What was your first e-reading device? - Page 6

beppe · 08-04-2010, 03:05 AM

I started to put administrative things on the first of my Treos long time ago (I think the name was not Treo even but Palm something, with the shape of the Treo though). Stuff that was not very urgent and that required concentration too valuable in the office to be wasted on that red tape nonsense. Read those on the train. BTW the small screen helps toward reading most of the words. I never became familiar with the automatic flow. I have excellent eyesight. No glasses yet.

Then I discovered ebooks with ereader.com and stayed with them until I got my Sony 600 this year. My horizon enlarged a bit (with the bigger screen) and having to get books elsewhere. MR was the major change. It put Calibre in my daily routine. A posteriori I can say that MR is much more fundamental to me than my new reader.

Guiltyr1 · 08-04-2010, 10:39 AM

My current one - Pandigital Novel :-) and I love it..

sakura-panda · 08-04-2010, 03:02 PM

I discovered ebooks when I bought a Palm Pilot (the original) but I don't think I ever downloaded any onto it. Overall the Pilot did not do what I had hoped and I eventually upgraded to a Compaq iPaq.

The iPaq came with an ebook pre-installed and I remember reading a little bit of it, but I didn't really enjoy it.

It wasn't until much much later (over 10 years) before I tried reading books on an electronic device again.

emonti8384 · 08-04-2010, 04:49 PM

Got the idea from my Palm Centro when I first got it and there was a "reader" app. I couldn't figure out how to download it so I started looking at readers.

Sony PRS-505 March 2009
Sony PRS-600 October 2009

I've been thinking about a Kindle so I can read the books I can't get for my Sony but at the same time I don't want to get another 6" reader. I've been thinking the bigger screen wouldn't hold an attraction for me...but it does, lol. When I brought it up to the boyfriend he was horrified and said I didn't need another reader. I'm thinking her wrong. Afterall, he plays games on his PS2, PS#, XBOX360, and the computer. Isn't that kinda the same thing? Huh?! HUH?!?!?

catsittingstill · 08-04-2010, 06:49 PM

My first e-book I read on a laptop screen. I was having back problems at the time and couldn't sit very long, and wound up reading it lying on my side on the floor with the laptop likewise propped on its corresponding side. I probably wouldn't have finished the book except it was a new one by one of my favorite authors and I had to see how it came out.

Ebooks didn't seem very convenient or comfortable then. Queue a year or so of hiatus.

A friend at a science fiction convention was mentioning e-books and I told her about the laptop. She had just upgraded her palm pilot thingie about six months before and gave me her old one so I could experiment a bit more with the concept. E-books on the palm pilot thingie were somewhat better but I had format troubles--the html kept showing up in the text, which was distracting. I read a few (free) e-books but it wasn't something I did regularly.

Then I got a Palm T|X of my own for the whole calendar and contacts in your pocket thing. Presently I discovered that with Baen Free Library I could (with some amazing squirming through ill-placed and poorly designed hoops) get actual books that I cared about on it. I discovered Mobile Read. I discovered Manybooks.net. I discovered that it is uncomfortable to have to get out of bed in the middle of the night and huddle in your bathrobe over your reader so you can plug it into the wall so you can finish _Pride And Prejudice_ because the battery is absolutely positively out of charge.

And then I discovered e-Ink and specifically the Kindle. (I later learned that Sony had it too, but I'm a Mac user and this was back when Sonys only borderline worked with Macs.) I had heard about a predecessor to e-Ink twenty years before and now finally--FINALLY it was actually available on the market. I wanted one.

Six months later between some generous Christmas checks and the tax return, I could afford one, and bought it. Five weeks before the first price drop. But you know, I was happy to have had it for those five weeks.

About 8 months later I got a Kindle 2 from MobileRead's giveaway. After exhaustive testing and comparison of the two readers I elected to pass the Kindle 1 to my husband and kept the Kindle 2.

Now I'm eyeing the Kindle 3. :-)

Juliette · 08-05-2010, 04:14 AM

Cybook Gen3. Quickly followed by the PRS-505, just in time before I had a fender-bender and my neck was not in order for a little while- muscles in the neck command the eye region too. So I was quite happy to be able to tinker my pages

Sweetpea · 08-05-2010, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by catsittingstill

Then I got a Palm T|X of my own for the whole calendar and contacts in your pocket thing. Presently I discovered that with Baen Free Library I could (with some amazing squirming through ill-placed and poorly designed hoops) get actual books that I cared about on it. I discovered Mobile Read. I discovered Manybooks.net. I discovered that it is uncomfortable to have to get out of bed in the middle of the night and huddle in your bathrobe over your reader so you can plug it into the wall so you can finish _Pride And Prejudice_ because the battery is absolutely positively out of charge.

