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Mavis says I have to get myself one of these here e-readers so am thinking of asking ole sooty paws himself for one.
I do have some questions though can you buy current chart paperbacks in this form? What is the best type of one to get?
Mavis says I have to get myself one of these here e-readers so am thinking of asking ole sooty paws himself for one.
I do have some questions though can you buy current chart paperbacks in this form? What is the best type of one to get?
You can get current paperbacks and that's when the price seems to come down. When a book is first published in hardback at say £12-15, the e-book may well be £8-10. However, when it's published some months later in paperback, the e-book price comes down to a similar proportion of the price,maybe £4-6.
Don't hold me to the prices by the way, they vary but you get the point.
I went for the Kindle because of the wi-fi and 3G. You buy a book from Amazon, just one click if you've set up your account, and a minute or two later it's on your Kindle as if by magic! No plugging in to a computer, you can buy a book whilst lying on the beach and have it on the reader immediately.
You're tied to Amazon but for me that isn't a problem.
I'm not claiming that the Kindle is better than the Sony or any other, they all have their advantages. I weighed it up and went for the Kindle, others like the Sony.
Do you get similar offers for e-books as you get for paperbacks? Like Tesco's BOGOF or Asda 3 for £10 and such like.
It doesn't seem to me to have quite the same feeling as going into book shop and browsing around reading the back covers. Is there a facility like that before you buy an e-book?
Once you have read it what do you do with it? Do you delete it? How many books can one of these things store?
The Kindle will store 3500 books. The archive system is brilliant! When you delete a book that you've read it just keeps the title in an archive folder on your reader. If you decide that you want to bring it back you go into the archive and click on the book and it is immediately downloaded from your archive folder on Amazon's site. You never lose a book even if you delete it on your Kindle.
With storage for 3500 books though there's really no need to delete anything. You can set up categories on your reader, such as Thrillers, Biographies etc. so you could, if you wish, set up a category called 'Finished' and move books that you've read into that.
You can get special offers and many classics are actually free.
They are brilliant to read, just like reading a normal page, with the advantage that you can alter the text size to make it much easier to read. When I go to bed I'll switch on my Kindle and it will take me to the last page that I read of the latest John le Carré novel that I'm currently reading, even if I've also read another book in the meantime.
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Do you get similar offers for e-books as you get for paperbacks? Like Tesco's BOGOF or Asda 3 for £10 and such like.
It doesn't seem to me to have quite the same feeling as going into book shop and browsing around reading the back covers. Is there a facility like that before you buy an e-book?
Once you have read it what do you do with it? Do you delete it? How many books can one of these things store?
Sorry so many questions.
I can only answer for Kindle on Amazon (perhaps a Sony owner could give you the answers for a Sony device)
Do you get similar offers for e-books as you get for paperbacks?
Yes. For example the Larson 'Girl with' books are £2.40 to £2.70 each. Most popular books seem to be around 1/2 price of less. There are 100s of thousands of free books on Amazon. Popular classics, for example - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a top 'seller' on Amazon, and its free.
It doesn't seem to me to have quite the same feeling as going into book shop and browsing around reading the back covers. Is there a facility like that before you buy an e-book?
Yes. With the Kindle you can download a sample, instantly for free. (Well it takes maybe 30 seconds). If you like it click again to buy, otherwise delete it.
Once you have read it what do you do with it? Do you delete it? How many books can one of these things store?
You can leave it on your Kindle, or delete it. But it is stored on Amazon for you and you can download it again for free if you want to. The Kindle holds up to 3,500 books.
With a Kindle you don't need to connect to a computer. It downloads using WiFi or (free) 3G
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