Kindles are far better at taking notes on your books than paper. The notes are backed up so you'll never lose them, and easy to search, copy and paste, share, etc.

By the way, Kindle supports epub if you transfer them with a cable and do a few other very easy things. But I also think the Nook is great. If I didn't already have one, I'd be torn. Kindle comes out ahead on number of books available and how many free books are available, and it's lighter; but that color screen on the Nook is nice, and it has a few other UI advantages.


T1 is more about being rock-solid since it's geared towards businesses, so it's near zero downtime and constant monitoring and support. It's also faster on the upstream so it beats your Comcast if you want to host a server. But for consumers at home like you and me, cable or DSL blows T1 away, and at a fraction of the cost.

How does the Kindle come out ahead on free books - does Amazon do free book promotions? Because as I said nook owners have every public domain epub offering (easily), plus B&N gives away a free book every Friday.

Uh, it just comes out to more, at least when I counted, that's all. All the sources everyone else has, and then a few thousand more books in various places.

When I can go to my local library and check out ebooks, I'll think about picking up an e-reader. I haven't bought a book in ages, other than Towers of Midnight because I was already at the store, just got paid, and didn't feel like waiting for the hold list to thin out. ILL for the win.

Rave for game night! Clue! Apples to Apples (which I don't really like, but hey)! Settlers of Catan! And lots of treats and all that aetherbread I've been baking!

The four pocketwatches I ordered have now arrived.

Shibby.

I just use iBooks (used to use Stanza) on my iPod Touch to read my ebooks. I'd love to have a Kindle/Nook/ebook-reader, but the fact that they don't fit in my pocket is a major negative.

There's a nook app (probably a kindle one too) that lets you read your books on ipod/iphone/ipad.

There's an app for that.

I can check out ebooks through my library at home. Just found out about it last week, though apparently its been around a while. Sure you can't?

Can I ILL a doctoral thesis from an academic library in Kansas and read it on my ereader?

Score.

Got permission from a Spanish fansub group to use their original translations and turn them into English.

Hey, it's easier than moonrunes.

Score! After my last failure with cooking (overdone pasta ftw) I have been demoted to blueberry muffins. And I believe they are delicious. Hooray for microwave cooks improving!

If it's available online in any electronic form, probably a heck of a lot faster and easier than you can do it with the paper stuff. Moving data over long distances faster and being able to have more copies of it available is definitely one of the strong suits for ereaders, not a weakness.

If it was available online from a non-subscription database, I wouldn't be using the library in the first place.

So your reason for not wanting an ereader is that there are still books that aren't digitized? I'm sure that's why you also don't have an MP3 player or even an 8-track player, since there are still wax cylinders in Edison's museum.

I too once resisted E-readers. But then I realized I was being silly, so if I can make my life easier AND be ecologically friendly at the same time, why shouldn't I?

No, I'm just saying I wouldn't ever use one. If I wanted a bunch of free public domain books, I'd read them online or on my iPhone. Everything else I use my library for and prefer it that way. If I bought books, it might be a different story, but there's hardly ever any reason to unless you're impatient or need really niche things that are hard to get hold of.

I buy books because I like having them to read over again, I can loan them to friends, and by buying the book, I'm helping to support (in a small way) the authors who write them so that they can continue to write more.

Well, sure. And if I had more room and my own place, I'd probably stock a library.

And really, that brings up another fail point to eReaders, the lack of actual ownership of the book, unless they've gone and made one where you can resell the book you bought.