09-12-2012, 10:28 AM | #1 |
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Reading on 2 devices
For those of you who own a Kindle e-reader and a Kindle Fire (or an iPad for that matter), do you find yourself ever reading on your tablet instead of your e-reader?
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09-12-2012, 10:40 AM | #2 |
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Yeah, I actually have 5 devices I use for reading. It just depends on which one is nearer and has battery.
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09-12-2012, 10:48 AM | #3 |
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We have a “family” of Kindles – one more on the way! – so not so much. But if I forget to bring a Kindle with me (doesn’t happen often), then I will “read” on my iPhone. But I do feel it is too small for regular book/magazine reading, so I try to avoid that. I generally do not read on my iPad. I find the back-lit screen too distracting.
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09-12-2012, 11:37 AM | #4 |
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5 Kindles Jessica! Wow I thought three kindle was a lot, how could you ever make use of five kindles? I can see having a second for redundancy but five.
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09-12-2012, 11:42 AM | #5 | |
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All the time. I prefer my Fire to eInk but that may change with the new Kindle Paperwhite coming out. The problem is the Kindle Fire has a sync issue that is a pain in the patooty. Maybe it's fixed in the new Versions. I also prefer to use Pdocs alot and there is a cover issue that really takes away from my enjoyment of the device. Now the reader I love to use. The contrast on the Fire is just so much nicely and the clarity of the font is amazing! I can only imagine the new Fires how much better it will be. |
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09-12-2012, 11:46 AM | #6 |
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I own two K4s well at any moment I will! I also have a Kindle Fire as you know. Hubby now has the K3 and I will getting a PW later this year. I'm want another Android device. Either a new Fire and hubby will get the old one or I will get a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0.
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09-12-2012, 12:25 PM | #7 |
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Not Kindles haha, I only have two of those, but will be four by the end of the year/next year probably, so not far off! I use a K3, Fire, my Android phone, my iPhone, my MacBook Pro, and then on anything else I use the Cloud Reader.
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09-12-2012, 02:29 PM | #8 |
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I rarely read on my iPad. I far prefer my Kindles.
Once I have my paperwhite, I'll have five Kindles of my own. I rarely use the K2 anymore, but I use the K3, Touch and DX almost daily. |
09-12-2012, 02:39 PM | #9 |
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Soon, I will have 3 devices that I can read on. And having the ability to have all three scattered wherever I place them, to be able to sync what ever I am reading with all devices will be wonderful. As I understand it, there is no need to carry one from one place to the other. Just pick up what ever kindle and resume reading where I left off.
I hope that is right! That would be almost as good as a buttered toast bacon and egg sandwich or a BLt. |
09-12-2012, 03:58 PM | #10 |
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I have the KK3, the Fire, and the K app on my iPhone. I use whichever is close by and has a charge. I love that I can just pick up where I left off, but I do like my Fire the best for reading.
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09-12-2012, 04:10 PM | #11 |
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Me too. Although I got a new K4 today that might just changed that. The contrast is really improved on the new version. The Kindle Fire is my bedtime reader.
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09-12-2012, 04:20 PM | #12 |
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When I was buying my 3rd one in as many months, my boyfriend had a "talk" with me and said my behavior reminded him of an addicts. After convincing ( read... "tricking") him into thinking that I wasn't an addict, he said, "I've been looking to buy you something special, so use my cc when you order it." Of course, I wasn't done and added a Kindle, then another new Sony the next year. That's when I started feeling over indulgent, so I gave away two. Now, I have 3, and can't justify getting a 4th, so I'm squashing the over indulgent feeling of buying a Paperwhite by selling the PRS 700 and the Kindle 2. I figure a Paperwhite really combines the best of those two readers anyway.
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09-12-2012, 04:33 PM | #13 |
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I used to read a lot more on my iPad 3 than I do now. At first I had a K3 and a K4S, so the iPad 3 was what I preferred in low light situations. But the Kindle for iPad app doesn't have the font selections of the Fire's native Kindle app. I really like the touchscreen of the iPad for making selections and highlights, just as I had with the Fire. I didn't like the Fire's carousel though, nor the Android OS and apps, so I sold it and got the iPad 3. But ever since I got my Kindle Touch I read mostly on it even in low light via an attached light. I love the iPad for reading ePubs and for running apps and browsing the internet though. I'm really looking forward to the Paperwhite and not having to attach a clunky add-on light.
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09-17-2012, 06:10 PM | #15 | |
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If there is need for a lot of annotation, handwriting etc. I would in daylight read on e-ink but simultaneously use notebook or Ipad for annotations, search, dictionaries etc. Last edited by markom; 09-17-2012 at 06:21 PM. |
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