maggior;609041 Wrote: > My wife wishes I would do this since I got a Kindle for Christmas. The > problem is that there are a significant number of books that I have > that are not available in eBook format. It reminds me of when CDs > first came out - remember that period in the late 80's/early 90's where > you anxiously anticipated albums becoming available on CD for the first > time? > > This is off topic, but I love reading on my Kindle. I may never buy a > print book again (for novels at least). It's to books what the > Squeezebox is to music.
I got a Kobo for Christmas, which is a very nice, albeit limited, device. Unlike the Kindle, supports checking out ebooks from the library (ePub format with Adobe DRM). Good battery life, works very well. Doesn't really work very well, though, with combination of text and illustrations. Am reading a book now (Life Ascending by Nick Lane, a prize-winning popular science book), and it occasionally refers to an illustration, presumably one incorporated in the text at that point. This is not the case in the ePub format, suspect it's not the case in the Kindle's proprietary format either -- would be in the PDF versions, but then you wouldn't get the text flow options. Nice if they would get that fixed. On vacation at the moment, and I've been reading quite voraciously. The Kobo is great for this, very good resolution, easy to read and weighs almost nothing. However, I do like a really nice well-produced book. For the innumerable fiction-reads I go through, an eReader makes perfect sense. Less so for situations where the book itself (combination of content and production) is a beautiful work of art. As to storing my CDs, we have enough space I can store the boxes (and boxes and boxes) in the basement. However, new acquisition CDs (since I got the SB have taken over the old space where current CDs cluttered things up. Time for another box or two. Ron -- RonM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
