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Location: Displaced Iowegian | I will preface this by saying that my hubby is a voracious reader and I am getting tired of paperback books laying around the house. I am thinking of buying an "electronic device" of some sort to download ebooks, borrow books from the library, etc.....
What do you have?
What all can you do with your Kindles?
Buy just a reader like the Kindle "paperwhite" or would he be happier with a Kindle Fire?
What would you all recommend???????
Do you have to have wi-fi? I am on cable internet but can buy a wi-fi router if needed.
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Location: NC | I have a kindle paperwhite. You can only really read on it. You can go on internet but its a pain. But if i want to see something on internet i usually have smart phone or laptop around. I love mine. You need to be connected to wifi to download books but once they are loaded you can read them anywhere. I actually rent books thru the library's website. (i do buy them from amazon as well but renting is cheaper as long as they have it.)
We donated 3 plastic boxes of paperbacks to the library so wanted something that was easier. I still read paperbacks though if i want to remember an old book or something. |
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Location: between here and there | I don't have one (yet) but I talked to a friend of mine that reads all the time. She just got the Kindle paperwhite and she loves it. It has the light on the screen which she says really helps if you read in bed or not wanting to turn on another light. I saw them on Amazon for 120, I believe. Sorry, that's all I have to offer! |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I have a Kindle Fire. You don't have to be on Wi-Fi to read books you've already downloaded. I like the fire with the exception that it doesn't support some Android apps, like YouTube or Google. But if he is primarily reading then a Kindle would be great. I read all the time and I love the fact that I don't have a million books. There is a Kindle lending library that you can borrow books from the library for free, and there are a lot of books that are free to download as well. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | wimpyb - 2014-11-28 11:12 AM I don't have one (yet) but I talked to a friend of mine that reads all the time. She just got the Kindle paperwhite and she loves it. It has the light on the screen which she says really helps if you read in bed or not wanting to turn on another light. I saw them on Amazon for 120, I believe. Sorry, that's all I have to offer!
I just looked this morning and the Kindle Paperwhite was on sale for $99 on Amazon. |
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Location: MN | I have an iPad and LOVE IT!!! I read a lot sometimes 3 books a week. My iPad is wifi only but once you down load the book you can read it anywhere. I have no problem reading on with using the adjustable light control. I can turn my phone into a hotspot and go on the Internet.
I use overdrive to download books from a public library. You have to get a library card from the library to download books.
Our printer is wireless and I can send things from my iPad to the printer. I got a good cover that holds my iPad. It has heavy duty corner that has protected it when I have dropped it. It is black leather with a swivel cover.
I have games on it that I can play and a nice camera.
Love my iPad. |
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Location: Central Montana | Have a Kindle Fire and really like it. Have used it for reading and to access the internet when traveling. Have also downloaded a bunch of music on it and listen to it frequently. |
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Location: Texas | My husband absolutely loves his Kindle. I've never been a fan of things like that but I like it so much that I'm hoping to get the Kindle Fire for Christmas. |
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| LOVE LOVE LOVE my kindle paperwhite.... I was like you had paperback books everywhere... AND the other great thing I love is I can make the words bigger and don't need to wear glasses to read it.... AND I have only bought 2 books since my boys gave it to me 3 years ago... I download free books... OF course you have to take what is free... but I love to read and can read anything.. I don't need the internet on my kindle as we don't have wifi any where near me. |
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Location: Stephenville, Texas | You can also add the Kindle app to your Ipad and use it just like a Kindle. I have found the Kindles to only last 1 to 3 years. I think the Ipad is more useful. |
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| I like my ipad the most and includes all the reasons dawnb gave. I just like the functionality of the ibooks app for reading better than the kindle app. But I do have a basic Kindle with their 3g and you can order and download Kindle books on it without paying for internet service. |
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Location: Texas | I got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 for Christmas last year which is about $99 now, and I really like it. It's a reader -I use the Kindle app- but also works like a PC. It has word, excel, internet, etc. it has a camera with good video too, like the ipad. it takes a little getting used to the way it operates, but I love it. |
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Location: God's country | I have the Ipad and use the kindle app on it and love it. I had a kindle and it just crapped out all of the sudden so I installed the app on my Ipad and love it. |
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Location: Kentucky | If he just wants to read, a Nook is perfect. Tons of book selections, plus you can borrow books from others who have Nooks. I love mine. I've had it for about 5 years now. |
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| Agree with theNook. I had the reader only and loved it, but I laid it down on mt BOT blanket and zapped it do I got the nook with Internet wish I had just bought the reader cause that is all I use it for .
