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Erfa wrote: "What about Nook Simple Touch? Have you checked that out yet? It uses e-ink too. Maybe it'll suit you."The Nook Simple Touch isn't available in Europe. ;)
I looked at kobo before I bought my Sony which I absolutely love. You are correct about being softer on the eyes and you can also put an additional memory card in it. Nothing is lighter than the Sony! even with the cover and the light - nothing. You also have the library option. Last christmas I received a Nook Color as a gift and what it has that the Sony doesn't is the ability to loan your books. Kobo will accept other epubs as well so no issue there but I only know two people with Kobos and they each aren't pleased with the selection and price - I'm told the books come but maybe a little later and are a little more expensive. hope this helps a little and welcome to the world of digital readers, you'll wonder why it took you so long. Most people I know with readers are completely sold on the one they have and we all say we read even more now.
Pat wrote: "I looked at kobo before I bought my Sony which I absolutely love. You are correct about being softer on the eyes and you can also put an additional memory card in it. Nothing is lighter than the ..."Thank you very much for your comment! However, I couldn't help but notice that you're talking about the option to buy books with the e-reader itself. I won't be using that option very often (unless it saves more then I expect). I will buy my books as ePubs on the internet and put them on the e-reader afterwards. So the ability to loan books isn't very important.. The battery, screen and durability is much more important to me!
The Sony and Kobo both look amazing but I've heard the Kobo is a little bit slower (especially with hundreds of books loaded on it's harddisk) whereas the Sony does not have this problem.
Therefore, I think it's going to be the Sony PRS-1 unless someone else has a good tip. =)
I'm pretty old-school on almost everything. I always figured that they couldn't improve on paper, aside from the environmental thing. Print books had so much going for them, I resisted getting a reader until B&N offered a bundle deal with a free Nook Simple Touch with a NY Times daily subscription. I saw the eInk display and was instantly hooked, and it is the only eGadget I've got that had NO learning curve. Use is completely intuitive. I read six books right off the bat. Then, one day, I had to review a book that wasn't released yet in eFormats, so I settled in with a hardbound paper book. After a couple of pages, I caught myself lightly swiping the bottom of the page with my fingertip, right to left, to turn the page. Exactly as I do on my Nook. I guess my brain has re-programmed for eInk!
Hello Anna,Will I have a sony and nook ereader. I have the sony ereader it is fine but the cost of book are expensive. I love my nook 1st edition ereader. With a nook reader in general the books are not that expensive to purchase and if your friends have pdf books the want you to read it really easy to upload on to your nook from any computer. I so suggest the nook.
I have both an iPad and a Kindle, and I much prefer the Kindle for reading. What I like about the Kindle is that I can easily 'one click' (buy) books from Amazon. Although, that has gotten me into trouble with my credit card, lol.
Richard wrote: "I'm pretty old-school on almost everything. I always figured that they couldn't improve on paper, aside from the environmental thing. Print books had so much going for them, I resisted getting a re..."Thanks Richard ;). Now I'm really looking forward to having my very own e-reader too! Unfortunately, the Nook is not available for sale in my country.
Billy-jean wrote: "Hello Anna,
Will I have a sony and nook ereader. I have the sony ereader it is fine but the cost of book are expensive. I love my nook 1st edition ereader. With a nook reader in general the books a..."
Thanks. Could you please tell me how much they differ in price? A normal book in the Sony 'store', a book in the store for Nook and a digital book from amazon?
Michelle L. wrote: "I have both an iPad and a Kindle, and I much prefer the Kindle for reading. What I like about the Kindle is that I can easily 'one click' (buy) books from Amazon. Although, that has gotten me int..."
Haha sorry to hear that about your creditcard :P. I looked into iPads but my boyfriend said that it is not suitable for reading. I guess he's right ;). Thanks for the reply!
Hello AnnaIf you got an ipad you can download different ebook apps. IE kindle apps and or nook apps and just can just as upload a pdf book to your ipad. It just the the ipad is really expensive.
