Electronic device for reading books?

I LOVE our Kindle.  I’ve had it about 3 weeks now and use it daily.  I’ve read for hours at a time with no eye-strain.  One thing I discovered that I love about it that I didn’t realize would be a plus is being able to prop it up on my legs or a pillow and not having to hold it open with my hands.  I could never do this with a book that would close on it’s own. I have the non-lighted cover, and we use a booklight if we need it.

I can’t tell you how thrilling it is to go somewhere and know that I’ve got over a hunderd books (so far) in my purse. LOL The “collections” feature has made organizing the books easy.

I just downloaded nearly all the books listed for Ambleside Online years 1 and 3.5 – in the past I’ve had to print any books like this.  Amazon offers free promotional books and there are new ones offered all the time.

Queenmum, there are plenty of other places besides Amazon where you can get Kindle books.  Gutenburg now offers many of their books in Kindle format, there’s also a place called manybooks.net.  And there is a program called Calibre that I have not used, but is supposed to be good for converting books.  I use Open Office to make my own pdf’s the size of the kindle screen when I can’t find a book in Kindle format – like those from mainlesson.com.  This does take a little time, but it’s still free.

We bought a bible for the kindle that has a great search feature so we can instantly “turn” to any verse we think of.  I must admit when I want to just read the bible that I still go for the actual book.  Can’t beat the krinkle of onion skin paper.

At any rate, I’m very pleased with the Kindle and I can see, when the price comes down even more, that we will get another.  Right now we are sharing just one. 

For our family, there was no need to even compare the Kindle and the iPad.  I would never be able to spend that amount of money on something like that and all I wanted was an e-reader with e-ink anyway.

Found it – EPub.  Thanks again for the Project Gutenberg link!!