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | I have a Nook and a Kindle Fire. I prefer the Kindle Fire. |
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Location: Northeast Nebraska | As a voracious reader myself, I can tell you that I don't want an electronic reader. If I did I would have one. Book lovers love books. Hook him up to paperbackswap.com. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | My mom has the Kindle Fire and it's pretty cool. I think she uses it for everything BUT reading though.
I love reading but I like reading real books. To me reading on a kindle or nook isn't the same. I like to buy the books too so I can put them in my library and admire how many books I have haha
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Location: the end of the rainbow | GoGaited - 2014-11-29 10:22 AM As a voracious reader myself, I can tell you that I don't want an electronic reader. If I did I would have one. Book lovers love books. Hook him up to paperbackswap.com.
Not always true. I love my kindle fire. I will have to admit it has cut down on my reading a little, I only read 2 or 3 books a week now because I do so much other stuff on my kindle (facebook, bhw, pinterest, angry birds, card games, etc.). But my husband claims it suits my a.d.d. I think he's just jealous because I multitask better than he does. |
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | I have so many favorites loaded onto my Kindle Fire, plus the King James bible....and several daily devotional books...and I access Facebook, weather, etc. via my Kindle Fire. I travel a lot ..I can always have my favorite books and magazines, my bible, devotionals and can load a magazine or two for travel -- less for me to tote around when traveling. Love it. Most all of my flights have Wi-Fi access these days so as I am flying over Nebraska I can purchase or borrow a book to read.... pretty cool. I had wondered, too, how I would like it since I love books so much... but I love it. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Delta Cowgirl - 2014-11-29 6:27 PM I have so many favorites loaded onto my Kindle Fire, plus the King James bible....and several daily devotional books...and I access Facebook, weather, etc. via my Kindle Fire. I travel a lot ..I can always have my favorite books and magazines, my bible, devotionals and can load a magazine or two for travel -- less for me to tote around when traveling. Love it. Most all of my flights have Wi-Fi access these days so as I am flying over Nebraska I can purchase or borrow a book to read.... pretty cool. I had wondered, too, how I would like it since I love books so much... but I love it.
Thanks, everybody for all of the info.......
I have been looking at this one....it's on sale for $109
Fire HD 7 Tablet
7" HD Display, Wi-Fi, Front and Rear Cameras, 8 GB or 16 GB
Question: Should I look at the 8GB or the 16GB? 16GB is another $20
Also, it offers it without ads? How annoying are the ads? Having no ads adds another $20
The more I research the more befuddled I get....LOL
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | for $20 I would get the 16GB!
I would also spring for $20 the no ads. Just be rid of that nuisance.
I bought a cover for mine that lets me hold it just like a book.... if I want to do that. Most of the time when reading a book, I do hold it that way.... for old time's sake I think.
Edited by Delta Cowgirl 2014-11-29 6:59 PM
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Location: CTX | My hubby and I absolutely love to read. And between us we have several hundreds of them. We both have an e-reader from Sony.
I really prefer the feel and smell an actual (hardcover) book. But I do admit that I like convenience of the e-reader when traveling. I have around 400 books on it, all free. Before I bought it I would lug around at least 7-10 books with me.... You can imaging how much more clothes I can take now...
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| A question I have. What are the Tablets or whatever you call them that you see people videoing someones barrel run? Are they IPad, Tablets, or wha? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Sandok - 2014-11-29 6:26 PM
A question I have. What are the Tablets or whatever you call them that you see people videoing someones barrel run? Are they IPad, Tablets, or wha?
