Everyone slap on your helmets, grab your rifles, and dive into your foxholes, it’s a price war! Amazon has cut the price of its Kindle Read the full post.
Jun 22
2010
02:10 PM ET
Amazon, Barnes & Noble cut e-reader prices
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I wouldn’t buy one, but I wouldn’t object if I were given one.
I had just made up my mind to get a Nook and they dropped the price! Nice. Re the argument between paper and ebooks, I will still have hard copies of some special books but I am seriously running out of shelfspace. I have three tall bookshelves and two short ones. The paperbacks are lined up two deep, hardbacks one deep, and I don’t have much more room. I can store 1500 ebooks on a Nook, and more on portable media. I like the portability of the Nook since I travel a bit. There is room in my reading-heavy life for both hard copy and ebooks.
I love my kindle! I still buy my sookie stackhouse books in a hardcover form, but everything else is on my Kindle. I love it. So easy to use and the battery life is so long. I totally suggest it to anyone who is a big reader.
Only bad thing to come from it, is that i spend more $$ on books because it is so easy to get them.
Forget all these. Get the Aluratek E-Reader Pro. $159 Canadian and reads ALL formats with up to 32 GB of memory.
The ereaders are very enticing to me, but I need to read more of the actual books stacked on my bedside first. The only downside I see to the ereaders is that using one on airplanes means I’d have to turn it off once the plane’s door is shut until the announcement is made that approved electronic devices can be powered back on and then have to turn it back off when the electronic devices have to be shut off in preparation for landing. And I’m wondering whether the 3G and/or wi-fi models can be used inflight at all unless they have an “airplane mode” setting like I’ve heard smart phones have. I can keep on reading my magazine or book with little or no interruption. BTW, the article’s price comparison of the specific ereaders to the iPad seems like comparing apples to oranges since the iPad is much more than an ereader. If I’m going to buy one of these it will either be a nook or an iPad.
It does have an airplane mode.
good news and hookupbbw
I really want to get a Kindle or a Nook but am holding out because neither offers a color screen. Can anyone comment on that? Isn’t that problematic for magazines?