The price for a sony ebook Gone Girl by G.Flynn 12.99(bestseller from sony
Nook price for the same book it cost the same I was very shock by this new discover.
Honsetly you should pick a ereader that you like and most all it does not hurt your eyes.
Anna wrote: "Haha sorry to hear that about your creditcard :P. I looked into iPads but my boyfriend said that it is not suitable for reading. I guess he's right ;). Thanks for the reply! "Your boyfriend is right. The iPad is too heavy, and you can't read it well in bright daylight.
I like the cheapest version of the Kindle. I have a Kindle Fire, too, I use it to read at night.
I love my ipad!!! Like Billy-jean said....you can down load different apps and get the best of all the different ebook sites out there. It is a little hard to read in the bright sun if its directly facing it, but I just proped the pad on my stand and it was fine. I love the fact that it's color and can do other things on it besides reading. I dont know about the other ereaders and what they offer. But i know if you get a kindle or a nook you will not be able to down load from the other site. With the pad you can, although i find most of my books on Amazon.
Anna wrote: "Hi everybody!I want to purchase an e-reader but I'm not sure which one to get. I wondered if some of you on goodreads.com have some experience with these little machines?
At first I had to decid..."
I have the kindle keyboard (I've also had the two previous versions of kindle too and only upgraded because they were gifts from hubby) I LOVE IT!
I love being able to buy with one click, transfer files to my kindle on my computer or via email, I love the clarity of the screen and the weight of the device.
If you go with a kindle I recommend you look at one of the covers with a built in light... worth it's weight in gold!
The kindle battery lasts an age if you turn off your wireless (like 2 weeks if you read an hour or so a day) and in terms of durability my kindle travels everywhere with me in my handbag, it's been dropped, sat on and rolled on when I fell asleep while reading and it's still going well.
The only thing I don't like, is that with my 1700 books on it, when I highlight a quote I like it freezes the screen for a while, but this didn't occur until I put over 1000 books on it :P
I would look into Kindle (or possibly an Ipad with a Kindle app- I think someone mentioned this above.)With KDP monopolizing a lot of the book world these days you may find that without kindle many of the books you want to buy are not available to you. (Of course I like to read a lot of Indie stuff, so maybe that's just me.)
Also, I've heard that Nook is essentially useless outside of the US, so if you like to travel you might not like that.
Personally I have a Kindle Fire and absolutly love it, and I have a lot of family members who use kindle. They all seem to love them too.
I recently blogged about my Kindle Fire, so if you're interested I share about how useful it's been to me here http://laurynapril.blogspot.com/2012/...
I have the Kindle Touch and I love it! One thing I have noticed as well is the amount of free books I've been getting with the Kindle. I have almost two hundred books and I paid for maybe five or more of them. Amazon offers a lot of indie books and I don't know if Barnes and Nobles offers the same.The only thing I'm not crazy about when it comes to the Kindle are the covers. Just about all the free classics have boring covers! I know it's an e-book and all, but still, is it too much to ask for a cover that at least has a photo? Also I wish the ebook would open up with the cover instead of the first page. That's just me though.
Rike, I have the ipad and I love it. But to your comment about the first page when you open instead of the cover. I also get that so it's not only on the Kindle but i think it's more like the site. I also have the app for the nook on my ipad and it opens up on the cover. So having both apps i can go to both sites B&N and Amazon and choose from their free list and i have noticed that Amazon has a lot, (a really big difference) in free books and B&N doesn't.
Anna wrote: "Hi everybody!I want to purchase an e-reader but I'm not sure which one to get. I wondered if some of you on goodreads.com have some experience with these little machines?
At first I had to decid..."
Anna have you made a decision yet? Just wondering what you ended up picking.
Elsa wrote: "Anna wrote: "Hi everybody!I want to purchase an e-reader but I'm not sure which one to get. I wondered if some of you on goodreads.com have some experience with these little machines?
