Unofficial Tex Murphy

okay who has one & what brand, size. What features do you use on it.

I'm still looking for Facebook, preferrably in softback pocket edition.

-Fred

I have yet to succumb, but I am sure that I will eventually.

My brother has an ipad that he reads ebooks on and he loves it.
My dad has a Kindle that he's pretty happy with, although, I think he is considering getting an ipad as well.

I've got a Kindle 2 but have been drooling over the Kindle 3. Anybody interested in buying a slightly used 2 so I can have money to buy the 3?

I love my Kindle. You can read it in sunlight. You can play mp3s off it. It has a speaking option to read some books out loud to you. My favorite part is when you are reading along and see a word you don't know, you can select the word and Kindle will give you the dictionary definition.

It has a rudimentary web browser built in which is really intended for text oriented web pages like Wikipedia than graphical web pages. It's got the free 3G option on it so you can buy books anywhere there's signal.

But I'm sure with so many other ereaders on the market you've got tons of choices depending on what features are important to you. In the world of electronics, no matter what you buy today, it will always get beaten by what comes out tomorrow.

Early adopter here. Gave the Mrs. a Kindle pretty much a few months after launch. She loves it, used it overseas. She can get basic internet on it for free. Still uses it years later, not one problem yet.

I bought a nook, and didn't like it. Slow to boot up, slow to shut down, drains battery faster than Kindle, other device support was awful, and still is. My co-worker bought a new Nook color, seems to have sped up the sleep mode, but I question B&N's future.

Then I bought an IPAD. Love love love it. I used the Kindle application for most of my purchases. (Amazon seems to have the biggest selection of books I want to buy.) And then I use the Ibooks application from Apple for all my imported PDF files.

I've read on the beach with both, but I prefer the Ipad, just cause I can do just about anything with it, and what I can't, I use my iphone 4. But PC all the way for computing. lol

I think I want a Ipad.

The new IPad2 coming out in april will have a smaller screen (7inch) , better display & core 2 processor.
Most of my applications I will run on it are word documents & play a few movies files that I download from the net. I would be pretty cool surfing the net on my lap as my notebook is too heavy (17" screen)

I don't think I will wait for the new one as I am not interested in going to a smaller screen & not interested in having the camera.

So how much memory is enough - 16,32,64

plumgas wrote:I think I want a Ipad.

The new IPad2 coming out in april will have a smaller screen (7inch) , better display & core 2 processor.
Most of my applications I will run on it are word documents & play a few movies files that I download from the net. I would be pretty cool surfing the net on my lap as my notebook is too heavy (17" screen)

I don't think I will wait for the new one as I am not interested in going to a smaller screen & not interested in having the camera.

So how much memory is enough - 16,32,64

Good choice! I figured if I was going to spend the $$ to go for it, so I got the 64 gig. But I have not even remotely filled it. Unless you are storing a lot of video files, or movies, or your music library 32 should do you just fine. 16 would be ok I guess, but my little nano has 16 gig, and apps aren't huge unless you get a ton of them, but I figure, an extra $100 for 2x the storage? I got the 3g version for traveling, but only turn on the data plan for vacations. There's free wifi almost everywhere in WA!

By sticking with the paper books I'm economizing. Though I got to admit there's been a recent electronics craze.

there a few cheap e books going around all coming out of china, which have all formats included (video & audio) but they only seem to do one feature well. I think the ipad is the only one that does it all.

Jen,

I think 16gb is fine & my tv dowloads are watch & delete, 32gb might be handy as you don't really know what you will do in the future. How many times have purchased a pc & had to shove more ram into it.

I'm with Bjyman; actual books, you know, with covers, binding, paper with words on them, etc. is the only way TOG flies. Y'all gonna rot your eyes out staring at computer screens of one kind or another all day.

TOG has given y'all a warning; don't say I didn't say that I told you so.

I used to read ebooks many years ago and they do have some advantages but I do like the real thing. They hold their value too (just look at Aaron's books!). I make books form time to time and I love the finished look and being able to give them as gifts to friends. Nothing like it.

ha ha everybody, Ijust logged in on my new ipad, very cool, god this site looks really good.

I have to say that I'm with JTOG. I just like having a physical book in my hands. I like the feel of it, the weight of it, the smell of it. It's just a nice experience.

Then again, I could just be odd.

well thats where I am different, i can't stand turning pages & can't stand the feel of the pages between my fingers. I haven't read books for years.

I love how the with the ipad you just move your finger across the screen & the page flips over.

I'm with jen, I just love it.

found this great program called calibre & all you do it click on the pdf file & then click convert to ebook, fantastic.

dcat151 wrote:I have to say that I'm with JTOG. I just like having a physical book in my hands. I like the feel of it, the weight of it, the smell of it. It's just a nice experience.

Then again, I could just be odd.

I have room in my heart for both.