I'm so excited...

[Gary Compton]

So after months of going round in ever decreasing circles. I bought a Kindle Fire!

Hip hip hoorah I hear yo say so just navigating the device at mo but loaded my WIP to it.

So read first few chaps and my God I'm good - very good in fact. But that's the wonderful wold of Gary where life is strange and things are not always what they seem.

I know its stupid but I cant read a paper book. Think I have sampled prob 1 or 2 over 30 years and yet on a PC I can read as much as I want and more importantly on a tablet I can read comfortably.

So I'm a freak? I know but a nice one LOL

Onwards and sideways as always

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Enjoy your Kindle Fire! I love mine. I've even started reading books on it!

 

[Warren_Paul]

I've migrated to using an ebook reader -- Kindle Fire certainly seems like a nice tablet, although backlit screens have always put me off wanting to read books on such tablets -- I use a Sony Reader PRS-T1, and sorry to say, my days of buying printed books are in the past. Especially since Robot Trading Co is doing such competitive pricing on ebooks. And Amazon too.

Ebook readers are just so convenient and easy to hold. I don't need to worry about knocking the book off the side of the bed or desk and the bookmark falling out then having to find my place again. I don't need to worry about my bookshelf being full and having to find somewhere else to fit the book when I'm done with it. I also don't need to worry about carting around multitudes of boxes of books I'll likely never read again if I ever choose to move. The reader has more space on it than I'll ever fill up.


So... just up with the technology times?

 

[chrispenycate]

Since getting back to the UK I have made my Amazon account function and bought I eBook, bought two dead tree books (new) and succeeded in getting fifteen kilos of dead tree to Oxfam without buying any second hand books(!) I have also joined the public library and taken out (and read) Hamilton's evolutionary void, and had a friend cross load me a number of books for my Kindle (which I already own, or have owned, in dead tree, so I don't feel guilty about the authors).

Much as I love my Kindle, and lugging the cardboard box was an eloquent demonstration of its advantages in space and weight, I don't see myself ever getting a divorce from old fashioned reading habits (and it's perhaps fortunate that the second hand bookshop in Arundel closes early, or I might have come out on the negative side of the equation.

 

[Bowler1]

You’ve said before somewhere, Gary that you’ve had problems with reading, some dyslexia (if I’m wrong my apologies) so normal text has been a problem for you. Maybe the screen counters this, the brightness and the flickering screen (you won’t register the flickering screen but your brain will) make it possible for you to read comfortably. Regardless, I’m happy for you, the joy of reading is a true pleasure indeed.

As for me using a tablet for reading, not yet and I do have an ipad. The ipad is great for surfing the web and zooming around the world, but for me, I still like the feel of paper. In a few years I’ll be considered old an crusty for sticking with paper, but I still like to an old printed book.

 

[Gary Compton]

You’ve said before somewhere, Gary that you’ve had problems with reading, some dyslexia (if I’m wrong my apologies) so normal text has been a problem for you. Maybe the screen counters this, the brightness and the flickering screen (you won’t register the flickering screen but your brain will) make it possible for you to read comfortably. Regardless, I’m happy for you, the joy of reading is a true pleasure indeed.

As for me using a tablet for reading, not yet and I do have an ipad. The ipad is great for surfing the web and zooming around the world, but for me, I still like the feel of paper. In a few years I’ll be considered old an crusty for sticking with paper, but I still like to an old printed book.

That's right. I have only ever read 2 or 3 books all the way through. But I can read on computers. I've downloaded Stephen Sweeney's Battle for the Solar System and am reading that again as that was one of the 2-3 above.

My brain just flies through the text on the Kindle - I think I'm a freak!

I'm happy as it opens up a new world for me!

 

[Juliana]

Have fun, Gary!
I love my kindle, and seeing as 3 out of 4 in my household are allergic to dust, fewer paper books means less dust, too.

 

[abraves247]

Have fun with the Kindle fire. I love mine.