I got a Kindle

cookingirl

cookingirl

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Hey, not to take the spotlight away from Peeps and her new NOOK---which is a more than well deserved gift---I broke down 10 days ago and ordered a kindle, along with a lighted cover. I am still getting used to it. I am on my second book. I do not think I will ever discontinue reading books, I have so many in my bookcase to read, but it is easier to carry and does work well with all types of light, with a non glaring screen. Before this, I did download the kindle app to my iTouch and read a very thick book on there. The screen was small and it did glare. Currently, on the kindle, I am 1/3 through a 1,000 page book and it is much less cumbersome than lugging the book. I do miss thumbing through pages and checking up on things..
Just my thoughts on it, in case anyone was thinking of buying one:blob_blue:
Cyn
 
Congrats on your new Kindle!!!!!

I'm using Kindle on my iPhone (much like the iTouch). I have only read freebies but am considering actually paying for an ebook and see if I like reading one of a series of novels I've recently started. I still prefer books but I don't always carry them with me ...so the iPhone kindle does have it's advantages.
How do you compare your Kindle to the iTouch? (for ease of use, reading in different lights etc....)
 
In comparison:
The iTouch screen is much smaller; I did find that the screen did have a glare in fairly bright light, bright sunlight made it almost impossible to read- did have to angle it and hold it much differently in order to read same thing in the house when I am under a light; the iTouch is much smaller, making it easier to hold, in one hand; it also is very easy to archive books after reading;
The kindle screen is much larger; very easy to set font, font size and spacing to your comfort level; have not found any glare at all with the screen, very easy to read; is about same size as a large paperback; Have yet to find a really comfortable position for my hands---but getting there; very easy to download books; haven't yet discovered archiving yet; it states charge lasts about a month-I am only 1/2 way through original charging and it has been 10 days of use--good use, I may add. The lighted case is worth it, although it is not a very bright light-it charges off of the kindle.
Both are very easy to bookmark and turn pages.
All in all, I am happy with my new 'toy'!

BTW, I did not get the 'special' version. Although it is cheaper, That one has advertisements at the bottom of the screen and the screen savers are ads also--I can do without them.
Paid $25 more for mine--ordered thru Amazon and it was here in 2 days!
also got the service plan.
Hope this helps--any more questions about anything, let me know!!
 
Congratulations on the kindle, cookingirl!

Half of my friends are avid readers (the other half have not read more than an M & M since high school).

The readers always swore they would never get used to a Kindle, but they are all hi-tech people, and had to try. They LOVE it!

I'm a reader and don't have the money to try one right now, so I continue to read used books at the WONDERFUL used book store I just found!

But ..... someday!

Lee
 
Thanks cookingirl! Good comparison.

Lee, you made me LOL with your M&M comment. Too funny. I know some folks like that too. Different strokes ......

I enjoy used books also. I buy them at garage sales and discount stores etc. Plus we trade books back and forth. With the age of electronic media I'm afraid all of that is coming to an end. I'll miss it, and have not given up on it yet, but I think we can all see the writing on the wall.

FYI Kindle also has an app that will work on your computer. And somehow, it knows what books you've downloaded so that the same books are available on my laptop as I have available on the iPhone. I can read them on either device. Handy, but I only tried it on the laptop once simply to see if it worked.
 
I just looooveee M&M's!!!!!!:D
Thanks everyone..It is convenient...right now there is a sale on books at amazon 99cents and 2.99.....:hotdog::wow:
 
Love my kindle, have the app on my ipad as well. I still buy books - of course cook books and others. It's great for travel. I currently am reading Unbroken..
 
