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SWMBO is after one of these for her birthday. What I would like to know is...............can you leave a "bookmark" in different e-books. So that I could pick it up and read my e-book from where I last was? And she could do the same with her e-book? Does anybody know?
I'd also like to know folks opinions on these machines.
 
Yeah, my mum has a kindle and she loves it. I'm pretty sure every book opens from the page you leftit on.
 
Does it automaticaly, if you go off and read another book and then go back to a previuos book it will be on the page you left it on.
 
I've had mine for a year now and love it! It's especially great for holiday weight restrictions as I normally take at least 3 books per week!
 
My name is Stew and I'm a gadget addict. And I think my Kindle is the best thing I've bought in maybe five years or more. It's encouraged me to read a lot more. I have bought most of my technical (work) books for it, so it's a lot easier than dragging my library between clients. I have bought both fiction and non fiction for when I travel (read 7+ books on this trip to Poland so far).

I wish I'd bought the 3G version as I can't always find a wifi hotspot to get my books, but apart from that...

Buy one...buy two!
 
That's my favourite Kindle feature. I currently have 5-6 books on the go on my Kindle. I love being able to pick any on a whim and resume straight form where I left off. I do the same with real books as well, have something like 20 bookmarks spread between different novels and reference books, so I can dip in and out.
 
I'm not sure I'll get one any time soon but if it encourages people who don't normally read then it can only be a good thing (I've lost count of the number of barely literate colleagues and bosses I've worked with, many with degrees - it's embarrassing).
 
squizza said:
I would love one but think I would miss the smell of a book. :)
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Get one :D You don't have to buy every book on it, I still buy paper books as well as downloaded ones.

It's extremely convenient for some things, for example finishing the first book in a series and being able to start the next with a few clicks in a browser and a few second wait. Additionally, at least one publisher (Gollancz) is converting their back catalogue of out of print books to ebook form so they can be sold again without needing a print run.

Also dangerously easy to spend money ;)
 
Whilst having massive reservations about what ebooks will do for the future of both writing and publishing, I bought a Kindle the other day and it is rather good indeed.

Certainly the e-ink technology is streets ahead of other types of displays for natural reading - whilst I read plenty of documentation all day and every day on a computer screen, thats not something I'd want to do for pleasure.

No, with my Kindle I have a direct analogy to a small paperback format book and the battery life is so massive that you really don't feel like its a piece of technology, it is just a book.

I read so many books that this is really a great piece of kit, but I will miss bookshops when they die...and die they will...because of me :(
 
Mat D said:
love my kindle - it does its one job perfectly
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and thats exactly right, don't expect it to be anything else something to read books on and you'll love it, i do mine, it goes everywhere with me, and i nearly had a fit when the battery died on me the other week coming back from London. (not charged it for ages)
 
I bought one a few weeks ago and i really like it! Loads of free books, although a lot of those are not that great. Nevertheless a great device, easy to read and being able to download a chapter of a prospective book is great.
 
Got one 2 xmases ago and love it. I have problems with my hands and struggle to hold a book for very long so had stopped reading books. With the kindle, it's much easier to hold and I can also lie it flat on a desk/table or use the case as a stand.

Also, I love being able to sync between the Kindle and the iphone. Very handy if I'm out without the Kindle and find myself waiting around, I always have my book with me.
 
I got one for Christmas 2010 from my children who said they couldn't think of anything else to buy for me even though I didn't want one. I was hooked by the end of the holidays not bought any real books for well over a year now and I have tried new genres and authors at FOC or 86p per book it's saved me a load of dosh too. I am rarely without it, it's been on two holidays where I would have had to nick space in hubby's bag for my pile of books now it just gets loaded before or during the trip. And yes you can bookmark loads of books at the same time, however buy two if you think you might need to use it, don't even think about sharing one you will probably end up divorced LOL
 
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