eReaders

[sleigh]

‎"Crystal Memory" is now live at the Apple iBooks store, so those of you with iPads can now get it. Also had the first Nook sale of the book yesterday. Woo-hoo! Still, Amazon is obviously the Big Dog with ebooks -- at least in my limited experience.

I'm curious as to the eReader preferences of the LJ folks -- so here's a poll:

[Poll #1771174]

Comments

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

...although I think the gratuitous Yuck! was more than a little over the top...

[slaynsoul.livejournal.com]

I read from a kobo myself tho I haven't been super enthused with their monetary conversion fees. Their ereader is pretty nice tho. Especially their new touch eink screen.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

How about "Ick!"? :=)

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen their eReader -- though I hear Kobobooks mentioned fairly often. My books are there also, but I haven't seen many sales from them.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I read e-books but I prefer paper books in most cases.

[slaynsoul.livejournal.com]

I bought The Woods there. But I haven't been buying too many books lately. Stupid expensive college tuition…

I have so many paper books....

[isfdb.livejournal.com]

...that I'm not going to switch to pure e-readers any time soon. I have a Kindle, and appreciate that it is a very good device, but so far it's not worth buying replacement books for.

I lost some e-pubs a couple of smart-phones ago and really don't value them as highly as physical ones. There's additional problems in the UK where the ebooks have VAT (sales tax) applied to them and paper ones don't - and ebooks have no resale value.

I'll catch up eventually, I'm sure. Just not yet.

[slweippert.livejournal.com]

Wasn't interested in ebooks until I got a kindle to get college textbooks cheap, they're cheaper in kindle version, and I found I liked it so much I do most of my reading on it. The "electronic ink" stuff looks almost like a printed page and has never given me eye-strain. I can get books, magazines and even my local newspaper which is just cool, and convenient. The reading material is cheaper too.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Ah, so *you're* the one who bought THE WOODS on Kobobooks! :-) Just kidding, but it's true that thus far I've seen very few sales there.

Yeah, I understand how expensive college can be, alas!

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Me too, actually -- though other than my iPhone, I don't have a platform on which to read ebooks, so I really haven't given them a chance.

Re: I have so many paper books....

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Ugh -- didn't know about the VAT in the UK. That's certainly a disincentive.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Denise (my spouse) got a Nook and likes it quite a lot, though she still reads a fair number of printed books.

[aerohudson.livejournal.com]

I use the iPad which also allows me to us the Nook, Kindle and iBooks apps. I prefer the Nook app due to it's more robust features. Having access to all three also allows me to take advantage of deal unique to each store front.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Good point -- the iPad does allow you to use whichever store you wish. Do you find the backlit display to be a problem at all?

[aerohudson.livejournal.com]

Not yet. I've used the iPad for about a year now with no trouble. iBooks only has a few options for viewing settings such as B&W, Sepia, etc. The Nook has many more settings including a NightLight view which has a black background with white letters which is easy on the eyes. The Kindle app has a similar view but with far fewer viewing options.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

iPhones are too small to read on as far as I'm concerned.

I got a Kindle because my brother was buying himself a new one each time they came out with one when he worked for Amazon, so he had a couple of extras and offered one to me when I visited him last fall. I wouldn't have bought it for myself, but free was the right price. It is a nice device and is reasonably convenient to read on as long as there's some light to read by. So far the books I've gotten for it have either been free or they've been books I couldn't reasonably get paper copies of.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

"Free" is an excellent price, I agree. :-)

I've read a few books on my iPhone. It's OK, but just OK -- it's no substitute for having a genuine printed book or a dedicated eReader of seem sort, IMO

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

I have a sony because I didn't want to mess with format problems and walled gardens, it worked with the library books, and it hit my price target earlier this year. I love paper books, and still prefer them for home reading, but carrying this around with me on vacation and to work every day is easier.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me. I believe my editor at DAW uses a Sony reader.

[jonhansen.livejournal.com]

Put my vote in for the smartphone/Kindle, but technically it's an iPad. Close enuf, I s'pose.