You know, that's where good planning comes in handy! When we designed our bed (it's completely hand-made by that very handy-with-wood husband of mine, though I painted it [with a little help from my mother, I admit]), we recognized this problem. So, both sides of the bed have 4 power outlets. Three on the floor (you know, for an alarm clock and other things you'll want to keep plugged; nothing there yet but the alarm, but still...) and one on the bed itself, right above the nightstand. And those I can use for my charger when I find out I'm empty in the middle of the night and still want to read without having to use the bed light...

(ignore the MotH in the picture...)

thinkpad · 08-05-2010, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

You know, that's where good planning comes in handy! When we designed our bed (it's completely hand-made by that very handy-with-wood husband of mine, though I painted it [with a little help from my mother, I admit]), we recognized this problem. So, both sides of the bed have 4 power outlets. Three on the floor (you know, for an alarm clock and other things you'll want to keep plugged; nothing there yet but the alarm, but still...) and one on the bed itself, right above the nightstand. And those I can use for my charger when I find out I'm empty in the middle of the night and still want to read without having to use the bed light.

Nice bedroom. Must be comfy when it's raining and you can hear it tapping on your windows, and all you want to do is crawl under a blanket and read a good book.

Juliette · 08-05-2010, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

You know, that's where good planning comes in handy! When we designed our bed (it's completely hand-made by that very handy-with-wood husband of mine, though I painted it [with a little help from my mother, I admit]), we recognized this problem. So, both sides of the bed have 4 power outlets. Three on the floor (you know, for an alarm clock and other things you'll want to keep plugged; nothing there yet but the alarm, but still...) and one on the bed itself, right above the nightstand. And those I can use for my charger when I find out I'm empty in the middle of the night and still want to read without having to use the bed light...

(ignore the MotH in the picture...)

Gorgeous bedroom! And hat off to you and your husband

astra · 08-05-2010, 06:47 AM

Heh. Tastes differ ...
Less than a year ago, when we were looking for a new house, we forgo a house with a bedroom like that. I would be unable to sleep without a solid ceiling above my head.

thinkpadx

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Must be comfy when it's raining and you can hear it tapping on your windows, and all you want to do is crawl under a blanket and read a good book.

Love it. My favourite place to read a book in conservatory when it is raining (and warm enough).

Ea · 08-05-2010, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by thinkpadx

Nice bedroom. Must be comfy when it's raining and you can hear it tapping on your windows, and all you want to do is crawl under a blanket and read a good book.

The noise would drive me crazy

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Originally Posted by astra

Heh. Tastes differ ...
Less than a year ago, when we were looking for a new house, we forgo a house with a bedroom like that. I would be unable to sleep without a solid ceiling above my head.

Same here. I dream of having an alcove bed sometime. Though my new bedroom is so small it almost feel like one anyway.

Sweetpea · 08-05-2010, 07:53 AM

But it is solid! Very solid, in fact. And you don't hear it as noise, it's really soothing, actually.

Juliette · 08-05-2010, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

But it is solid! Very solid, in fact. And you don't hear it as noise, it's really soothing, actually.

Under-the-roof bedrooms are looove!

GeoffC · 08-05-2010, 08:13 AM

lay-in-bed star-gazing !

Sweetpea · 08-05-2010, 08:17 AM

Remind me to take a picture of our blinds

But yes, in winter, I doubt I'll close those blinds but look at the real stars instead.

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08-04-2010, 03:05 AM	#76
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	I started to put administrative things on the first of my Treos long time ago (I think the name was not Treo even but Palm something, with the shape of the Treo though). Stuff that was not very urgent and that required concentration too valuable in the office to be wasted on that red tape nonsense. Read those on the train. BTW the small screen helps toward reading most of the words. I never became familiar with the automatic flow. I have excellent eyesight. No glasses yet. Then I discovered ebooks with ereader.com and stayed with them until I got my Sony 600 this year. My horizon enlarged a bit (with the bigger screen) and having to get books elsewhere. MR was the major change. It put Calibre in my daily routine. A posteriori I can say that MR is much more fundamental to me than my new reader.

08-04-2010, 10:39 AM	#77
Guiltyr1 Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 76 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Padigital Novel	My current one - Pandigital Novel :-) and I love it..