At first I..."
Hey Elsa,
I notice that most people recommend the Nook or the Kindle (or an Ipad), but the problem is that those are not available in my counrty. That's why I came down to two choices: Sony PRS-T1 or the Kobo Touch. I haven't made a decision yet, because I heard that on 5 September the new Sony PRS-T2 will come out. So I'm waiting till then and if the reviews are good, then I think it will be either that or the old Sony ;)
WHAT? you don't have the Ipad? What world do you live on? I didn't know that, I though the apple was everywhere? (apple is associated with ipad right? or am i confussing that with two totaly differnet companies?)
Elsa wrote: "WHAT? you don't have the Ipad? What world do you live on? I didn't know that, I though the apple was everywhere? (apple is associated with ipad right? or am i confussing that with two totaly dif..."Oh haha, no we have the Ipad, but we don't have the Nook or the Kindle :P Sorry, my mistake :P
Hi Anna,Just wanted to say that you can buy the Kindle even though you don't live in a country that has an Amazon site. I can see that you're from the Netherlands? That just means that you have to buy the Kindle from the US and you'll also buy all your books from there.
When I got my Kindle, there was no Amazon here in Spain, but it was no problem :-)
Anyway, didn't mean to confuse you, just wanted to let you know :-)
Camilla wrote: "Hi Anna,Just wanted to say that you can buy the Kindle even though you don't live in a country that has an Amazon site. I can see that you're from the Netherlands? That just means that you have t..."
Thanks again everyone for your replies! This time I'll try to make myself clear on the subject of American products, since everyone recommends me a Kindle. :P
First of all, I don't own a creditcard. In the Netherlands we don't really need one, we've got some sort of internet payment by bank which most sites use instead. I could use someone else's CC to pay for the e-reader itself, of course! But as far as I know, all e-readers e-stores and apps use this as a payment method for books. I don't really feel like borrowing someone's CC every time I want a new book. :P
Then there is the problem with power supply, of course.
I know a lot of you use your iPad as an e-reader but like Michelle L. said, it's heavier then a regular e-reader and I like an e-ink screen better. I just like having a device for only my books you know? :P
Therfore, my only choice right now is Sony. Kind of unfortunate, but I think the new PRS-T2 looks great. Too bad no-one owns a Sony from what I've read until now haha! Can you guys at least tell me what you think about it?
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rd-read...
I have a much older version of Sony Reader and am glad to learn here that a newer one is coming out. I won't be upgrading right away, as my ancient model has held up too well over time. I had a software issue with it a little while ago due to a malicious download and I cannot say enough good things about Sony's customer service representative who helped me through that.
Me personally, I'm more than happy with the free Kindle and Nook readers available free for smartphones. Then again I've heard others need a bigger screen to read comfortably, y'know?Admittedly, I'm re-reading Wuthering Heights...and for some reason, I just prefer a good ol' hardback for somethin' like that. :3
I prefer the original Kindle for reading with the liquid paper. I also have a Kindle Fire but I never read on it. The computer type screen hurts my eyes after a while and I also like being able to read in the sun.
I have nook glow light and i really like it.
I have Nook Touch which I really like. Not sure how long it'll last since I use if for at least an hour every day. The charge lasts for a month or a little over a month with an hour of reading a day.
I have two Kindles and a color Nook and I love the Kindle. It depends on what you are looking for. If you want a straight forward e-reader that is easy on the eyes, hands down the Kindle is the best. If you want to see color, illustrations, or graphs, you’ll want to get either the Kindle Fire or the color Nook. I personally don’t have much use for t hem because they are essentially tablets with a backlit screen. If I wanted to read on that sort of thing, I would go with an iPad. I am an avid reader and I love my Kindle so much that I find reading on paper difficult now! I bought the color Nook to read some books that had heavy graphic content and it is fine for that but I rarely use it.As for battery, the Kindle lasts a least a week even with heavy usage and charges really quickly. The color Nook on the other hand runs out of juice very quickly. It is the difference between the backlit screen technologies vs. the electronic ink technology.
