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My wife is getting me a kendel over the weekend. This is my first attempt at e-books. Any hints, tips, money saving ideas, necessary accessories, etc. Your input will be appreciated.

Thanks,,,

StewNTexas wrote:My wife is getting me a kendel over the weekend. This is my first attempt at e-books. Any hints, tips, money saving ideas, necessary accessories, etc. Your input will be appreciated. Thanks,,,

No, I don't have any hints or tips, but when you have some experience with it let us know. Then, maybe you can give us some tips. I have been looking into buying one also.

Yep, here's a tip. You will be spending much more
$$$ on reading than in the past. It is SO convenient
to instantly buy and download a book.

Great devices actually.

GrillKing wrote:Yep, here's a tip. You will be spending much more
$$$ on reading than in the past. It is SO convenient
to instantly buy and download a book.

Great devices actually.

$o, how much i$ a book? Is there a market for the once read e-books or is that just money out the window?

Oldgringo wrote:

GrillKing wrote:Yep, here's a tip. You will be spending much more
$$$ on reading than in the past. It is SO convenient
to instantly buy and download a book.

Great devices actually.

$o, how much i$ a book? Is there a market for the once read e-books or is that just money out the window?

I have no idea about new e-books, but there are thousands and thousands of books in the public domain that are available for free.
Some of them are real old books. More than 60 years old.

I don't have a Kindle device, but I do have Amazon's Kindle app for iPads, and it works very well. The price of books is generally lower than for the hard copies, and download is pretty quick.

Since getting the app, I've downloaded the following selections:

• New Oxford American Dictionary
• ESV Study Bible
• Partriots James Wesley, Rawles
• Garden of Beasts (Jeffrey Deaver)
• Beyond Band of Brothers (Major Dick Winters)
• Crack! Thump (Captain Charles Scheffel)
• With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Eugene B. Sledge)
• Helmet for my Pillow (Robert Leckie)
• The Pacific (Hugh Ambrose)
• Unbroken (Laura Hillenband)
• Ghost Soldiers (Hampton Sides)
• Give me Tomorrow (Patrick K. O'Donnell)

I've been on a bit of a WW2 kick lately, but that last title is about G/1/1 USMC which landed at Inchon and fought through and beyond the Chosin Reservoir. It's my first look at historical accounts of the Korean War. Garden of Beasts is a historical fiction set in 1936 Berlin.

The Annoyed Man wrote:I don't have a Kindle device, but I do have Amazon's Kindle app for iPads, and it works very well. The price of books is generally lower than for the hard copies, and download is pretty quick.

Since getting the app, I've downloaded the following selections:

• New Oxford American Dictionary
• ESV Study Bible
• Partriots James Wesley, Rawles
• Garden of Beasts (Jeffrey Deaver)
• Beyond Band of Brothers (Major Dick Winters)
• Crack! Thump (Captain Charles Scheffel)
• With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Eugene B. Sledge)
• Helmet for my Pillow (Robert Leckie)
• The Pacific (Hugh Ambrose)
• Unbroken (Laura Hillenband)
• Ghost Soldiers (Hampton Sides)
• Give me Tomorrow (Patrick K. O'Donnell)

I've been on a bit of a WW2 kick lately, but that last title is about G/1/1 USMC which landed at Inchon and fought through and beyond the Chosin Reservoir. It's my first look at historical accounts of the Korean War. Garden of Beasts is a historical fiction set in 1936 Berlin.

I think (hope) that you'd really like "City of Thieves" by David Benioff. It is a fictional story about the siege of Leningrad.

I bought a Kindle DX for a friend for Christmas and she loves it. I think the one she got didn't hold a charge correctly and they sent her a new one right away. She says the customer support from Amazon is great. The DX is the larger one which she needed because her vision is really bad. She loves to take it with her on trips so she can read by the pool, etc. It works well outside for her. She's an avid reader and being able to download a new book while she's out of town and not have to take a bunch of books with her is great.

I have a Nook Color and I love that thing. It's easy to read and the ebooks are typically less expensive than having an actual book. I read a lot of non-fiction and most of what I like is available in ebook format. I also can download digital copies of magazines and read them in full color. It is easier to carry it and all it holds versus carrying a library around with me (kind of like not carrying a cop).

Make sure you get a case or something to protect the screen. You don't want to bust that thing.

Everyone I know who has a Kindle loves it. Some a little too much. I actually heard from a coworker "I left my Kindle at the strip club last night." THAT is dedication to the device.

Wife bought a Kindle for her mom, she loved it. Kept her company during the long doctor waiting room stays. She passed a few months ago, sis-in-law inherited it and loves it.

Wife got a ipad from the kids for Christmas, really really loves it. Maybe not as good for reading books, but it has games and internet stuff the kindle doesn't have.

At last count wife and I each have accumulated more than 500 books on our Kindles in the years we have had them. It comes already loaded with a user's manual. Very helpful. If you choose not to read it all the way through (which I recommend) you can do a typical computer word search to find a solution to your problem. Books for which the copyright has elapsed, in general the great classics, cost you nothing. Seldom are new books more than $9.99, and many new books are free or just $0.99 as the author introduces himself to the Kindle world. I would realistically estimate that more than half of our 500 books were free or no more than one dollar. Your internet hookup is free, and a book usually downloads to your Kindle in less than 30 seconds. It also comes loaded with a dictionary accessible just by placing a cursor on the word, and if the dictionary is not sufficient for you, you can move over to Wikipedia. You can access hundreds of magazine and newspapers from all over the world.

And the Kindle does indeed have some games, but it is primarily for reading books. Its eInk is not backlit like computers, iPads and such are, and it is very easy on the eyes. Just like a book.

Here are a couple of forums which I have found very helpful to new users:

The KindleKorner Yahoo group, at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kindlekorner/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Kindle Forum, at: http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-eboo ... =133141011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (near the bottom of the page)

You will find the members of these forums to be very kind, patient and helpful to new users. Much kinder and patient than than you find on many forums. They realize that there are hundreds of new users out there, and they have been one themselves.

Elmo

Are Laura K. Hamilton’s books available?

Oldgringo wrote:I think (hope) that you'd really like "City of Thieves" by David Benioff. It is a fictional story about the siege of Leningrad.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out. One of my favorite WW2 movies is Enemy at the Gates, based on a sniper/countersniper duel that developed between Soviet sniper Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his German counterpart, Major Erwin König during the battle for Stalingrad. Zaitsev is one of the most famous snipers of all time, and became some sort of hero of the fatherland to the Russians, both during and after the war.