08-04-2010, 03:02 PM	#78
sakura-panda Guru Posts: 935 Karma: 9558874 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southeast Michigan, USA Device: Kindle Oasis; 11" iPad Pro (Books, Kindle, Kobo, MapleRead SE)	I discovered ebooks when I bought a Palm Pilot (the original) but I don't think I ever downloaded any onto it. Overall the Pilot did not do what I had hoped and I eventually upgraded to a Compaq iPaq. The iPaq came with an ebook pre-installed and I remember reading a little bit of it, but I didn't really enjoy it. It wasn't until much much later (over 10 years) before I tried reading books on an electronic device again.

08-04-2010, 04:49 PM	#79
emonti8384 browneyedgurl Posts: 523 Karma: 356470 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Warren, OH Device: PRS-505/950x2, PRS-600 silver, Galaxy III purple, T2 black	Got the idea from my Palm Centro when I first got it and there was a "reader" app. I couldn't figure out how to download it so I started looking at readers. Sony PRS-505 March 2009 Sony PRS-600 October 2009 I've been thinking about a Kindle so I can read the books I can't get for my Sony but at the same time I don't want to get another 6" reader. I've been thinking the bigger screen wouldn't hold an attraction for me...but it does, lol. When I brought it up to the boyfriend he was horrified and said I didn't need another reader. I'm thinking her wrong. Afterall, he plays games on his PS2, PS#, XBOX360, and the computer. Isn't that kinda the same thing? Huh?! HUH?!?!?

08-04-2010, 06:49 PM	#80
catsittingstill Guru Posts: 643 Karma: 551634 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle 1.0.8, iPod Touch, Kindle Keyboard	My first e-book I read on a laptop screen. I was having back problems at the time and couldn't sit very long, and wound up reading it lying on my side on the floor with the laptop likewise propped on its corresponding side. I probably wouldn't have finished the book except it was a new one by one of my favorite authors and I had to see how it came out. Ebooks didn't seem very convenient or comfortable then. Queue a year or so of hiatus. A friend at a science fiction convention was mentioning e-books and I told her about the laptop. She had just upgraded her palm pilot thingie about six months before and gave me her old one so I could experiment a bit more with the concept. E-books on the palm pilot thingie were somewhat better but I had format troubles--the html kept showing up in the text, which was distracting. I read a few (free) e-books but it wasn't something I did regularly. Then I got a Palm T\|X of my own for the whole calendar and contacts in your pocket thing. Presently I discovered that with Baen Free Library I could (with some amazing squirming through ill-placed and poorly designed hoops) get actual books that I cared about on it. I discovered Mobile Read. I discovered Manybooks.net. I discovered that it is uncomfortable to have to get out of bed in the middle of the night and huddle in your bathrobe over your reader so you can plug it into the wall so you can finish _Pride And Prejudice_ because the battery is absolutely positively out of charge. And then I discovered e-Ink and specifically the Kindle. (I later learned that Sony had it too, but I'm a Mac user and this was back when Sonys only borderline worked with Macs.) I had heard about a predecessor to e-Ink twenty years before and now finally--FINALLY it was actually available on the market. I wanted one. Six months later between some generous Christmas checks and the tax return, I could afford one, and bought it. Five weeks before the first price drop. But you know, I was happy to have had it for those five weeks. About 8 months later I got a Kindle 2 from MobileRead's giveaway. After exhaustive testing and comparison of the two readers I elected to pass the Kindle 1 to my husband and kept the Kindle 2. Now I'm eyeing the Kindle 3. :-)

08-05-2010, 04:14 AM	#81
Juliette I eat books Posts: 601 Karma: 5124 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Milan, Italy Device: Gen3 PRS-505 PRS-600 PB360 PB302 K2 Opus BebookMini OnyxBoox K3 KDXG	Cybook Gen3. Quickly followed by the PRS-505, just in time before I had a fender-bender and my neck was not in order for a little while- muscles in the neck command the eye region too. So I was quite happy to be able to tinker my pages

08-05-2010, 07:53 AM	#87
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	But it is solid! Very solid, in fact. And you don't hear it as noise, it's really soothing, actually.

08-05-2010, 08:13 AM	#89
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	lay-in-bed star-gazing !

08-05-2010, 08:17 AM	#90
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	Remind me to take a picture of our blinds But yes, in winter, I doubt I'll close those blinds but look at the real stars instead.

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