Would you fairly hold a up to date "Kindle" (see Amazon) or do you approaching have a actual book contained by your paw, page to ?
turn, covers to look at, and the new book smell?
Also, is the download price of $9.99 for any book enough to make you buy a Kindle instead of solid books?
Answers:
Real Books or Audio Books!
Prefer a real book. I haven't touched a Kindle, but I have had my hand on a similar product. My hands are small, and the electronic reader is bulky. It isn't comfortable for me to hold. The screens are also not large satisfactory or customizable enough. My husband is visually impaired and can't see to read print even in the large-print books. He desires a much larger, bold font. The e-book reader that I have touched could not make the letters significant enough or dark enough for him. It also didn't allow him to renovate fonts (some fonts are much easier for him to read than others). And unfortunately, he needs such a large font that an electronic reader would display a exceedingly limited amount of text. He would be constantly scrolling.
Until someone makes a reader that have the adaptations he needs, he's going to stick with audio books. And I'm going to stick near a regular bound book instead of yet another piece of electronic frippery that needs batteries, have a screen that breaks, and is easy to lose or tear up.
I love books in all forms. I don't own a Kindle, but I do have an iPhone and enjoy downloaded books to it. First, I love physical books, but I am always worried about ruining them. Even at the urgings of my lit professor, I simply can not write in books or give emphasis to them. I try to keep my books, especially the ones that are important to me, in the best condition humanly possible. For example, I hold three copies of the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) by CS Lewis. One version is my favorite, because it's an older edition and has a color picture of the ship surrounded by the front. However, I never read that one if I can help it, because I don't want to ruin it. If I had an e-copy of it, I would read that because it's impossible to ruin e-copies by use.
One nice thing around having books on my phone, versus the physical copy, is that I have them everywhere I go. Even if I'm at work I can surreptitiously start reading a book and not a soul will know the difference.
There seems to be a good argument for e-books, but that being said, I still similar to having the physical books. There's a greater feeling of possestion. Reading a book can be just reading a book, but holding the physical copy make it "mine."
I would like having a authentic book better for sure. I don't like reading stories on a screen, for some reason it's different and not pleasing to me.
Plus, I don't know for sure, but I'd guess when the Kindle gets full, you have to delete a few stories. That's a shame if you paid ten bucks for it! You could put a concrete book up on your shelf to save forever or at least re-sell it to get some of your money rear.
First of adjectives, an ebook is a REAL book. It is a mistake based on misconception to only consider books printed in composition as "real" books.
Second, why can't we enjoy both? There are lots of good books out there that are solely published in electronic formats. Those resistant to electronic formats without even giving it a try are short-changing themselves.
Third, for the sake of convenience, sometimes it makes more sense to choose books within electronic format as you can store literally hundreds of them in your reading device and have them readily available at your fingertips where you go. This is particularly useful when you travel. The solely place I don't recommend for anyone to bring a hand-held reading device to is the bathtub or while floating in the pool. Other than that, you can sit in your favorite comfy chair/sofa/chaise longue/bed and read to your heart's content.
There are very soon many choices available for hand-held reading devices, so anyone interested should research and shop around before settling on any specific one. I don't use Kindle nor intend to as they don't support all formats. I am currently looking at the Sony ereader that's coming out subsequent month: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stor…
It allows to change font size, the screen is large ample, and it has a backlight. Only thing I don't like is that it's not within color.
My current hand-held reading device is a Pocket PC, which has a smallish screen, but I've definitely put it into angelic use, as I have a 1 hour commute each way to/from work.
Personally, I relish the best of both worlds: electronic AND print. Source(s): Have been reading ebooks since 2003.
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Also, is the download price of $9.99 for any book enough to make you buy a Kindle instead of solid books?
Answers:
Real Books or Audio Books!
Prefer a real book. I haven't touched a Kindle, but I have had my hand on a similar product. My hands are small, and the electronic reader is bulky. It isn't comfortable for me to hold. The screens are also not large satisfactory or customizable enough. My husband is visually impaired and can't see to read print even in the large-print books. He desires a much larger, bold font. The e-book reader that I have touched could not make the letters significant enough or dark enough for him. It also didn't allow him to renovate fonts (some fonts are much easier for him to read than others). And unfortunately, he needs such a large font that an electronic reader would display a exceedingly limited amount of text. He would be constantly scrolling.
Until someone makes a reader that have the adaptations he needs, he's going to stick with audio books. And I'm going to stick near a regular bound book instead of yet another piece of electronic frippery that needs batteries, have a screen that breaks, and is easy to lose or tear up.
I love books in all forms. I don't own a Kindle, but I do have an iPhone and enjoy downloaded books to it. First, I love physical books, but I am always worried about ruining them. Even at the urgings of my lit professor, I simply can not write in books or give emphasis to them. I try to keep my books, especially the ones that are important to me, in the best condition humanly possible. For example, I hold three copies of the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (part of the Chronicles of Narnia) by CS Lewis. One version is my favorite, because it's an older edition and has a color picture of the ship surrounded by the front. However, I never read that one if I can help it, because I don't want to ruin it. If I had an e-copy of it, I would read that because it's impossible to ruin e-copies by use.
One nice thing around having books on my phone, versus the physical copy, is that I have them everywhere I go. Even if I'm at work I can surreptitiously start reading a book and not a soul will know the difference.
There seems to be a good argument for e-books, but that being said, I still similar to having the physical books. There's a greater feeling of possestion. Reading a book can be just reading a book, but holding the physical copy make it "mine."
I would like having a authentic book better for sure. I don't like reading stories on a screen, for some reason it's different and not pleasing to me.
Plus, I don't know for sure, but I'd guess when the Kindle gets full, you have to delete a few stories. That's a shame if you paid ten bucks for it! You could put a concrete book up on your shelf to save forever or at least re-sell it to get some of your money rear.
First of adjectives, an ebook is a REAL book. It is a mistake based on misconception to only consider books printed in composition as "real" books.
Second, why can't we enjoy both? There are lots of good books out there that are solely published in electronic formats. Those resistant to electronic formats without even giving it a try are short-changing themselves.
Third, for the sake of convenience, sometimes it makes more sense to choose books within electronic format as you can store literally hundreds of them in your reading device and have them readily available at your fingertips where you go. This is particularly useful when you travel. The solely place I don't recommend for anyone to bring a hand-held reading device to is the bathtub or while floating in the pool. Other than that, you can sit in your favorite comfy chair/sofa/chaise longue/bed and read to your heart's content.
There are very soon many choices available for hand-held reading devices, so anyone interested should research and shop around before settling on any specific one. I don't use Kindle nor intend to as they don't support all formats. I am currently looking at the Sony ereader that's coming out subsequent month: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stor…
It allows to change font size, the screen is large ample, and it has a backlight. Only thing I don't like is that it's not within color.
My current hand-held reading device is a Pocket PC, which has a smallish screen, but I've definitely put it into angelic use, as I have a 1 hour commute each way to/from work.
Personally, I relish the best of both worlds: electronic AND print. Source(s): Have been reading ebooks since 2003.
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Kindle vs Books??
Will books eventually fall into the shadows with the typewriters?What are the pros and cons to a Kindle vs a book?Please stay unbiased if you want to get hold of chosen for a best answer. What would happen if all the worlds electrical supplies went out for simply 48/72 hours? Say from a Nuclear Bombing Accident or a meteor shower,...
Rebooting my Kindle second edition didn't work and it's still frozen up.?
There is a discussion here on what to do when the Kindle freezes up. See if it helps: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i¡