How many E-books have you read from your device(s)? - Page 2

HarryT · 06-21-2007, 10:08 AM

There is a connection point for a lanyard on the Reader; perhaps you should thread a string through it and hang it around your neck

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BruceW · 06-21-2007, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

There is a connection point for a lanyard on the Reader; perhaps you should thread a string through it and hang it around your neck

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I would try the string trick but my wife already leads me around by the nose, I mean wedding ring,

and the string might turn into "reins"

delphidb96 · 06-22-2007, 12:08 AM

Bought a Dell Axim x51v about two years ago *just* so I could read ebooks. I've since read over 1,600 on it and as soon as my personal evaluation unit from Bookeen gets here I have about 1,000 in my *to read* directory that I'm going to load on it.

Derek

HarryT · 06-22-2007, 04:41 AM

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Originally Posted by delphidb96

Bought a Dell Axim x51v about two years ago *just* so I could read ebooks. I've since read over 1,600 on it and as soon as my personal evaluation unit from Bookeen gets here I have about 1,000 in my *to read* directory that I'm going to load on it.

Derek

I wonder if the new CyBook will display a hierarchical file system view? The old CyBook doesn't, and the Sony Reader doesn't. If it's a "flat" view, like these other machines are, you're probably not going to want to put 1000 books on it

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Alexander Turcic · 06-22-2007, 06:07 AM

I cannot tell for sure, but I read anything between 26 to 100 e-books on the Reader. Thing is, my girlfriend recently borrowed it, and she hasn't returned it yet. So I am stuck.

Bob Russell · 06-22-2007, 06:55 AM

I still don't know how you guys do it. I love the Reader, and I feel like I use it all the time. Yet I have finished less than 15 books on it so far, as best I can tell.

It is true, however, that I don't have the opportunity to read it for hours on end very often. Mostly it's 10mins at lunch, or 15-30 mins before I go to sleep.

As I've said before, you guys are amazing how you can devour a book a day or even a book a week. Blows my mind, but it's fantastic.

kacir · 06-22-2007, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Bob Russell

Yet I have finished less than 15 books on it so far, as best I can tell.

I have finished only several dozen of books on a Reader - because I only have it for a relatively short time. Yet I have read many hundreds of e-books over many years. I have started with a "bombarded out" 286 notebook with 2MB of RAM, grayscale 640x480 display, without battery and even harddisk. You simply place a book (or a part of the book) on a bootable DOS floppy togtether with a simple reader.

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Originally Posted by Bob Russell

As I've said before, you guys are amazing how you can devour a book a day or even a book a week. Blows my mind, but it's fantastic.

well ... , if you go to sleep 1 hour later and you spend that hour reading ebooks, and if you do it every night for about 10 years, you will also have read many hundred ebooks.
When I was younger I was able to devour at least 5 paper books per week. Every week. Except for holidays, of course. During holidays I had more time for reading ;-)

Bob Russell · 06-22-2007, 07:42 AM

I guess this thread was meant to include all your mobile devices. So I feel a little more accomplished if I consider all e-book reading... probably around 50 in all.

The really great thing is that for years, I really hadn't been reading very much except for technical or "necessary" books which I read all the time, of course. But reading for fun is something that mobile devices have brought back into my life. First with the Palm PDAs, and now also with the Sony Reader.

Alexander Turcic · 06-22-2007, 09:00 AM

If I included all e-books I've ever read, I think it's probably around 200. I wish I had them all in my bookshelf now. Would make a nice library.

yvanleterrible · 06-22-2007, 10:15 AM

It doesn't look that good after 25-30 years. Many of the books I got were printed before they found out about the acid in their paper treatment. Everything is yellow!!?!!

And then there is the pre-Page Maker layouts and graphics. Yuck!

You can't even give 25 year old books away! The only worthwhile ones are those with pictures, coffee table style.

stxopher · 06-22-2007, 05:13 PM

That "10 minute" and "30 minute" time constraint is one reason I can get more read with the reader. No matter what I was reading, pick up the reader and, magically, there's my place in the very same book I was reading! How? How do they do that?

I can't even guess how many paper books were delayed or forgotten due to their being put down and eventually forgotten or misplaced over a long span of time. (Time that often ranged for almost 10 or 15 minutes before my memory failed.)

With the readers it's become easier to actually KEEP reading something since I know it will always be right where I stopped. (Often entailing an "oh yea! That's what I was reading" moment.)

Well, almost always. Recently I've noticed a need for "user profiles" on the reader so that everyone has a different set of bookmarks. If I lose my place in the Cyberaid one more time due to someone reading "Marley and Me", body parts will roll!

Xenophon · 06-23-2007, 02:16 PM

I've had my Sony Reader for 8 months. In that time I've read 2-3 books per week on it. Before that, I had an REB1100 for about 4 years and read many books on it. A simple way of counting is that I've read everything Baen has made available in bits (not counting eARCs and books that are only partial) -- that's 500+. And... I've read a bunch of other stuff in bits too, perhaps another 50+. The number might be larger than 550, but it certainly isn't smaller.

branko · 06-23-2007, 02:26 PM

I've read about 50 books on my Palm Zire. (Counting the pdb files.)