I think a lot of times they're an iPad, I've heard they take good videos. An "iPad" is basically Apple's version of a tablet. Kind of like how their phone isn't just a phone, it's an iPhone lol. So for the most part all tablets do the same thing, but the iPad is made by Apple and therefore you have access to all the Apple apps and accessories.
But other companies make tablets. So if you see someone videoing with one you'd just have to ask them which one they have specifically. Most people that I know personally, have an iPad.
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Anybody that is going to be purchasing a tablet anytime soon, check out the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2.
I have an Ipad, have been through several android tablets, etc etc.
I do like my Ipad but rarely use it. I never got along with the droid tablets though i do prefer a droid phone.
I needed something for work that ran windows 8 full version, but was still a tablet. I had been hunting for months, and thus far the only option was a very very expensive Microsoft Surface Pro.
I stopped by Best Buy on Black Friday in the afternoon just to see if the Surface was on sale. It was, only 100 bucks off. BUT....they literally just got in the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2. And I want to say I only paid 369 dollars for it!! And i freaking LOVE it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can put Kindle on it, expand the memory with a micro SD card, and it even came with it's own keyboard :) |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | NJJ - 2014-11-29 7:41 PM Delta Cowgirl - 2014-11-29 6:27 PM I have so many favorites loaded onto my Kindle Fire, plus the King James bible....and several daily devotional books...and I access Facebook, weather, etc. via my Kindle Fire. I travel a lot ..I can always have my favorite books and magazines, my bible, devotionals and can load a magazine or two for travel -- less for me to tote around when traveling. Love it. Most all of my flights have Wi-Fi access these days so as I am flying over Nebraska I can purchase or borrow a book to read.... pretty cool. I had wondered, too, how I would like it since I love books so much... but I love it. Thanks, everybody for all of the info.......
I have been looking at this one....it's on sale for $109
Fire HD 7 Tablet
7" HD Display, Wi-Fi, Front and Rear Cameras, 8 GB or 16 GB
Question: Should I look at the 8GB or the 16GB? 16GB is another $20
Also, it offers it without ads? How annoying are the ads? Having no ads adds another $20
The more I research the more befuddled I get....LOL
Get as much memory as you can. I don't think you can expand the memory on the Fire. I have a Fire and I love it too, but very rarely use it because I just don't have time to read. I haven't even looked at it in 7 months or so. I should offer it to you :) |
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| missroselee - 2014-11-30 8:43 PM Anybody that is going to be purchasing a tablet anytime soon, check out the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2.
I have an Ipad, have been through several android tablets, etc etc.
I do like my Ipad but rarely use it. I never got along with the droid tablets though i do prefer a droid phone.
I needed something for work that ran windows 8 full version, but was still a tablet. I had been hunting for months, and thus far the only option was a very very expensive Microsoft Surface Pro.
I stopped by Best Buy on Black Friday in the afternoon just to see if the Surface was on sale. It was, only 100 bucks off. BUT....they literally just got in the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2. And I want to say I only paid 369 dollars for it!! And i freaking LOVE it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can put Kindle on it, expand the memory with a micro SD card, and it even came with it's own keyboard :)
Can you record on this like you can with the iPad? |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | 455Rocket - 2014-12-01 4:11 PM missroselee - 2014-11-30 8:43 PM Anybody that is going to be purchasing a tablet anytime soon, check out the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2.
I have an Ipad, have been through several android tablets, etc etc.
I do like my Ipad but rarely use it. I never got along with the droid tablets though i do prefer a droid phone.
I needed something for work that ran windows 8 full version, but was still a tablet. I had been hunting for months, and thus far the only option was a very very expensive Microsoft Surface Pro.
