Is kindle a great thing

[bobmd13]

I have recently being contemplating buying a Kindle E-Book reader.

As a Biblophile with over 2000 books, believe me this is a hard decision.

But I have found a major flaw with the Kindle and all its variants.

If like me you like to have a bath, and read a book with a nice glass of wine or a beer.

Topping off the bath every time it gets cool with more hot water for an hour or two, you know that every now and then your hand slips, and the book gets dunked.

This is why i never read my hardbacks in the bath, but with an e-book reader , you drop it it is fubared (fooked up beyond all recognition).

Unless you are like me, paperbacks are fine, so the loss of a wet book is no great thing,but the loss of your e-book reader is a totally different matter since none of them are waterproof .

Never mind I can buy the Hard back copy of the book on release for less than the e-book version,and I always have that yet when formats change I will have to buy a new version of the book.

That will not happen, vinyl to tape to cd

or better still, Betamax/VHS to DVD and now Bluray.

What is better a book that can last 1500 years or a program that can last to the next installment of windows.

Hang on windows 8 has been announced.

Biblophile

 

[rutger5000]

I have recently being contemplating buying a Kindle E-Book reader.

As a Biblophile with over 2000 books, believe me this is a hard decision.

But I have found a major flaw with the Kindle and all its variants.

If like me you like to have a bath, and read a book with a nice glass of wine or a beer.

Topping off the bath every time it gets cool with more hot water for an hour or two, you know that every now and then your hand slips, and the book gets dunked.

This is why i never read my hardbacks in the bath, but with an e-book reader , you drop it it is fubared (fooked up beyond all recognition).

Unless you are like me, paperbacks are fine, so the loss of a wet book is no great thing,but the loss of your e-book reader is a totally different matter since none of them are waterproof .

Never mind I can buy the Hard back copy of the book on release for less than the e-book version,and I always have that yet when formats change I will have to buy a new version of the book.

That will not happen, vinyl to tape to cd

or better still, Betamax/VHS to DVD and now Bluray.

What is better a book that can last 1500 years or a program that can last to the next installment of windows.

Hang on windows 8 has been announced.

Biblophile

I'm not quiet sure what all of this is about. But it is rather easy to make a thing like a e reader water proof. You can easily get a waterproof bag in which you can put the e-reader (and still use it). I would be carefull with high temperatures though, you don't want the thing to overheat

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I'm not quiet sure what all of this is about. But it is rather easy to make a thing like a e reader water proof. You can easily get a waterproof bag in which you can put the e-reader (and still use it). I would be carefull with high temperatures though, you don't want the thing to overheat

I'd go so far as to argue that the Kindle is superior for reading in the tub simply because one can reasonably waterproof the thing in the first place!

 

[Pearwood]

I like ebooks for things that are out in America but not over here yet. There's no restriction on buying something for kindle from America, no shipping cost either obviously. I'd also like to mention that if you have an iphone or Android phone you can download Kindle for free as an app. Smaller screen but saves you about £100.