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ptc
10-27-2003, 04:47 PM
I love eBooks and wanted to know if Palmonecity users out there like them as much as I do... I've read 6 so far (4 free, 2 purchased from palmdigitialmedia)

I haven't gone 100% digital yet, so I still read printed books about half the time...

mocha
10-27-2003, 05:40 PM
I travel a lot. Over the past five years, since my Vx days, I have read literally hundreds of ebooks. Mainly Sci-Fi, mystery, horror, non-fiction science, etc.

Icepick4u
10-27-2003, 06:05 PM
I have ton's but not enough time to seat and read

:(

narnia_77
10-27-2003, 11:38 PM
(checking database... SmartList To Go rocks!)
Own 804 ebooks - read 480 of them :D
smallest ebook (short story) 7k
largest ebook (not counting dictionaries) 1443k
highest paid ebook $9.48

Omnitron
10-28-2003, 12:33 AM
Between free books from Baen Free Library, some Mobipocket and Palmreader books, assorted PalmDocs , I've got lots. Probably bought a good dozen from Baen Webscriptions and about the same or more from PeanutPress. I probably keep around 40-50 on my card at any one time. SciFi is my favorite, but I keep a variety of classics. Love Sherlock Holmes, various Edgar Rice Burroughs, etc. Star Trek books, even some Buffy TVS.

After always finding myself WITHOUT anything to read for years, having a library in my pocket is NEAT!

ptc
10-28-2003, 12:55 PM
It's funny how resistent some people are to the concept of eBooks.

I recently got The DaVinci Code through palmdigitalmedia and thought my wife would like it. She just got a brand new T3, but was convinced she'd hate eBooks so didn't want to try them (she thought it would hurt her eyes).

I put The Davinci Code on her T3 anyway - she eventually tried it, and now is completely sold on eBooks and really likes PalmReader format in landscape mode...

ojleblanc
10-28-2003, 01:08 PM
I have a couple, mostly free ones. But I've only read The Natural (about Clinton's presidency). At the time I had a NX70V and the extra viewing space that the VG area gave me was really beneficial. Reading ebooks on my T|C is not as enjoyable, but I'm still at it. Currently, I'm reading a series of Lincoln's speeches.

For those who have read many ebooks, can you tell if many come with images? I really wished our ebooks would more often come with the cover art that comes on paper books. Why deny us this bit of eye candy?

Omnitron
10-28-2003, 02:03 PM
I've gotten a couple --- a non-fiction Trek book on the making of the DS9 Tribble episode had some pictures... I've got a Wild Card compilation book that had a few illustrations in it. Usually you can tell -- illustrated books are LOTS bigger in size.

All of the Baen books throw in the cover (Mobipocket format)- which helps for identification purposes... Usually though it comes out QUITE small. I guess they have to make it usable on the old 160x160 screens, but that makes it TINY on the new 320x320 highres screens. Depending upon the artwork, almost not worth the effort.

vcleniuk
10-28-2003, 02:26 PM
I have tons of e-books, most of them free. But lately I've been buying them (now up to 8 purchased).

Currently reading "The Anatomy of Motive" and next "Cryptonomicon".

ryber
10-28-2003, 04:10 PM
Originally posted by ojleblanc
For those who have read many ebooks, can you tell if many come with images? I really wished our ebooks would more often come with the cover art that comes on paper books. Why deny us this bit of eye candy?

There is usually very little art work from the book. The creators of the ebooks do this to save space on the handheld. Images in PalmReader format take up a lot more space than text. And plain PalmDoc files can't handle images, only text.

bryus
10-29-2003, 03:35 PM
I have a few dozen eBooks on my TC's SD card and have read at least 15.

I am hooked on eBooks for their portability and the fact that I can carry an entire library in my pocket. :D

Edlin
10-29-2003, 06:59 PM
You need a higher amount in your poll. I read 10 a week at least.

skw
10-29-2003, 08:31 PM
I had always read voraciously until I had an devastating accident that compromised my sight. Then I discovered ebooks and Palmreader Pro. I can use big type, choose my font, adjust the contrast colors, and read out of one eye. Suddenly I could read as easily as I could before. I can even read in bed now because with the backlight I'm not disturbing my husband. I used to go short on packing clothes on trips in favor of packing more books. God forbid being stuck somewhere without a book! Now I can literaly carry 100 around with me on a SD card. The best prices on new books can be found at http:\\www.fictionwise.com They have a great membership deal with all sorts of rebates. You also get a free membership to an ebook lending library with yout membership. I don't hestitate to recommend them after over 163 purchases and that has to mean something.

Edlin
10-29-2003, 08:57 PM
I used to go short on packing clothes on trips in favor of packing more books. God forbid being stuck somewhere without a book!
Sounds like me! I love never running out of book of the train/bus/where ever thanks to my pda.

benny
11-05-2003, 08:38 PM
I have about ( didn't really count) 30 ebooks ( purchased from PalmDigital n Fictionwise) and about 10 free downloads classics

LanMan
11-07-2003, 09:06 AM
I haven't purchased any ebooks, but I have read dozens of freebies. I love the ebook format, and I am really looking forward to having a color unit with VG/DIA. That will make my ebook experience even more enjoyable. My FAVORITE ebook? - The Bible, of course! :D

rldunn
11-07-2003, 02:37 PM
I own 28 Palm Reader books, and have read all but 2 of them.