I stopped by Best Buy on Black Friday in the afternoon just to see if the Surface was on sale. It was, only 100 bucks off. BUT....they literally just got in the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2. And I want to say I only paid 369 dollars for it!! And i freaking LOVE it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can put Kindle on it, expand the memory with a micro SD card, and it even came with it's own keyboard :) Can you record on this like you can with the iPad?
i think so. i havent tried yet but it says you can |
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | I just bought my son an ipad mini from Santa for $199 on Bestbuy for Cyber Monday, if you think you want to go that route, I believe its a good price. I have an old Sony ereader but at the time I had asked hubby for a Nook from Barnes and Noble - it was better than the Kindle when they first came out. I NEVER use my ereader anymore, which is sad as I have about 80 books on there, but there is no wifi and it has to charge off the computer, I hate it, wish my hubby would have folled my list better. I have a tablet and my phone both have kindle apps, which I love, good thing about those as its backlit and you can adjust the brightness level. My ereader I had a cover with a light. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Well.......plans have changed....."ereader" is on hold, for now, since my laptop shot craps today. Thankfully, I found a good buy on a 17" screen with Windows 7 (my two "first" requirements)......I did NOT want Windows 8 or 8.1
I just hate that anything you buy anymore is just a "throw away"! |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | NJJ - 2014-12-01 6:48 PM Well.......plans have changed....."ereader" is on hold, for now, since my laptop shot craps today. Thankfully, I found a good buy on a 17" screen with Windows 7 (my two "first" requirements)......I did NOT want Windows 8 or 8.1
I just hate that anything you buy anymore is just a "throw away"!
That's why I commented on your facebook post and highly recommended an SSD drive. It will save you a ton of headache in the future. I won't even consider purchasing anything anymore unless it has an SSD. Regular hard drives run just like an old record player, with a disc that spins and a "needle" that reads it (eye). So every time you move or jostle it, you take a chance on crashing the stupid thing. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | missroselee - 2014-12-01 5:56 PM NJJ - 2014-12-01 6:48 PM Well.......plans have changed....."ereader" is on hold, for now, since my laptop shot craps today. Thankfully, I found a good buy on a 17" screen with Windows 7 (my two "first" requirements)......I did NOT want Windows 8 or 8.1
I just hate that anything you buy anymore is just a "throw away"! That's why I commented on your facebook post and highly recommended an SSD drive. It will save you a ton of headache in the future. I won't even consider purchasing anything anymore unless it has an SSD. Regular hard drives run just like an old record player, with a disc that spins and a "needle" that reads it (eye). So every time you move or jostle it, you take a chance on crashing the stupid thing.
Thanks for the info....I read a little more about them. My laptop, very seldom, gets moved. Unfortunately, my hard drive (and other parts) tested good, it was the "motherboard" that went bad in my HP. (again). Not worth replacing it. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | If all he wants to do is read, a Kindle paperwhite. If he likes to read and watch videos, play music, get a Kindle Fire. If he wants more usable functionality, to do videos himself and play games, iPad all the way. BTW, I have a Kindle Fire, a regular 1st Gen Kindle, a nook, and iPad. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | NJJ - 2014-12-01 8:07 PM missroselee - 2014-12-01 5:56 PM NJJ - 2014-12-01 6:48 PM Well.......plans have changed....."ereader" is on hold, for now, since my laptop shot craps today. Thankfully, I found a good buy on a 17" screen with Windows 7 (my two "first" requirements)......I did NOT want Windows 8 or 8.1
I just hate that anything you buy anymore is just a "throw away"! That's why I commented on your facebook post and highly recommended an SSD drive. It will save you a ton of headache in the future. I won't even consider purchasing anything anymore unless it has an SSD. Regular hard drives run just like an old record player, with a disc that spins and a "needle" that reads it (eye). So every time you move or jostle it, you take a chance on crashing the stupid thing.
Hence the reason I refuse to ever purchase an HP. Seems like motherboards are an ongoing issue with them. And typically when the motherboard goes, it's never worth fixing.
Advice again....watch your power cords. If they get damaged in any way, replace them with a FACTORY cord that is made for that model of laptop, not just a general one that fits any laptop. Defective power cords can burn up your motherboards really fast! Power goes to the motherboard at the plug in port so it's the first thing that gets fried if a power cord is bad. |
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