Dusty Chalk Posted December 19, 2010 Report Posted December 19, 2010 No! That's exactly what they want you to think.
jinp6301 Posted December 22, 2010 Report Posted December 22, 2010 http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/21/is-your-cover-crashing-your-kindle-3/ so uhh what other cases are good for the new kindle?
blessingx Posted December 22, 2010 Report Posted December 22, 2010 My Franklin case plastic hooks lasted three days. I just go commando with Timbuktu sleeve when transporting now.
Salt Peanuts Posted December 22, 2010 Report Posted December 22, 2010 I've had the cover w/ light for as long as I've had my Kindle and I've never had issues. I agree with Reks, it's a great case. Via Tapatalk
HeadphoneAddict Posted December 27, 2010 Report Posted December 27, 2010 I bought the wife a Nook Color for this Xmas. While she liked the nook from last Xmas she didn't like the lack of a backlight, and she's been reading nook books on her iPhone for the past few months. Old habits die hard and after reading on the iPhone for so long whenever she goes back to the old nook she keeps trying to tap on the B&W screen or pinch to zoom. And with her aging eyes she has the text on the iPhone so big that there's maybe only 30-40 words on a page, which means a lot of page turns. She really needs a bigger screen. I played with the Nook Color at Best Buy and I think it's perfect for her - it's fairly speedy and the display is as good as my iPad for reading books. Plus she doesn't want or need an iPad and this costs half as much. We'll likely hang onto the original nook, but I'm pretty sure she'll take to the new one like a duck to water. Well, the wifey returned the Nook Color without opening it to try it out, because she's perfectly happy with reading on the iPhone and not having to carry around a second device for books. She says if she really needs a bigger screen then she'll just use the B&W nook that we already have (with a case that has a built-in light). We then went out and bought her some nice clothes that she can wear to work, using the refund. Sigh.... Why do women have to be so practical?
Salt Peanuts Posted December 27, 2010 Report Posted December 27, 2010 that certainly isn't my experience.
morphsci Posted December 27, 2010 Report Posted December 27, 2010 I would use the term "selectively practical".
Dusty Chalk Posted December 27, 2010 Report Posted December 27, 2010 I would use the term "selectively practical".Well that's not very...oh.
blessingx Posted January 2, 2011 Report Posted January 2, 2011 Good-bye Borders and Kobo... Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era | Electronista
Salt Peanuts Posted January 2, 2011 Report Posted January 2, 2011 Amazon.com Help: Lending Kindle Books
guzziguy Posted January 2, 2011 Report Posted January 2, 2011 Good-bye Borders and Kobo... Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era | Electronista The Borders in SB is shutting its doors. It's not only e-books, but online music and video that has hurt Borders. The SB Borders has 3 floors (it's in an old bank building). Not too many years ago, the entire third floor was taken up by CDs and DVDs. Recently, maybe a quarter of the third floor had these products. Borders just never learned how to survive/thrive in the new book/music/video paradigm.
Tyll Hertsens Posted January 2, 2011 Report Posted January 2, 2011 Not sure how many have, really. Apple? Amazon?
blessingx Posted January 2, 2011 Report Posted January 2, 2011 Not sure how many have, really. Apple? Amazon? Fingers crossed a few indies (Powells, Keplers, Green Apple, The Strand, etc.) will be helped with Googles eBook program, but we'll see. May be wishful thinking.
Salt Peanuts Posted January 2, 2011 Report Posted January 2, 2011 Good-bye Borders and Kobo... Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era | Electronista I wonder how long before B&N follows suit. Actually, wasn't B&N trying to get rid of their physical stores a while back?
HeadphoneAddict Posted January 3, 2011 Report Posted January 3, 2011 End Of Days For Bookstores? Not If They Can Help It : NPR
blessingx Posted February 16, 2011 Report Posted February 16, 2011 New sharing service - Lendle. http://lendle.me/
blessingx Posted April 12, 2011 Report Posted April 12, 2011 (edited) For those wanting to save a few bucks. Not much of a discount though. Amazon releases ad-supported Kindle http://j.mp/ex4QRA Edited April 12, 2011 by blessingx
grawk Posted April 12, 2011 Report Posted April 12, 2011 If it were the 3g one, I'd do it, but not for a $20 savings...
Craig Sawyers Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 I've just bought one (with 3G, and natty case with light). I am totally smitten with it - what a bewilderingly marvellous product. Just stuffed on the complete works of Dickens. Next it's Trollope and Hardy.
grawk Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 I'm wishing I'd gotten the nook now, my library does epub lending.
HeadphoneAddict Posted April 17, 2011 Report Posted April 17, 2011 I'm wishing I'd gotten the nook now, my library does epub lending. I like the nook for that as well. But if you have an iPhone, Touch or iPad that you can download epub docs from the library's web site, if they offer that service. For Library books you need something like OverDrive Media Console to read the Adobe ePub ebooks from the library website. That's what my local library uses.
grawk Posted April 17, 2011 Report Posted April 17, 2011 Yes, I currently use my ipad for reading books borrowed from my library, using overdrive. I'd prefer to read it on my kindle, tho, generally. It's not the end of the world, just a preference.
blessingx Posted April 22, 2011 Report Posted April 22, 2011 Lots like the problem may be solved shortly: Kindle readers can soon borrow ebooks from libraries | Books | guardian.co.uk http://j.mp/e3s3sx
blessingx Posted May 16, 2011 Report Posted May 16, 2011 Cool, Long Form-lite like service (especially good for 3rd gen users)... http://delivereads.com/
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