Who killed the bookstore?

[Love.Forever.]

I remember once trying to read Weathering Heights online, but my eyes kept hurting me or they'd become blurry, so I had to abandon that and use the paper version. Right now I'm thinking about getting either an Ipad or a tablet, but I'm still undecided about it. At least with this forum I can make an informed decision before I delve into anything financially too.

Originally Posted by Poppaea

Thought so, too. That was BEFORE I got my first reader. Once I read on it, it took me about five minutes to suck me into ereading forever. I am reading more now than ever before. And I love the reading experience more than ever before.
Never before have I spent money better!

I am a member of a board for classic literature and known there for my fierce love of books bound in a specific manner, with special paper, by special publishers etc. They were short of peeing their pants when I was converted to ereading that fast and forcefull

Since last August I haven't looked back, read a pbook or missed the reading experience of pbooks. They are beautiful and I like to look at them now. I don't think I'll ever go back.

Just try it. There is nothing to loose if you don't like it, but a lot to gain if you do!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Love.Forever.

I wouldn't waste my time spying on anyone, it's too much effort and I have no reason to partake in that.
I'm just here out of curiosity and the curiosity to eventually try out electronic books... or is something wrong with that?

No, but when you come in saying in so many words that ebooks suck and you could never read that way....it does seem a bit strange that you'd even be here.

[SolRaven]

Originally Posted by Love.Forever.

I remember once trying to read Weathering Heights online, but my eyes kept hurting me or they'd become blurry, so I had to abandon that and use the paper version. Right now I'm thinking about getting either an Ipad or a tablet, but I'm still undecided about it. At least with this forum I can make an informed decision before I delve into anything financially too.

If you are curious about ereaders (and not spying on a lover ) and aren't sure that you want to make the investment in a new reader, it might be a good idea to check out an older generation reader that can be bought off of ebay for a song. If you're thinking eink, getting an older generation, trying it out for a month or 2 and then selling it back onto ebay for what you paid for it shouldn't be a problem for a Sony 505, 300 or Kindle 2. If you want a tablet any iPads will resell well.

[kennyc]

And Amazon has a very reasonable return policy on Kindles.

[Love.Forever.]

Well I never said they suck. I'm interested in using electronic format but I'm still undecided.

Originally Posted by kennyc

No, but when you come in saying in so many words that ebooks suck and you could never read that way....it does seem a bit strange that you'd even be here.

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by Quexos

Curiosity, obviously and what's wrong with that ?
Your question is as relevant as asking a passionate reader of newspapers what the heck he/she is doing checking out news online ...
Another answer would be: expanding your horizons and again, what's wrong with that ?

I was asking out of curiosity, what's wrong with that? I wasn't rude, or condescending, I merely asked.

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by SolRaven

Are you spying on a member here? A husband? A lover?

She does seem to have a connection with her defender:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/member.php?u=101599

[Love.Forever.]

Wow someone clearly has time on their hands to research and try find out how come someone came to my defense. Just because someone defends me, doesn't mean we have a connection.

Originally Posted by ardeegee

She does seem to have a connection with her defender:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/member.php?u=101599

[SolRaven]

Originally Posted by Love.Forever.

Wow someone clearly has time on their hands to research and try find out how come someone came to my defense. Just because someone defends me, doesn't mean we have a connection.

That's what I always do on my Sundays. It beats doing laundry!

[Love.Forever.]

Originally Posted by SolRaven

That's what I always do on my Sundays. It beats doing laundry!

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by Love.Forever.

Wow someone clearly has time on their hands to research and try find out how come someone came to my defense. Just because someone defends me, doesn't mean we have a connection.

Not much "research" involved-- before I asked my question a day or two ago, I clicked on your user name, chose "view public profile" to see if there was any data entered, saw that Quexos was listed as your friend, clicked on his profile, saw the messages back and forth. Took a few seconds. (I looked in the first place because I was wondering if you might be a new name for a recurring sockpuppet, but decided that you weren't.)

[GeoffC]

Personally, i don't see myself abandoning paper books for a very long time, it just seems to be easier to read when it's right in my hands, rather than in electronic format. If i did venture into e-format territory, it would definitely take some getting used to.

I certainly meant nothing untoward in my asking the question as to why love.forever. came here, other than curiosity after reading your introduction.

If I offended you, or anyone else, by my asking, then I apologise most profusely..

[Quexos]

On second thought I shouldn't have defended love.forever. She never defended me or even thanked me for it and it only brought confusion to the thread. It's everyone for themselves in this world.
As far as I'm concerned you don't need to apologize either GeoffC, and You were correct and relevant to ask what is love.forever doing here, after all she does not have an e-reader and this is an e-reader loving community. I wish the moderators would de-activate her account, she has no business around here.

Originally Posted by GeoffC

I certainly meant nothing untoward in my asking the question as to why love.forever. came here, other than curiosity after reading your introduction.

If I offended you, or anyone else, by my asking, then I apologise most profusely..

[jbcohen]

My mother bought an ipad some time ago and she tells me the troubble with it is that its too big and akward for reading novels for any length of time on them, due to the physical size of the unit. I have heard a lot of people liking the tablets for reading electronic books and they seem to me to be sitting on the fence about using them in the future. I have also spoken to a lot of owners of different brands electronic readers and I own one myself as well, a Aluratek Libra Pro but I primarily use my company provided Blackberry Storm.

I do have some advice that I ahve put together after talking to the owners of many different products and I owuld advise you to buy a tablet PC if you can see yourself using the tablet for multiple functions outside reading electronic books. Owners of tablets that I have spoken to tell me that the tablet is good for electronic reading but where it really shines is the ability to read a book and work with other software on one device. Owners of tablets have told me if all you want to do is read books these things are a waste of dollars.

I had one pal that owned a Craig tablet and an ipad both and he tells me that he likes the Criag quite a bit better than the ipad. Sicne the ipad cost seven times what the craig did he expected seven times the value from the ipad and did not feel it really delivered seven times the value that the craig did. "Two times" he said "but not seven times."

As far as the dedicated readers go it has been my premise for sometime that there is no one best reader for everyone and it really depends on what is most important to you. I bought the Libra Pro becuase at the time it was the only reader available that would sell for $100 or below, I simply did not see readers as worth more than that.

Kobos are great if you want simplicity of operation, they have one button that does all of everything on the reader. And they are the cheapest available these days besides the ones on the smart phones.

I use my office's blackberry storm these days becuase I haev a tendency to loose things and since I can combine all of the functions into one device there is less to loose and less weight to carry around.

A Kindle is great for those that can see them having a huge electronic book library, its got a search function, or like the ability to put your name in the device and customize it to your liking.

A Sony PRS are great if you want the on board dictionaries available at the tap of the screen.

Can yout see yourself looking at diagrams and illustrations in books, the bookeen is really great for that job.

[Love.Forever.]

I was glad that you defended me and you know that I do thank you for it.

Even though it is an e-reader community, not everyone has an e-reader, there are those that are interested in getting one, but aren't sure exactly which one to get. I'm thinking about getting one, but financially I need to make sure I pick the right one, that's why I've been floating around here... Being curious isn't a crime last time I checked

Originally Posted by Quexos

On second thought I shouldn't have defended love.forever. She never defended me or even thanked me for it and it only brought confusion to the thread. It's everyone for themselves in this world.
As far as I'm concerned you don't need to apologize either GeoffC, and You were correct and relevant to ask what is love.forever doing here, after all she does not have an e-reader and this is an e-reader loving community. I wish the moderators would de-activate her account, she has no business around here.