Cookingirl, I LOVE my Kindle! I also read Pillars of the Earth on it - one of the first books I ordered. Great book. Enjoy.
 
cookingirl said:
I just looooveee M&M's!!!!!!:D
Thanks everyone..It is convenient...right now there is a sale on books at amazon 99cents and 2.99.....:hotdog::wow:
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Hey! Cookingirl...we makes thos m&m's right here in Hackettstown NJ.
If they ever move out...My taxes will skyrocket and I will be out of here.
They are a great tax ratable...
The plant is spotless sanitary wise. DW worked there when we first moved here.
I said,"So Honey, What do you do there?".. She said,"I stuff m&m's in boxes!" L O L
I said,"How many get stuffed in yer mouth?" Ha Ha Ha ....none she said, not allowed; even spillage...no eating on the line. The break room is filled with bowls of them though...all you can eat!

Love when they roast the peanuts, and the wind picks up the exhaust from the ovens...Oooooooo! I get the hungry's for them right away.
Our house has them in just about every room. As a matter of fact...I'm digging in the drawer right now for some peanut ones. Love them too.
 
DW has a kindle....
Loves it, and what is great is...some of the books she reads have a narrator.
She can just listen to the page by page as she reads...or just closes her eye's and listens. Usually when she does that....she falls asleep.
Some narratos are better than others, and you have to be lucky to get a good narrator. They call them audio books. One good thing is they have a preview to listen before you purchase them. That's a good thing.

When she goes in the room to read, I say to her,"Oh Babe,..going to "Once Upon A Time, huh?"
 
I love audiobooks, and listen to them as I cook, clean house, paint. I use my iPod, though, because it's smaller and easier to tuck in a pocket.
 
MexicoKaren said:
I love audiobooks, and listen to them as I cook, clean house, paint. I use my iPod, though, because it's smaller and easier to tuck in a pocket.
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Oh!...Yes!..
Karen.... Tina has at least 300 or so audio tapes. Yes...Tapes! the little cassete tapes. The car is older..and has a original 1997 Becker Radio and Tape Player.
She listens to them constantly. Only problem...was her new books are on CD compact disk. I call them baby records. LOL.. I had to have an auxiliary CD player installed in the trunk that holds 10 disks. She has to tune the radio to 88.3 AM to listen to the discs.

She just loves that!

I bought her as a gift last year, a mp3 Sony little player...small like the ipod...but I was disappointed that Audiobooks did not support the software that the Sony mp3 player runs on....(that became my radio player then).
Then I bought her a refurbished actual ipod second generation player (w) 8 GB memory capacity on ebay like dirt cheap...I think I paid 38.00 for it. She hasn't loaded (or shall I say I have not loaded it for her since I bought it. LOL...
My son says she could use that ipod and patch it into the car radio somehow. I have to look into that... I think it's an adapter that plugs into the cigarette lighter somehow.
Ha Ha Ha ...I have to clean the tape head in the car player every 6 months.

As I type this..LOL...the ad for the kindle is on the TV...for $114.00.
Amazon was great. I paid originally 179.00 and a week later...it went down to 139.00.
I called the Amazon, and they were nice enough to refund the 40.00 to my account.
 
MexicoKaren said:
I love audiobooks, and listen to them as I cook, clean house, paint. I use my iPod, though, because it's smaller and easier to tuck in a pocket.
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belaine said:
I listen to books on ipod. Love it too. Same here while I cook, garden, iron ..... Audible.com is great
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The more I see this...I feel so guilty!
DW has a kindle...and I bought her a ipod.
She keeps asking me to load the audio-books on the ipod, and I tell her..OK..and I also tell her that I will show her how to sync her books to the ipod.

I ask her to let me know when she wants her and me to hook together and do that, but I forget...she has so much on her mind, and with her disability...she gets tired so easily.

