Longtime Lurker/First Time Poster

ElspethB · 10-03-2012, 01:01 PM

Hi everyone! I've been a reader of ebooks since long before there was such a thing. I began reading ebooks on my Palm Pilot. I used Project Gutenberg for public domain books and also created ebooks for myself by scanning and OCR. I was intrigued by the early Sony readers but held off buying an ereader until I finally broke down and bought a Kindle Keyboard. Since then I've bought four more Kindles: a Kindle Keyboard for my mom, a Kindle Touch for my son, a Kindle 4NT, and my newest baby, the Kindle Paperwhite. I also have a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 which is always with me so I can read in the odd moments while waiting for the work shuttle or in line at the bank.

I love this community and have been reading the forums for well over a year, but I never got around to registering. However the interesting discussions in the Amazon Kindle forum right now about the Kindle PW have made me want to jump in and add my 2 cents, or at least participate in the poll about screen satisfaction. (For the record, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who got a lovely screen on my PW.)

Guess that's it for now. Thanks for reading!

Valmore Daniels · 10-03-2012, 03:13 PM

Welcome to the boards

StoryEnthusiast · 10-03-2012, 05:57 PM

Hi ElspethB. Yes, Palm Pilot. It also means a lot to me, being my first PDA (nobody uses this term now). Like you, I also actively use Gutenberg. This past week I also worked on a cumulative tale made available by Google book project - The McCloskey Primer by Margaret Orvis McCloskey. I had to spend hours correcting OCR errors and capturing drawings into files. But, it's also fun. So, we share something in common. Anyway, welcome to this forum. I hope you'll enjoy this community and I look forward to exchanging ideas with you.

ImogenRose · 10-04-2012, 03:05 AM

Welcome to MR!

Imogen

ElspethB · 10-06-2012, 08:49 AM

Thank you everyone! StoryEnthusiast, I checked out The McCloskey Primer on Google, and was impressed by how good it looks. Children's literature was certainly different a hundred years ago, wasn't it? I doubt we'd find old men tumbling off ladders and breaking their necks in any of today's easy readers!

10-03-2012, 01:01 PM	#1
ElspethB Passionate Reader Posts: 274 Karma: 1829152 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Central Jersey, USA Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, Kobo Clara HD, Fire HD 8, Voyage, Oasis 3, PW5	Longtime Lurker/First Time Poster Hi everyone! I've been a reader of ebooks since long before there was such a thing. I began reading ebooks on my Palm Pilot. I used Project Gutenberg for public domain books and also created ebooks for myself by scanning and OCR. I was intrigued by the early Sony readers but held off buying an ereader until I finally broke down and bought a Kindle Keyboard. Since then I've bought four more Kindles: a Kindle Keyboard for my mom, a Kindle Touch for my son, a Kindle 4NT, and my newest baby, the Kindle Paperwhite. I also have a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 which is always with me so I can read in the odd moments while waiting for the work shuttle or in line at the bank. I love this community and have been reading the forums for well over a year, but I never got around to registering. However the interesting discussions in the Amazon Kindle forum right now about the Kindle PW have made me want to jump in and add my 2 cents, or at least participate in the poll about screen satisfaction. (For the record, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who got a lovely screen on my PW.) Guess that's it for now. Thanks for reading!

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Longtime lurker first time poster	blt50203	Introduce Yourself	6	03-30-2010 02:06 PM
Longtime Lurker	Guns4Hire	Introduce Yourself	4	01-07-2010 11:20 AM
Greetings from long time lurker first time poster	tamzilla	Introduce Yourself	5	09-13-2009 01:34 PM
Longtime lurker saying hello!	GearboxValve	Introduce Yourself	1	12-31-2008 05:19 PM

10-03-2012, 03:13 PM	#2
Valmore Daniels Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,592 Karma: 2822668 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle	Welcome to the boards

10-03-2012, 05:57 PM	#3
StoryEnthusiast K. C. Lee Posts: 584 Karma: 3652522 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: New Zealand Device: Android phone	Hi ElspethB. Yes, Palm Pilot. It also means a lot to me, being my first PDA (nobody uses this term now). Like you, I also actively use Gutenberg. This past week I also worked on a cumulative tale made available by Google book project - The McCloskey Primer by Margaret Orvis McCloskey. I had to spend hours correcting OCR errors and capturing drawings into files. But, it's also fun. So, we share something in common. Anyway, welcome to this forum. I hope you'll enjoy this community and I look forward to exchanging ideas with you.

10-04-2012, 03:05 AM	#4
ImogenRose PORTAL Posts: 7,204 Karma: 2884640 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle 1, Kindle 3 (3G), iPhone	Welcome to MR! Imogen

10-06-2012, 08:49 AM	#5
ElspethB Passionate Reader Posts: 274 Karma: 1829152 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Central Jersey, USA Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, Kobo Clara HD, Fire HD 8, Voyage, Oasis 3, PW5	Thank you everyone! StoryEnthusiast, I checked out The McCloskey Primer on Google, and was impressed by how good it looks. Children's literature was certainly different a hundred years ago, wasn't it? I doubt we'd find old men tumbling off ladders and breaking their necks in any of today's easy readers!

Advert

Advert