Do You Prefer E-book Readers Or Having The Physical Book?

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sam peebles

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I always snicker at the new commercial with the two women lounging by the pool at some resort, one woman struggling to read her E-Reader in the sun, trying to shade the screen with her hand and her hat, while the other reclining woman looks on smugly because her E-Reader is paper-white bright and she has no problem reading.

Technology...almost catching up to the printing press invented 600 years ago...and bragging about it.
 

Ebdim9th

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"Technology...almost catching up to the printing press invented 600 years ago...and bragging about it." - sam peebles .... ooh, burnnn!!!!
 
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MrsSmeej

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Thank gods for my library because my Kindle broke,
And my books stored in the cloud have all gone up in smoke.
Now my darlin' husband, who is hooked on Shuffled Row,
Suffers through withdrawal symptoms... It's a grievous blow.

Warranty's expired so the folks at Amazon
Couldn't do a lot to help - now all those books are gone.
They no longer make the kind of Kindle that I had;
Offered me a discount on their version of i-Pad.

If I want an i-Pad then I'll go by one of those.
From now on I'm buying books with covers I can close.
'though it might be easier to click a link and buy,
They don't do me any good when they're stuck in the sky.

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Thank gods for my library because my Kindle broke,
And my books stored in the cloud have all gone up in smoke.
Now my darlin' husband, who is hooked on Shuffled Row,
Suffers through withdrawal symptoms... It's a grievous blow.

Warranty's expired so the folks at Amazon
Couldn't do a lot to help - now all those books are gone.
They no longer make the kind of Kindle that I had;
Offered me a discount on their version of i-Pad.

If I want an i-Pad then I'll go by one of those.
From now on I'm buying books with covers I can close.
'though it might be easier to click a link and buy,
They don't do me any good when they're stuck in the sky.

:Oo:

I'd echo what Walter said. I have 2 iPads and the books I've purchased through Amazon Kindle store are available on both so maybe yours are still there in the Amazon Cloud and you'd be able to retrieve them once you registered your new device through your Amazon account.
 

The Nameless

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MrsSmeej and Co, I would suggest ditching the Kindle, not the format. My Kobo mini was dirt cheap at £49, but not as cheap as the last time I saw them on offer - £29.99. Plus the battery last for well over a month on a single charge, heavy readers would easily get 2 weeks out of an overnight charge. Just like Apple, the kindle is more expensive yet more restrictive. Epub is the most commonly used format, but kindles can't read them.

I have just finished reading Desperation, and I have picked up my kobo to have a browse through some possible next reads. I have some non King books on it (I pretty much only buy SK real books).
 
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Walter Oobleck

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Saw an Amazon advert for Revival by Mr. King for the Kindle for $14.++. Would you order a book of Mr. King's on your e-reader?

yeah...I would...I've ordered, downloaded, read several stories from King on my kindle...UR, In the Tall Grass, a couple others. Imagine life after the zombie apocalypse...you got you book-burning zombies, you with no readable books...or you with your kindle and your Iverson & Richardson single-shot twenty-gauge, safe in that room under the steps...WITH reading material, all those who laughed at you outside pounding on the door, zombie-eaten, no books. Payback.