Liviu_5 · 06-23-2007, 09:20 PM

I would estimate about:

> 100 new novels (no previous paper read, the novels themselves may be old) complete, some with multiple rereads
> 50 new novels partial
> 100 paper read first novels, rereads
> 300 short stories

Overall I estimate about 65-70% of my e-reading is on Nokia and 30-35% on Ebk1150; I tend to read simultaneously the same books on both.

melmurray · 08-20-2007, 05:40 AM

It's not just quantity its quality. For me the major pleasure of having a good ebook reader [an Illiad] is finally getting to read all those wonderfully obscure 19th novels that you just can find/ can't afford. We get such a second hand prim little view of what literature was like back then. Now we are getting a chance to really look at what writers, different kinds of writers were up to. The good, the bad and the plain preposterous. Also I'm enjoying reading some fun sf stuff of course. Never got round to Edgar Rice Burroughs before.

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06-21-2007, 10:08 AM	#16
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	There is a connection point for a lanyard on the Reader; perhaps you should thread a string through it and hang it around your neck .

06-22-2007, 12:08 AM	#18
delphidb96 Wizard Posts: 2,999 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Citrus Heights, California Device: TWO Kindle 2s, one each Bookeen Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS-500, Axim X51V	Bought a Dell Axim x51v about two years ago just so I could read ebooks. I've since read over 1,600 on it and as soon as my personal evaluation unit from Bookeen gets here I have about 1,000 in my to read directory that I'm going to load on it. Derek

06-22-2007, 06:07 AM	#20
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	I cannot tell for sure, but I read anything between 26 to 100 e-books on the Reader. Thing is, my girlfriend recently borrowed it, and she hasn't returned it yet. So I am stuck.

06-22-2007, 06:55 AM	#21
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	I still don't know how you guys do it. I love the Reader, and I feel like I use it all the time. Yet I have finished less than 15 books on it so far, as best I can tell. It is true, however, that I don't have the opportunity to read it for hours on end very often. Mostly it's 10mins at lunch, or 15-30 mins before I go to sleep. As I've said before, you guys are amazing how you can devour a book a day or even a book a week. Blows my mind, but it's fantastic.

06-22-2007, 07:42 AM	#23
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	I guess this thread was meant to include all your mobile devices. So I feel a little more accomplished if I consider all e-book reading... probably around 50 in all. The really great thing is that for years, I really hadn't been reading very much except for technical or "necessary" books which I read all the time, of course. But reading for fun is something that mobile devices have brought back into my life. First with the Palm PDAs, and now also with the Sony Reader.

06-22-2007, 09:00 AM	#24
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	If I included all e-books I've ever read, I think it's probably around 200. I wish I had them all in my bookshelf now. Would make a nice library.

06-22-2007, 10:15 AM	#25
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	It doesn't look that good after 25-30 years. Many of the books I got were printed before they found out about the acid in their paper treatment. Everything is yellow!!?!! And then there is the pre-Page Maker layouts and graphics. Yuck! You can't even give 25 year old books away! The only worthwhile ones are those with pictures, coffee table style.

06-22-2007, 05:13 PM	#26
stxopher Nameless Being	That "10 minute" and "30 minute" time constraint is one reason I can get more read with the reader. No matter what I was reading, pick up the reader and, magically, there's my place in the very same book I was reading! How? How do they do that? I can't even guess how many paper books were delayed or forgotten due to their being put down and eventually forgotten or misplaced over a long span of time. (Time that often ranged for almost 10 or 15 minutes before my memory failed.) With the readers it's become easier to actually KEEP reading something since I know it will always be right where I stopped. (Often entailing an "oh yea! That's what I was reading" moment.) Well, almost always. Recently I've noticed a need for "user profiles" on the reader so that everyone has a different set of bookmarks. If I lose my place in the Cyberaid one more time due to someone reading "Marley and Me", body parts will roll!

06-23-2007, 02:16 PM	#27
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	I've had my Sony Reader for 8 months. In that time I've read 2-3 books per week on it. Before that, I had an REB1100 for about 4 years and read many books on it. A simple way of counting is that I've read everything Baen has made available in bits (not counting eARCs and books that are only partial) -- that's 500+. And... I've read a bunch of other stuff in bits too, perhaps another 50+. The number might be larger than 550, but it certainly isn't smaller.

06-23-2007, 02:26 PM	#28
branko Connoisseur Posts: 93 Karma: 549 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Amsterdam Device: Palm Zire	I've read about 50 books on my Palm Zire. (Counting the pdb files.)

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06-23-2007, 09:20 PM	#29
Liviu_5 Books and more books Posts: 917 Karma: 69499 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY, USA Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)	I would estimate about: > 100 new novels (no previous paper read, the novels themselves may be old) complete, some with multiple rereads > 50 new novels partial > 100 paper read first novels, rereads > 300 short stories Overall I estimate about 65-70% of my e-reading is on Nokia and 30-35% on Ebk1150; I tend to read simultaneously the same books on both.

08-20-2007, 05:40 AM	#30
melmurray Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2007	It's not just quantity its quality. For me the major pleasure of having a good ebook reader [an Illiad] is finally getting to read all those wonderfully obscure 19th novels that you just can find/ can't afford. We get such a second hand prim little view of what literature was like back then. Now we are getting a chance to really look at what writers, different kinds of writers were up to. The good, the bad and the plain preposterous. Also I'm enjoying reading some fun sf stuff of course. Never got round to Edgar Rice Burroughs before.