I am feeling so bad.....the Task is like right there like a match to be struck to make a flame, but no initiative to do the strike. GRrrrrrrr! bad Bad BAD Jimmy.:bonk: :bonk:
 
Jimmy, Don't feel bad..you are a good hubby!:thumb:
Did you get Tina an iTouch? You can get the kindle app for that..iTunes has audio books also..
Don't you just plug in the iPod to you computer and hit synch? At the end of a day of work, my mind is a 'mush'...
I didn't know Tina was disabled--so sorry to hear that....
cyn
 
Jimmy, it is not hard to load the books onto her iPod. You'll need to download iTunes, and you'll need to download an app from audible.com that is a download manager. I wish I could just dash up there and help you! But if you go to audible.com and go to their help section, it is very well explained.

After you get all that set up, everytime you connect the iPod to the computer, iTunes will automatically open and synch any new content to the iPod. Be sure not to disconnect the iPod until it says that the synch is complete. Also, you can only synch an iPod to ONE computer at a time, so if you have two (or more) choose which one you want to use - probably the fastest one.

Once you get the hang of it, you'll get used to it and it will become second nature. And Tina will love you all the more for it....
 
MexicoKaren said:
Jimmy, it is not hard to load the books onto her iPod. You'll need to download iTunes, and you'll need to download an app from audible.com that is a download manager. I wish I could just dash up there and help you! But if you go to audible.com and go to their help section, it is very well explained.

After you get all that set up, everytime you connect the iPod to the computer, iTunes will automatically open and synch any new content to the iPod. Be sure not to disconnect the iPod until it says that the synch is complete. Also, you can only synch an iPod to ONE computer at a time, so if you have two (or more) choose which one you want to use - probably the fastest one.

Once you get the hang of it, you'll get used to it and it will become second nature. And Tina will love you all the more for it....
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tHANKS kAREN...Ooops...

I know how to assign the sync but DW does not. I'm not a wizard, but I've been around the block when it comes to downloads and uploads etc.
I guess I'm the built in IT man.
DW can get around on the net, and with sites and shopping etc., but if the comp. locks or she loads a program by mistake...she gets frustrated and hate hate hate...the computer becomes stupid.... It's a piece of crap.

LOL... The board burned a chip, and I just sent it out to repair...and the man who cleaned and repaired it said he has never seen a computer with so much stray and tracking cookies in all the years he has been in business.

"T" is a super clicker. She clicks on anything that pops up. Anything.
I am forever running scans on her machine. Besides the auto scans. LOL.

I told her to take her time before clicking....she has what I call..Hurry up and do something before the computer cop jumps on your case, and she thinks she will get a ticket or something for not being quick.
 
LOL, Jimmy...your wife must be related to my husband! I'm the IT "guy" in this household and he is so amazed when I fix something on his computer. He also curses at his computer, and genuinely believes that it is possessed. His computer needs frequent scans and he catches an occasional virus because he is sometimes enticed to click on things he shouldn't...
 
MexicoKaren said:
LOL, Jimmy...your wife must be related to my husband! I'm the IT "guy" in this household and he is so amazed when I fix something on his computer. He also curses at his computer, and genuinely believes that it is possessed. His computer needs frequent scans and he catches an occasional virus because he is sometimes enticed to click on things he shouldn't...
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Oh Karen...that is so funny!

I told DW...don't click on the shaking pop up that says..Hurry Hurry you just contacted a virus click to delete..NOW NOW...and the thing is squiggley, and there is Tina...trying to line up to click the X ....

OMG It's so funny... or, "HONEY .....I dont want this home page.... How come I can't get my comcast home page???? Quick Quick.....Something Stupid Happened...

And there I am..OKay"Do a restart"...I know that won't change the viral home page she got by mistake...but I get a kick out of hearing her scream when comcast page is still not her home page. Ha Ha Ha ...I like to tease! Most of the time...with consequenses. snort Snort Snort!!!
 
MexicoKaren said:
Oh that is hilarious, Jimmy! Because Jerry's favorite complaint is "%$#@#$! They changed my home page again!"
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Ha Ha Ha ...It's like the Grinch who stole Christmas from the "Who's"

The "They's".... ( The ones who stole the home page )

So now we got the "Who's" and the "They's"...
 
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