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Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:29 pm

l'm thinking about buying an amazon kindle.

good idea, bad idea.

is there a ''this is the one to have'' version

Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:04 pm

As to your question, have no answer.
I do know that old school white screen Kindle may not survive if you fall asleep and roll over on it.
I no longer have a Kindle. It was really enjoyable while it lasted.

Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:15 pm

it's not for sleeping, l seem to spend far too much time waiting, be it for customers, or the wife, or the boy.
l've lost my page a few times, and think a kindle may be the answer.
my only problem, is l have 3 different books on the go right now.
one at home, one in my work van, and the 3rd in my westy.
l'm not sure l want to afford 3 of them.
my59 wrote: As to your question, have no answer.
I do know that old school white screen Kindle may not survive if you fall asleep and roll over on it.
I no longer have a Kindle. It was really enjoyable while it lasted.

Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:27 pm

I have one of the original Kindles with a nice cover that has a reading light because it's just a standard LCD screen. It's my favorite to read on but is no longer supported by Amazon directly which means I cannot purchase from the Kindle anymore I have to go to a device that I can log into Amazon and choose to send the book to the that Kindle.

I also have a Kindle Fire with a backlit screen. Not my favorite as in bright sun you can't read very well and in the dark it's a lot of light even on it's dimmest setting. It also has other functions, but rarely use those, I just need something to read on.

Originally bought one for traveling, I read a lot and and carrying books was getting out of hand as I read up to a dozen books over the summer while flying around the world. It was and still is amazing.

Try the kindle app on your smart phone and see if it works for you.

Wed Mar 05, 2025 2:33 am

markswagen wrote: l've lost my page a few times, and think a kindle may be the answer.
my only problem, is l have 3 different books on the go right now.
one at home, one in my work van, and the 3rd in my westy.
l'm not sure l want to afford 3 of them.

erm, couple of things come to mind -
a bookmark or two would be cheaper.
you buy one kindle and carry that about with the 3 or more books on it #-o

I don't have a kindle or similar as I don't like reading from screens

Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:09 am

markswagen wrote: lwho reads on an amazon kindle
Mrs. Cusser does, in bed. She has an eye problem and says for her that using the Kindle is easier for reading.

Sometimes she even puts it down while I'm "busy" !!!!!

Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:49 am

l read hardback books, and fold the cover in as a book mark.
l still get lost sometimes.
and the different books are in different places, when l only had one, 2/3's of the time, l was in a different spot to the book.
l got fed up with that, and started in different book in each place.

finster wrote: markswagen wrote: l've lost my page a few times, and think a kindle may be the answer.
my only problem, is l have 3 different books on the go right now.
one at home, one in my work van, and the 3rd in my westy.
l'm not sure l want to afford 3 of them.

erm, couple of things come to mind -
a bookmark or two would be cheaper.
you buy one kindle and carry that about with the 3 or more books on it #-o

I don't have a kindle or similar as I don't like reading from screens

Wed Mar 05, 2025 7:56 am

Cusser wrote: Sometimes she even puts it down while I'm "busy" !!!!!
I guess it beats staring at the ceiling ;)

Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:40 am

I just use the Kindle app on my smartphone. I read a lot and I like the convenience of just having to keep track of my phone.

Wed Mar 05, 2025 9:28 am

Glenn wrote: Cusser wrote: Sometimes she even puts it down while I'm "busy" !!!!!
I guess it beats staring at the ceiling ;)
And "lie back and thinking of England !!!" as the old saying states. Sometimes stated as "close your eyes and think of England".

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Wed Mar 05, 2025 11:47 am

My 2p:-

I prefer reading on a device than a book. I think I've only ever read two books more than once (Day of the Triffids and I Robot), every other book gets read once. I'll ingest the story, and thereafter the carcass of the book just becomes clutter.

There's some ridiculous custom/stigma that books have to be cherished and looked after. I couldn't bring myself to throw them away, so I'd end up hoarding them until I got pissed off enough to take them to a charity shop.

I've tried a few Kindles but never been really happy with them until last year. My Mrs bought me a Kindle Scribe. It's the best e-book reader that I've used.

The screen on the older Kindles is too small. I speed-read, and effectively scan several words ahead of the words that my brain is processing. In portrait mode there are too few words per line on the older Kindles. In landscape mode, there are too few lines per page. They don't fit with my reading style.

The later Kindle Fires are a better size, but they're primarily a tablet (albeit a crap one) and their screens are too glossy and dim for reading outdoors in bright sunlight. And they're useless as a tablet because they're so f-ing slow! If I didn't use mine every day, I'd have to wait several minutes while it processed updates before I could use it. It was infuriating.

I've found that Scribe screen is big enough to read in portrait mode at a comfortable text size. The page size is closer to a standard paperback book.

It also has a larger margin on one side, so I can hold it with one hand without the heel and thumb of that hand obscuring the edge of the screen.

Added bonus is that you can write on it (hence the Scribe name), so it can be used as an electronic note pad. It has handwriting recognition and you can output the results to a file to send to your computer.

But the handwriting bit makes them expensive.

Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:01 pm

l'm with on looking after books, years ago while packing to leave australia, l was reading ''shogun, james clavell'' the book is 800 pages or there abouts, as l have to condense everything, and l was half way though, l tore the book in half, and offered the front 400 or so pages to a friend, he asked me how it ended, l told him l didn't know, showing him the 400 pages l hadn't read yet.
on the other end of that, l had bought and read the phantom menace, this is all back in 1998, l bought a copy, and was extremely careful while reading it, l kept it bagged, and kept the reciept, as when l finished reading it, l returned it to a different shop in the chain where l had bought it, l suggested that because the book had a few different loose covers on the hard cover, l'd been given more than one copy, showing a near pristine copy, that obviously no one had read ;)
l got a refund.

Who.Me? wrote: My 2p:-

I prefer reading on a device than a book. I think I've only ever read two books more than once (Day of the Triffids and I Robot), every other book gets read once. I'll ingest the story, and thereafter the carcass of the book just becomes clutter.

There's some ridiculous custom/stigma that books have to be cherished and looked after. I couldn't bring myself to throw them away, so I'd end up hoarding them until I got pissed off enough to take them to a charity shop.

I've tried a few Kindles but never been really happy with them until last year. My Mrs bought me a Kindle Scribe. It's the best e-book reader that I've used.

The screen on the older Kindles is too small. I speed-read, and effectively scan several words ahead of the words that my brain is processing. In portrait mode there are too few words per line on the older Kindles. In landscape mode, there are too few lines per page. They don't fit with my reading style.

The later Kindle Fires are a better size, but they're primarily a tablet (albeit a crap one) and their screens are too glossy and dim for reading outdoors in bright sunlight. And they're useless as a tablet because they're so f-ing slow! If I didn't use mine every day, I'd have to wait several minutes while it processed updates before I could use it. It was infuriating.

I've found that Scribe screen is big enough to read in portrait mode at a comfortable text size. The page size is closer to a standard paperback book.

It also has a larger margin on one side, so I can hold it with one hand without the heel and thumb of that hand obscuring the edge of the screen.

Added bonus is that you can write on it (hence the Scribe name), so it can be used as an electronic note pad. It has handwriting recognition and you can output the results to a file to send to your computer.

But the handwriting bit makes them expensive.