I have 3 ereaders as well. Though 2 nooks and 1 kindle. I use my nook HD a lot. Reading, going online, watching Netflix. But the screen can bother my eyes after awhile. So I also have the nook simple touch - which I like to read on but the interface is in my opinion not that great. Not user friendly at all. My kindle - also the simplest model - is much easier to use and is very user friendly. From experience if a buyer wants an reader for mostly reading I'd go for one that isn't a tablet. And overall I've had a good experience with both nook and kindle. I hardly ever read paper books anymore.
I also had hard time picking ereader in Europe (sometimes I feel like living in a closed world or something. ..). my experience so far : I have Sony ereader PRS-T1. great performance. im happy with it and even more so because I sit too much in front of a monitor its very good for my eyes. However the bad part is that not all epub format books are authorized for sale in EU (sucks! ). So here comes my kindle app for my phone and mini PC (so far no restrictions there). Sony works for me - easy to navigate, quick page "turn", touch screen, good for my eyes, wifi accessible (nice to downloading anywhere anytime) and very compact.Anna and just for the record I also live in the Netherlands now and all Dutch books go on ereader (my Dutch friends tell me so :) )
I don't own an ereader (if I did, I'd fail out of med school). But I saw the title of this discussion and thought I'd share: Because B&N may go private without including the Nook division, the future of Nooks is a little iffy. B&N has also said they're going to license their e-content to other tablets and ereaders. Here's an article: The Outlook Darkens for the Barnes & Noble Nook
That's actually the main reason I decided to be loyal to Barnes & noble. It doesn't take much to see that the future of bookstores looks bad. I was heartbroken when border's closed its doors. This way I feel as though I'm still buying from a bookstore. I won't lie though. Having my library on a digital format does make me nervous. I would be nervous with Amazon too however. In this world and this market nothing is certain.
Traci L. wrote: "That's actually the main reason I decided to be loyal to Barnes & noble. It doesn't take much to see that the future of bookstores looks bad. I was heartbroken when border's closed its doors..."*nods* I know exactly what you mean. Even though I have almost no time to read (especially since the writing process began), I make it a point to go have coffee/study in a bookstore once in a while, so I can feel like I'm doing *something* to support them. I hated Borders closing too; it would be a tragedy if traditional bookstores were lost to us in the wave of e-pubs (which I'll have to embrace as a writer).
I hav the second gen kindle and I like it because its got its own internet so you dont have to connect to wifi. I also have a kobo which is the chaptets version and so far that's my favorite. One of the main reasons is because I can take out library books on that and I can't on kindle. I tried the sony one and hated it.
I have an older Kobo, although I also have a smart phone and read books on both devices (and the computer).I definitely prefer the e-ink over the display of my phone. The battery lasts a long time on my Kobo, whereas my phone dies quickly. My version is fairly basic (I think it was the first version to come out with wireless capabilities). Browsing the internet/buying books on my Kobo is a real pain. Generally, I just side-load my books onto the device so it's not a problem. I only happened to discover this in an airport with nothing better to do.
Haven't tried to take out library books. Perhaps that will be my next experiment.
Anyway. Love my e-reader.
I want to purchase an e-reader but I'm not sure which one to get. I wondered if some of you on goodreads.com have some experience with these little machines?
At first I had to decide if I'd purchase a TFT screen or a brand new E-ink. After some online research, I decided that a E-ink would be better for my eyes when reading a LOT. Then it came to which brand and size I'd prefer.
I came down to two choices, both being 6" E-ink e-readers from known brands. The first one is the Sony PRS-T1. The second (somewhat lesser known) is the Kobo Touch.
Which one should I get? I'd take all the help I can get. I hope you can help me! Thanks a lot in advance! :]