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I bought one many months ago and love it. There is a free program calibre - E-book management that makes managing your books similar to an ipod. You can convert the books to different formats and is very intuitive. Give it a little time and you'll enjoy it, David
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I bought a Nook and love it.
It is backlit so that I can read at night without disturbing the wife. Use it mostly in wintertime. I use the public library on line, so never have to pay for anything. Have read about ten books since Dec using it. It also connects to wireless so that I can check my email one last time before shutting off for the night. |
My daughter got the Nook Tablet for Christmas and absolutely loves it. I was going to root it but really didn't see a need to. Books, music, movies, email, web browsing. It does it all. On the road trips I tether it to my phone.
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have had my fire about a month now and have only paid for one book so far. the other dozen or so i have downloaded were free. they have daily free books. maybe the one you are looking for is the exception but most are cheaper through the kindle link. but that is between the individual author/publisher/amazon to set the price levels. never seen an ad on any of the books i am buying. are you referring to the suggestions on the Amazon site? they do that for all purchases not just the book section. |
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You bought the cheapest add driven Kindle. Go spend 200 bucks and get a Fire.
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Got the wife the Fire for xmas. She and my daughter are on it constantly.
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I could see reading a novel or newspaper on a Kindle but buying college textbooks?
I wrote in my textbooks. and drew graphs. and highlighted. And still own many of them for my own reference. When you pay $1000 for a metallurgical processes & materials properties book... you use it. If there were links in the indexes (maybe there are?) I could see this being cool. Clicking on words in the index taking you to the linked pages automatically.... |
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I think the theory is that you pay much, much less for textbooks that aren't hard copy. You can highlight and add notes to books in Nooks and Kindles. I don't think there's a facility for drawing a picture though. |
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There are no ads when reading a book, playing games or any other things you do on the Kindle. |
I like my kindle but, unlike a paperback, ya can't throw it at the cat that's scratching on the furniture.
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but it might get expensive pretty fast. |
Here is a question-
what happens if you download a bunch of books on it... and then you lose it/it gets stolen/etc? Is there a backup on your PC? |
Everything you buy on Kindle is in the "cloud drive" you can grab it wirelessly from any of your devices. Be it a kindle, or a laptop, phone, tablet with the kindle app. If you have the wireless turned on on the kindle, you won't even lose your place....
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Getting back to the original post...
How can they charge MORE for a Kindle version than a PAPERBACK!? Because they have seen PORSCHE charge more for a Cayman than a Boxster and get away with it! This is usury! I have one but may only use it for cheap or free books. |
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