Having a Kindle means I'm reading many more books

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I’m reading many more books than I used to now that I have a Kindle. It’s partly because I have the Kindle app on my smartphone, which means that I can dip into a book at any time. It’s also because it’s just so easy to buy a book. Add to that the ability to download samples, which I’m beginning to find is irresistible. Having all my books in one place means that I’m now reading several books at one time.

All in all, it’s beginning to take over my life - not that I’m complaining. It’s a side effect I hadn’t anticipated.

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I’ve always had two or three books going at the same time. The Kindle just means I don’t have to schlep several pounds of paper with me. Just one thin e-reader.

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I like it. I’ve hummed and haah’ed about getting one. Thinking that I might get a tablet, can a smartphone do it all? is a netbook the right way to go?

I finally had a go with a friend’s and realised that it did everything I needed it to. The battery lasts forever, I can prop it up on the table and flip pages easily. It is easy to read in bed, On holiday I can get free 3G internet access (and seeing as I mainly read news, sports and forum sites it works fine) I can get RSS feeds and get newspapers and magazines pushed to it anywhere in the world.

For work I converted a load of powerpoint slides to pdf’s and used them to prepare for training sessions that I deliver.

I realise now that it fits perfectly with the way I consume written media.

So I am a happy bunny and to the OP, yes, I am reading more books. The only thing missing is support for my local library lending but I think that it is only a matter of time, I know in the US that is already happening now so I’d expect the UK to follow suit soon.

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you know you could have saved the money you spent on the kindle and have been reading on your smartphone all this time …

just sayin’

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No I couldn’t. My iPhone is way too small to read on comfortably. I have a Kindle DX for that reason. Nice and big, like a real book.

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For me personally the quality of the screen and better battery life was what move me away from a purely smartphone solution.

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I’ve got several books on my itouch, including a whole slew of Andre Norton novels i got for three bucks, but I haven’t read them much, because that small screen is a bitch. Either the type is unreadably tiny or the screen holds so little text you have to flip constantly. I made considerable progress in “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol. 1” on it, but that’s about it.

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My husband got me a Kindle for Mother’s Day and I’m adoring it! The only drawback is I can’t put my books from iBook on there. I have read books on my iPhone, but my eyes and I are aging, and the bifocals aren’t cutting it much anymore, so the size of the Kindle’s text is much better for me. One of my friend’s husbands got her a Nook for Mother’s Day, and the first time she synced it with her computer, it got a Trojan virus and she hasn’t been able to load even one thing on it. One more victory for Macs! (I already have 20 books and counting…in 4 days…)

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I don’t actually have a Kindle any more. I use the Kindle app mainly on my 5" Dell Streak, and on my laptop. I have no problems with the Streak, apart from the fact that it is slightly too reflective in bright sunshine. I found the Kindle was difficult to read in poor light, so they’re about equal (ignoring the other benefits of the Streak, like having everything else on it, so only needing one device).

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I keep 20 or so books on my Kindle at all times and I find that I tend to juggle my reading so that I am reading 5-10 of them at any given time.

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I find that’s true of my Nook too. I wanted the Nook because of the SSD card capabilities and I hated the little Kindle keyboard, but just having an E-reader is fantastic. I carry it with me everywhere. Being able to carry 500 books around in my purse is totally brilliant.

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I adore my kindle. I didn’t think I would like it as much as I do. Ditto to those who said that being able to carry lots of books around with you is wonderful. I’ve always been one to keep several books in play.

I ALWAYS put it in my purse when I leave the house. Once I left the house early in the morning to walk and didn’t bring it. When I was through walking, I had a flat tire. At the tire fixing place, all they had was Outdoor Life and Popular Mechanics!! ARGH! So now I never leave home without my kindle.

When I go to my bed at night, I carry to my bedroom my BlackBerry, my kindle, and my iPod (to listen to a guided meditation before bed). Hehe.

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I’m not reading more books, but I am reading better ones. I used to read whatever cheap used books I could get my hands on from junk sales or book swaps or library sales. Now I’m reading classics I’d missed out on that are available on Project Gutenburg and other sites. I’m reading pdfs of studies that researchers and scholars make available like The Strength of Weak Ties or The Authoritarians. The eye strain and awkwardness made reading those on my computer very unappealing, now I can take my kindle anywhere and read with ease.

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I agree with my friend silenus. I am reading about the same amount, but the milk crate full of books I carried around in my truck is now all on my SONY 505.

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I’m not reading more books either, but I think I will read more classics because they’re free and easy to get on the Kindle. This year I’ve read *Middlemarch *and Vanity Fair, and I have Jane Eyre queued up.