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Paper or Kindle?

Discussion in 'Books' started by gas, Jun 1, 2013.

  1. gas

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    If you're refering to online porn then I'm not too sure, I rarely watch it because we make our own home made stuff<ok>
     
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    I have taken on board the comments on this thread as the basic Kindle is now available for £60 but there are so many options, Paperweight version is £40 more then then prices go higher for the Fire version. And of course there are the options of only Wi-Fi or 3G as well mmmm
     
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    I bought a Nook Glow and it's superb, I would never get rid of my collection of books though, as has been ssaid they look great on shelves, especially faux leather bound hardbacks.
     
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    Had a basic Kindle for a couple of weeks or more now and it has opened a whole new world of books for me that I would probably never have read in their paper form. Amazon have many books for free or 99p and I have now tried several and have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the stories. The last one that I have just finished was a mild paranormal story called Long Time Coming written by someone called Edie Claire one of the freebies on offer, I thought it was quite good. I have signed up to the Amazon e-mail alerts for daily deals and now I'm hooked, you can download your books to the Kindle itself or any device that has the Kindle app, I still read the paper kind of book having bought a few at charity shops but the Kindle is certainly a convenient way to read. It also has the plus that it's one device that I have that doesn't require constant re-charging like my phone and tablet computer, you could say I'm pleased with my purchase.
     
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    I had a kindle and it just got on my nerves.
    Went back to paper and never looked back.
    A book can be dropped in the pool... then dried. A kindle can't.
    Trust me I'm clumsey... I've dropped a phone, passport, 500 dollars and a non waterproof watch in the pool... oh and dove headfirst into a shallow end once resulting in 6 stitches in a Turkish doctors..
     
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    Point taken Albert as still have quite a collection of books, the paper kind, that I have gathered and am loathed to get rid of. I also have 10 years worth of What Video magazines that I use to buy every month when video/cd's/dvd's/pda's and other electronic stuff were in their infancy. I followed all the developments of these electronic gadgets like the final victory of VHS over Betamax (Betamax was a superior system in my opinion), the brilliant Philips Video 2000 recorders with tapes that could be flipped over like music cassettes. The Philips video disk systems LP size discs with superb picture quality, quaint by today's standards of course but none the less interesting to pick out magazines and read them over again, the only trouble is my wife isn't too keen on the 'junk' I am gathering and taking up space, sigh :(
     
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