What do you read on your ebook device? - Page 3

6charlong · 05-01-2008, 12:46 PM

I checked "Mostly Fiction (More than 70 percent)." There wasn't a choice for 50%-50%. I think much of the best writing now is the new style of non-fiction. In history, books like 1776 by David McCullough and Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts--this one describes what was happening but without the "guns-and-trumpets" of traditional accounts. Both books are about US history in the period 1775 to about 1828 (the US Revolution and Early Republic). I also enjoy non-fiction science thrillers like The Demon Under the Microscope too. I feel that these non-fiction books are more interesting than the dry styles typical of the past and more meaningful than most fiction.

Devices like the EB1150 that support word and sentence searches and let you write notes in the eBook might help some who want to do research on their eBook reader. Someday those features will probably be ubiquitous.

fugsly · 05-05-2008, 10:25 AM

Mostly fiction for fun. I also read fiction as part of a uni course I'm doing in my spare time but I still have to buy the books for referencing which annoys me no end.

Any of the non-fiction books I buy aren't available as ebooks yet and won't really work until colour is introduced. (My non fiction books are craft books and involve a lot of pictures.) Even then I'd probably still buy the actual books but would check them out as ebooks first to see how useful they are.

GeoffC · 05-05-2008, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yes, i'm looking forward to it. i just have to finish all these other books i'm reading, and return them to the library.

i'm still looking too, but i don't know if we'll ever find them... maybe someone should write to his editors and remind them that he wrote more than Foundation and I, Robot...

ZP : have you seen these ? ( mysteries ain't there though )
http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/author/i...mov-ebooks.htm

badgoodDeb · 05-07-2008, 07:02 PM

I voted 70% fiction. I have a TON of out of copyrite books older books from this site (but I'm only slowly reading them). I buy light fiction -- and I also bought a copy of the NIV Bible, which has some indexing but it best for straight reading, as NatCh mentioned earlier. I enjoy biographies (or biographical fiction) of kings and queens too.

pshrynk · 05-07-2008, 08:42 PM

I read a lot of SF and fantasy. There is a smattering of science geek types of things. Recently, I started reading a lot of David McCullough's stuff. Read "Path Bettween the Seas" While on a cruise to the Panama Canal. Cool stuff. I've been downloading a lot of classics from here, as well. I promise that I look at each and every one of the incessant ads tha pop up whilst posting here, as well.

View Poll Results: What do you read on your ebook device?
Only Fiction (100% fiction)	14	16.67%
Mainly Fiction (more than 90%)	39	46.43%
Mostly Fiction (more than 70%)	23	27.38%
Mainly Non fiction (Not work related) books (more than 90%)	3	3.57%
Mainly Technical/Professional (work related) books	3	3.57%
Mainly Personal documents (work or non work)	0	0%
Others (please specify)	2	2.38%
Voters: 84. You may not vote on this poll

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05-01-2008, 12:46 PM	#31
6charlong friendly lurker Posts: 896 Karma: 2436026 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: US Device: Kindle, nook, Apple and Kobo	I checked "Mostly Fiction (More than 70 percent)." There wasn't a choice for 50%-50%. I think much of the best writing now is the new style of non-fiction. In history, books like 1776 by David McCullough and Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts--this one describes what was happening but without the "guns-and-trumpets" of traditional accounts. Both books are about US history in the period 1775 to about 1828 (the US Revolution and Early Republic). I also enjoy non-fiction science thrillers like The Demon Under the Microscope too. I feel that these non-fiction books are more interesting than the dry styles typical of the past and more meaningful than most fiction. Devices like the EB1150 that support word and sentence searches and let you write notes in the eBook might help some who want to do research on their eBook reader. Someday those features will probably be ubiquitous.

05-05-2008, 10:25 AM	#32
fugsly living dead girl Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Device: sony 505	Mostly fiction for fun. I also read fiction as part of a uni course I'm doing in my spare time but I still have to buy the books for referencing which annoys me no end. Any of the non-fiction books I buy aren't available as ebooks yet and won't really work until colour is introduced. (My non fiction books are craft books and involve a lot of pictures.) Even then I'd probably still buy the actual books but would check them out as ebooks first to see how useful they are.

05-07-2008, 07:02 PM	#34
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,550 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I voted 70% fiction. I have a TON of out of copyrite books older books from this site (but I'm only slowly reading them). I buy light fiction -- and I also bought a copy of the NIV Bible, which has some indexing but it best for straight reading, as NatCh mentioned earlier. I enjoy biographies (or biographical fiction) of kings and queens too.

05-07-2008, 08:42 PM	#35
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	I read a lot of SF and fantasy. There is a smattering of science geek types of things. Recently, I started reading a lot of David McCullough's stuff. Read "Path Bettween the Seas" While on a cruise to the Panama Canal. Cool stuff. I've been downloading a lot of classics from here, as well. I promise that I look at each and every one of the incessant ads tha pop up whilst posting here, as well.

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