I believe I have said the e-readers will never be for me. I may be wrong.
Tom bought me a Nook Color for our anniversary. I spent a few days checking it all out, reading the info about all the stuff I can do with it. I was also reading the new Alice Hoffman book, The Dovekeepers, which runs about 400 pages. I found myself squinting at the pages and having to put it aside when my eyes got tired.
So I went online and bought the download of the book. At $14.99 it was about what I pay for some paperbacks - and this was a new release. (In fact I was the first one to get it from the library!) I pumped up the font size and got to the place I had left off. I am so happy with it! So easy to read and I get tired of sitting before my eyes get tired. I am going through the book at a rapid pace (it's really great, by the way) and so now I am thinking about my wish list of books for future downloads.
I also ordered a couple of real, ink and paper books I know I will want to keep for when I get those shelves...
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I love the touch, smell, emotional connection to books one can hold. Since buying a Kindle 3 years ago, however, I have been an e-book collector. I read books on my iPad via the Kindle and Nook apps. Nothing like carrying 20 books on a 2-week vacation to feel secure. Being able to read in bed without a light is real plus - outdoors, not so good. Adjusting the font to fit my tired eyes, genius. OK, so I can't recirculate paperbacks, but I also don't add to the trash heap. We already have enough overstuffed bookshelves in the house for me to feel secure ;-)
I said never about e-readers, and now you can have my kindle when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
I said "Never" also, but then I saw a Kindle and it was all over. I love e-reading!!! Let us know if you find you are reading even more than before you got the Nook-I sure have-it's so easy to "go to the library and bookstore," so to speak.
Enjoy your Nook! There is room in the world for both real and virtual books. I have the original Kindle, but now I'm using the Kindle app on iPad and iPhone. Most of my reading material is still from the library, though.
I love my Kindle! Especially that I can up the font size --my eyes are so appreciative.
However, I do also love the touch, smell, and look of actual books. Sometimes, with my favorite authors, I'm tempted to buy both -one to read and one to see on the shelf. I haven't actually done that --yet.
Noooooooooo!
I look at a Kindle Touch and think stuff like "for that amount of money, I can get 50 books at Goodwill and won't have to worry about batteries going dead." They're going to have to drop a lot lower in price before my basic cheapness doesn't win the mental debate.
My favorite thing about my ColorNook is that I can read in the dark. My second favorite thing is how light a 700 page book is.
Hypothetically, if we could have someone teach us how to "hack" the files we could trade books. Hypothetically of course.
I love my Nook. I got the basic one and regret not getting the color one.
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