Kindle

pollypenny

I enjoy my Kindle, although i still love books.

eReaderIQ.co.uk has a link to Amazon, they will e-mail you every day with the latest free books.

I've discovered some good ones - often the first book will be free then sunsequent ones in a series will be charged for.

Reading a brilliant funny one about teaching English in Japan at moment. (For Fukui's Sake by Sam Baldwin).

Discovered good thriller writers Tim Vicary and Dana Stabenow.

kingfisherblue

pollypenny wrote: »

I enjoy my Kindle, although i still love books.

eReaderIQ.co.uk has a link to Amazon, they will e-mail you every day with the latest free books.

I've discovered some good ones - often the first book will be free then sunsequent ones in a series will be charged for.

Reading a brilliant funny one about teaching English in Japan at moment. (For Fukui's Sake by Sam Baldwin).

Discovered good thriller writers Tim Vicary and Dana Stabenow.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

I haven't paid for a single book for my Kindle yet, and I have over 1000 to read

My first Kindle kept freezing and when I contacted Amazon, they rang me back straight away. Within minutes, they had arranged to have a new Kindle sent to me and details of how to send my original one back - at no cost to me.

I also love the fact that you can change the font size.

barbarawright

And of course, the greatest advantage of all - you can read !!!!!! on the bus and nobody knows... :rotfl:

pinkclouds

barbarawright wrote: »

And of course, the greatest advantage of all - you can read !!!!!! on the bus and nobody knows... :rotfl:

Or children's books! I have a few of my childhood favourites on my Kindle. Kindles are very liberating.

LondonDiva

Rereading Diana Wynne Jones at the moment

pattycake

I got my Kindle so I can take it on holiday. The airlines are so red hot on excess luggage these days I was having to sacrifice shoes so I could take 6 paperbacks with me.

Since I have got the Kindle I can pack stuff to my hearts' content:) On a recent trip to Egypt, I put around 100 free books on the Kindle. Some were dross but I just did not bother with those. I found plenty of others to entertain me whilst I was lying by the swimming pool.

I too like the fact that I can change the font size. When I am tired or not wearing my newest glasses, I can increase the size. I think the Kindle is excellent.

Barneysmom

pinkclouds wrote: »

Or children's books! I have a few of my childhood favourites on my Kindle. Kindles are very liberating.

Me too! I've got 5 Moomins books

Sazzarella

Barneysmom wrote: »

ETA: I forgot to say, the Kindle has speech too, so you can lie in the bath or in bed and it'll read the story to you

That is amazing! My bf keeps asking if im wanting one and ive been putting it off but would probably want one for that feature alone!

rosie383

Sazzarella wrote: »

That is amazing! My bf keeps asking if im wanting one and ive been putting it off but would probably want one for that feature alone!

It's fine if you want a robotic voice reading in a monotone! Sounds like the voice that reads out a text message sent to a landline!

Have to say I love my Kindle.I, like others, got it because I usually am trying to find luggage space for as many books as poss. I have well over 1200 books, none of which I have paid for. I love that you can get a free sample of a book, useful if it's not a free book. As for books being free only if they are old books, not true. I even got a Lee Child book one day and have read books by authors I would never have picked out in the library. I get a daily email from ereaderiq which takes me just a few mins to browse through, rather than going on Amazon's site and spending too much time.
There are lots of truly awful books too, with unbelievably bad grammar and spelling, but anything is worth a try if it's free.