Kindle, Nook, or the real thing?

I have a Kindle 3G and I love it. Just this past week I bought at least 10 used books (put a couple on Paperbackswap), maybe more. So, it doesn’t keep me from wanting to “hold a book in my hands” or to buy more. Plus, there are plenty of books out there that will probably never be made in kindle format, or if they were, they wouldn’t quite be the same.

Certain picture books just wouldn’t work for me on my kindle, especially if there’s lots of pictures (I’m thinking geography and the such).

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I have a Kindle and love it. If I get a book in Kindle format my printed copy is given away to a new home. We even got a second Kindle (the cheapest one) for the kids to use. Of course I have 7 kids so we’ll eventually need more than that…LOL.

There are a few books I want in my hands. First and foremost – scriptures! It’s just not the same if I can’t easily flip back and forth following references in the footnotes.

I have a Nook Color.  I like it very much–I can get some magazines on it inexpensively that I cannot get otherwise for cost reasons.  I get The Old Schoolhouse on it in its new format.  I can follow several webzines I like from my living room instead of being stuck on the computer chair.  I have read a number of books on it, which I got free or almost no cost, and I do like that–I’ve been able to read some things on it that my library did not have and that I did not own.  If I had a choice of reading a real book or on my Nook, I’d pick the real book every single time, though.  I guess I’m like Robin and hopeless too.  🙂  I also don’t like reading Scriptures on my Nook as well.  I do occasionally use my Nook WITH my open scriptures and look up links and cross-references on my Nook instead of riffling pages, but I can’t live without my own marked-up scriptures.  So I do like my Nook.  It’s a useful ADJUNCT but for me will never totally replace The Real Thing. 

You know, it’s amazing (and sad, to me, but not to most, I guess.)  My oldest son is in college.  Much of their work is done on computers, their grades are posted on computer, their assignments are given on computer, ad nauseum.  On his first paper, he was required to use an internet source and cite it.  When he was looking up how to do that (I certainly had not taught him that) he came to me.  I said, “John you have to remember that when I was writing these papers, the internet didn’t EXIST!”  I’m not techy, at all, not on facebook, don’t know what a webinar is.  Just give me my books and I’ll be happy.  For me, Kindles have their place, and if I were a foreign missionary, I would love to own one.  I do have some old gems on mine that I haven’t been able to find a hard copy of, but I always get the book when I can.

I have a Kindle and love it.  I also have a lot of books and love them.  I use my Kindle for grabbing up the older public domain books for free (or very cheap) that would cost me TONS of money to buy.  For example, I have almost all the G.A. Henty books that I’ve paid nothing for….each of them starts at $20 used, if I’m lucky.  I still buy, read, and love new and used books, when I can find them.  But for older books you just can’t beat an ereader.  We’re a military family so having a large part of my library on my Kindle saves us a lot of weight and hassle when moving.  

I have a Nook Color, which I really love. But like suzukimom, there are some books that I prefer in paper format, but it’s hard to describe exactly which ones. Definitely anything I might want to make notes in. Even though I CAN do so on the Nook, I love the pencil to paper sound/feel. 🙂

I read so much and pretty fast though, it is very nice to have very many books in one place without the extra weight. And it’s nice to have the extra space in our very tiny house!

I have a Nook color as well.  I do like that I can change the brightness and sometimes the background for different lighting settings.  I don’t notice any eye difficulties at all unless I am tired which I would get with a real book too. However, the Color is backlit and not like the e-ink of the black and white e-readers.  It looks more like a computer screen. I don’t have an e-ink device but I have read where some people feel they get eye strain  on the backlit versions and not on the e-ink versions.  My Nook Color has been fine for me — I did put an anti-glare  screen protector on my Nook Color so that may have made some difference.

I have Android on an SD card so I am able to get the Kindle app and then I can get either Kindle books or Nook books. I really enjoy that.  But if it is a book that I need to page back and forth then I am all for the real thing.