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joiwind:
I haven't been around here much lately, well I've been lurking, or should I say, loitering with intent, conscientiously skirting the most delicate current discussions into which I wouldn't let myself drag me screaming, let alone allow anyone else to, because I finally got round to girding up my loins and for the First Time venture out into the Perilous Land of Ereaders.
And I'm loving it, spending hours setting up calibre, downloading old favourites and discovering new ones, going through the forums (on one well-known forum there are vast possibilities for bored programmers who could try their hand on the firmware ... hint, hint) and ... reading - I can't say whether it's just the novelty of the thing but I'm reading much, much more than I had been in recent months.
I had hesitated for a long time over taking the plunge - listening to all the arguments, the pro's and con's, - but now I'm convinced and converted ;D
Renegade:
Which one did you get? What pushed you toward it?
joiwind:
Hi Renegade : I got the Kobo Glo - not too locked-down like some are - good specs and much used here in Frenchland - apparently Kobo has 50% "market share" which is saying something (about market shares) .
cranioscopical:
I couldn't see myself using an e-reader — thought I'd miss the whole experience of appreciating paper, fonts, page design etc. That was rubbish. My son-in-law gave me a Kobo which I embraced almost immediately. Some months later I tried Cool Reader on my Android phone (of all things). Now I seldom read from any other medium. I still have some treasured printed books to enjoy but for casual reading it's the phone every time. I'm still slightly astonished by this.
40hz:
^Doesn't surprise me too much. My GF was a devote paper advocate until she bought a Nook more for the web browser than anything else.
I think she's since bought and read more books in the last six months than she has in the last two years. She loves the thing.
Our pile of old magazines and newspapers has also diminished drastically since she now gets most periodicals she regularly reads through it as well.
Whoda thunk?
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