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03-19-2009, 11:51 AM
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| \m/   Join Date: Feb 2004 Age: 40
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| Digital book reader The news of Sony teaming up with Google to provide over 500,000 public domain books has me thinking of getting a Sony Reader. I know there's Kindle too, anyone have one of these things? Any thoughts on these digital book readers? |
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03-19-2009, 12:10 PM
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| Eternally Legendary   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Age: 33
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| Re: Digital book reader This is awesome news...I've been thinking about getting a Kindle 2 but at $360 plus the price of books I've been holding out.
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03-19-2009, 12:13 PM
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| Franchise Player  Join Date: Aug 2005
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| Re: Digital book reader Had a kindle and sold it. To me part of reading a book is the actual book the feel of it the look etc... Holding the Kindle was weird also. There are so many great books out there and they are free at your local libary just sign up for the waiting list. My aunt is also a big reader and she loves the kindle, so each is own.
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03-19-2009, 12:14 PM
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| Re: Digital book reader Quote:
Yeah I was thinking of the Kindle too but this news has me thinking Sony now. Plus it's cheaper. | |
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03-19-2009, 12:21 PM
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| Mad Men   Join Date: Feb 2004
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| Re: Digital book reader This is interesting AFP: Discovery sues Amazon's Kindle I've wanted a Kindle for a couple of years because I love to read, but really it would have only made sense if I took the train into work. When I'm sitting at home reading, to mredskins point, there's something about the feel of an actual book. Plus, my wife said all the people she sees using Kindles on the train are senior citizens so she thinks it's for old people (but that's just her opinion, of course)
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03-19-2009, 12:34 PM
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| Re: Digital book reader Also, the kindle is not backlite. you may say for $350 I can't read it in the dark? The thing is the screen has the same "feel" as reading paper has to your eyes. You really have to experience it but apparently a backlight screen when trying to read a novel will give you a headache or strain your eyes. This was a plus for me but I still ended up selling it. It is a cool toll for the right person, espically if you want to read a bunch of diffrent news papers but cnn.com works fine for me. OH YEAH! And a download of a book is the same damn price as the actual book, what the F!
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03-19-2009, 12:54 PM
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| Swearinger  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Washington, DC Age: 34
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03-19-2009, 02:46 PM
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| Playmaker  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Manassas Age: 42
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| Re: Digital book reader
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03-19-2009, 03:22 PM
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| Re: Digital book reader Quote:
Looks Kindle is still the better deal.
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03-19-2009, 03:48 PM
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| \m/ Join Date: Feb 2004 Age: 40
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| Re: Digital book reader Those prices aren't up to date. You can get the Sony for $299 now. |
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03-19-2009, 03:51 PM
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| Re: Digital book reader Quote:
Oh ok. I still pass.
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03-19-2009, 04:06 PM
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| Gamebreaker  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: PA Age: 33
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| Re: Digital book reader Actually, staff in my library ordered some kindles from Amazon as an experiment and hated them.
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03-24-2009, 09:17 PM
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| Gamebreaker  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Waldorf, MD Age: 29
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| Re: Digital book reader Google, a fan of open source (well other than their search algorithms), teams up with a company that insists on their own proprietary technologies.. interesting I'd eventually like to get a reader myself, but I haven't been a fan of any of them so far |
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