Kindle or not?

[Sailor Steve]

I've never thought of having either, as most of the books I want are reference works, but my dad has one and loves it.

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

EDIT: Wow...unintentional, but almost the same post as the one above mine posted at the same time...guess that means our observations line up pretty well!

Or you were looking over each others' shoulders and passing notes in class.

I'm telling teacher!

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I've never thought of having either, as most of the books I want are reference works, but my dad has one and loves it.


Or you were looking over each others' shoulders and passing notes in class.

I'm telling teacher!

You're just sore that we're ruining your grade curve.

[Sailor Steve]

mumble-grumble-frazza-razza I hate you!

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

mumble-grumble-frazza-razza I hate you!

*smooch!*

I've spoken to my father-in-law recently (he's a rare sight) and he's raved about Amazon's Kindle, and now I'm considering getting one for the wife (she'll have to wait till christmas time now). Do those of you that have got one have good or bad experiences with it?

I had offered to buy the wife one, she couldn't see the point.
She borrowed one last weekend for while she was away at a competition.
Now it looks like I have to follow up on the offer.

[MaddogK]

I was pricing the nook when I was donated a 1st gen Kindle DX, an am glad I didn't buy the nook. The DX screen size fits my needs perfectly as I don't need color, the battery life is fantastic, the built-in 3G allows ma to download books from Amazon, other online sites, and I can check my email with it.

Bad thing is the built in PDF reader is limited. It's killed a few picture intensive PDF books to the point they're unreadable, luckily there's an app to allow you to format your own book files. I've taken to re-writing a few books with this app to format them to my needs. Works great for service manuals that I use alot.

[DarkFish]

The only help I can give here is the advice not to buy an iPad. Apple has a long history of releasing mediocre technology for high-tech prices. If you want the processing power of the iPad, buy a faster smartphone for half the price. If you want a good reading screen, buy something like a kindle or NOOK for even less than half the price. If you want both processing power and a large screen, buy a smartphone AND a kindle/NOOK and you're still cheaper than an iPad and have better technology.

[Bilge_Rat]

...my precious...