12 Days of Kindle

scottish_stresshead

OO fab post! My hubby got me the wi-fi 3g keyboard Kindle and i love it! I've read 2 books already..so easy to read and addictive!!

I really want Cecelia Ahern books but at the mo they cost just about the same as paperbacks!

Doc_N

Pound wrote: »

I have the Kindle app for my IPad and I think that's just as good as the Kindle.

Believe me, it isn't.

pink-lady

scottish_stresshead wrote: »

OO fab post! My hubby got me the wi-fi 3g keyboard Kindle and i love it! I've read 2 books already..so easy to read and addictive!!

I really want Cecelia Ahern books but at the mo they cost just about the same as paperbacks!

I noticed that too with the Cecelia Ahern books!

Libretia*

Pound wrote: »

I have the Kindle app for my IPad and I think that's just as good as the Kindle. I'm finding this reading lark quite addictive.

i agree. If it were a toss up between an ipad that becomes a kindle as just one of its many features, or a kindle, i choose the ipad everytime. My mum loves her kindle to bits, but when she used kindle on my ipad she thought it was brilliant and mighty impressed.....so much so she asked me how much ipads cost...:rotfl:

Kindles are fab, no doubt about it, not knocking them, but i love my ipad :j

hesjane

I have kindle for PC - just use my laptop as a kindle. Why buy another gadget when the one I have will do the job? I agree it is not as portable as a kindle, but then I also have the kindle app on my iphone (but find I hardly use that, whereas I use the kindle for PC regularly).

CelticStar

Libretia* wrote: »

i agree. If it were a toss up between an ipad that becomes a kindle as just one of its many features, or a kindle, i choose the ipad everytime. My mum loves her kindle to bits, but when she used kindle on my ipad she thought it was brilliant and mighty impressed.....so much so she asked me how much ipads cost...:rotfl:

Kindles are fab, no doubt about it, not knocking them, but i love my ipad :j

Kindles are deliberately not backlit so they don't strain the eyes in the way a backlit screen (ie one on a laptop or ipad) will. In the long-term you are better off reading a Kindle than a backlit screen.

Doc_N

CelticStar wrote: »

Kindles are deliberately not backlit so they don't strain the eyes in the way a backlit screen (ie one on a laptop or ipad) will. In the long-term you are better off reading a Kindle than a backlit screen.

Absolutely. There's very little eye strain with a Kindle, because it uses E Ink, which makes reading the display much like reading paper. That's not the case with anything (like an iPad) backlit. The two experiences are completely different, as anyone who's tried both will tell you.

The Kindle also has a hugely better battery life because it uses power only when a page is 'turned' and not when it's displayed.

gunsandbanjos

Doc_N wrote: »

Believe me, it isn't.

I think it is:D I have the kindle app and its fabulous.

My mum has a kindle and an ipad with the kindle app and she says they are much the same. Plus they synch with each other as she has the same books on both devices.

s4mmy

hesjane wrote: »

I have kindle for PC - just use my laptop as a kindle. Why buy another gadget when the one I have will do the job? I agree it is not as portable as a kindle, but then I also have the kindle app on my iphone (but find I hardly use that, whereas I use the kindle for PC regularly).

Sorry I'm a bit of a technophobe.......please will you explain how this works as I really wanted a kindle but sadly santa forgot!

hesjane

s4mmy wrote: »

Sorry I'm a bit of a technophobe.......please will you explain how this works as I really wanted a kindle but sadly santa forgot!

Hi

Just click on the download link for Kindle for PC on Amazon and install on your PC and you then have the kindle software on your PC. Then all you need to do is go to Amazon and select your books. There are loads of free books on Amazon if you want to try and check it works ok first.

Good luck and enjoy instant books:beer: