventually went to a contract phone/plan. Smartphones were on my radar, so after I got the first one--tmobile wing--the apps on there opened up a whole new techie world. I can't remember when I got broadband, but that is another feature that opened up the power of the internet for me. Since then I've spent a small fortune on smartphones, computers and lastly ereaders. I have smartphones that are just collecting dust so I wanted to be smarter with my ereader purchase. My first was a pandigital that went to my mom, but wasn't powerful enough for me. I narrowed my selection to the nook color or galaxy tab. The Xoom interest me, but its too big and the suspected price of $800 is over my budget. Plus it wasn't on the market yet. Notion Ink was another product I was looking at, but its not readily on the market either. I LOVE technology, so I don't think I'll ever stop buying stuff...as long as I have a job anyway. |
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affordable chipmunk
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Karma: 9863855
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Brazil
Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite
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I googled for something like mobile reading or mobile literature and hit this link. I fell immediately in love for this broad community of actual thoughtful readers and gadget lovers...
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#148 |
Mrawr?
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Karma: 15039064
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: kindle 3 wifi
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from a friend on another board. she mentioned mobileread a coupla times but whenever i came over it just seemed so... huge
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#149 |
Bibliophile
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Karma: 695816
Join Date: Jan 2011
Device: Nook Simple Touch, Pandigital Novel, PC
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I first heard about e-readers in 2000 or 2001, in an adventure game forum called Rivenguild (long gone now). The adventure games Cyan made (Myst, Riven) used these 'linking books' which each had a reactive panel that you 'touched' to go to different places in the game. A fellow fan thought we might be intrigued by interactive readers and passed along a link to Sony's press release about the upcoming e-ink technology they were perfecting. I've wanted an e-reader that long!
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#150 |
Groupie
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Karma: 13510
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Canada
Device: Kindle 3 Wi-Fi
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I found the MobileRead forum by doing some Google searches on the Kindle 3's features. It's been invaluable. I'm very grateful to this forum and this community.
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