*YellowRose*
11-08-2003, 01:34 PM
About a bazillion . . . I honestly have no idea! :P

samantha51875
07-10-2004, 10:08 AM
I've only had my Clie for a few weeks now, and I'm on my 3rd eBook. It's great. I love reading, and having the books on my Clie makes my bag a lot lighter!

naich
07-12-2004, 09:10 AM
What are some good sites for free ebooks? Sorry, I"m a PDA newbie! I just got a clie tj37 :)

kenj43
07-12-2004, 09:18 AM
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 200. I've been reading free ebooks from memoware.com on my Palm/Visor/Clie for years. Makes the train ride go quicker, and I don't have to carry dead trees around.

ClieDad
07-12-2004, 01:16 PM
Wow! I just went back and counted 17 read books on my bookshelf at eReader.com. Several have had illustrations and the size was no big deal since I keep them on my Memory Stick. I love ebooks for two reasons. The backlight for reading in bed without disturbing my wife, and the convenience of being able to whip out a book during those 15 or 20 minute breaks in the day when I find myself waiting with nothing else to do. I am surprised at the number of users who are keeping multiple books on their cards. I only read one at a time so my "on Stick" selection is pretty sparse!

bryus
07-15-2004, 08:14 AM
What are some good sites for free ebooks? Sorry, I"m a PDA newbie! I just got a clie tj37 :)

eReader and Fictionwise are my two favorites. They offer plenty of eBooks including the latest best sellers. Sometimes they even offer the eBook before it is published in dead tree format. There is also a very long list of sites at the top of this forum.

caipro
07-20-2004, 09:21 AM
About a bazillion . . . I honestly have no idea! :P

yup me too.. :) i love em.. usually have around 20-30 books on a card, though i am off on vacation tomorrow so i will fill up.

Peppy
07-24-2004, 10:45 AM
I probably finish off an ebook about once every two to three weeks. If I can't find it in ebook format then I don't read it. My only exception are college text books but that is because MOST don't come in ebook format. If they did then that would be how I'd read them.

prodigyz
07-26-2004, 05:14 PM
I'd done couple of e-book, but they're all static e-book. As you know static e-book are kinda bored sometimes.
Now I'm just started to read on this e-book called "Sherlock Holmes: Three Cases" by inebook(dynamic e-book maker). I'm still in the beginning and I already found it very interesting.
Give it a shot if you bored of reading static e-book. :cool:

ebook junky
07-27-2004, 09:10 PM
I see this thread must have been split. I read 4-16 books a month and since I have had a handheld most of them I read now as ebooks. Unless I don't have a choice that is.

JulianL
07-28-2004, 05:29 AM
It varies a lot, but I read about an ebook a week at the moment. I only read ebooks, and I have about 30 novels on my Memory Stick right now, of which I've read about 20.

When I got my first Palm (a Palm V) in 1999 I can to this day still remember vividly the feeling I had as I was sitting on my sofa reading the first ebook I'd just downloaded and thinking to myself that this was the most exciting piece of technology I had ever purchased (it still is) and was the first (and to this day the only) technology where I really felt like it had stepped straight out of Star Trek and into my hands. My PDA (now a TH55) is still my favorite piece of technology. I lost a little enthusiasm during my Palm m505/m515 years because of the drop in battery life which made reading on a long plane flight far less practical. My new TH55 has renewed my love affair with PDAs and ebooks, the battery life when reading ebooks is exceptional.

Back in 1999 I only downloaded free stuff and so, because of copyright, it was all classic literature and I had great fun reading all the classic works that I had never read at school. I was quite amused when a friend pointed out to me the irony that it was a piece of late 20th century technology that had finally got me to read the 18th and 19th century classics.

To this day I still think ebooks are one of the most exciting aspects of owning a Palm. I just love knowing that I have a small library in my pocket for those waits for a train, in a doctor's waiting room, on an airplane, or whenever one has a few hours or minutes to kill. Since getting the TH55 a few weeks ago I have now entered a new phase of my ebook reading and have started buying commercial titles and I'm impressed by how much is out there. Having professional formatting is nice.

- Julian.

bryus
07-30-2004, 11:56 AM
Great post!

I actually started with purchased book and later learned to convert Gutenberg texts to eReader format. I haven't read to many of the classics because I don't have the time.

JulianL
07-30-2004, 01:35 PM
Great post!

I actually started with purchased book and later learned to convert Gutenberg texts to eReader format. I haven't read to many of the classics because I don't have the time.

Thanks!

There's a really neat site that I just discovered recently, http://www.manybooks.net/, it serves up Gutenberg texts but it allows you to select what format you want them in (eReader is one of the options) and it formats your requested book for you. The formatting isn't flashy, but it does put in chapter markers for the ereader version. It's all free.

- Julian

readingfanatic
08-05-2004, 12:58 PM
I suppose I've read about 20 ebooks, but I continue to read "old-fashioned" books at the same time. I mostly read the classics in ebook format. Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo from memoware.com. A friend bought the same book at an auction. It took 4 volumes! I guess that's why I prefer ebooks--portability and their ease of use. I can read anywhere now. That's why the pile of "normal" books that I intend to read "one day when I get the time" keeps growing larger and larger.

I still haven't bought an ebook yet, although I think that's probably coming soon. I don't have much money, and you can still pick up dead tree books at ridiculously low prices at used book stores. It's illegal to buy a "used" or previously read copyrighted ebook.

I wish that textbooks were available in ebook format. It would save my back!

aym
08-09-2004, 08:11 AM
Wow. I'm definitely on the extreme edge here. Since I joined Fictionwise in mid-January 2004 I've purchased and read about 130 full length books and 140 short stories or novelettes, and have about 90 more full length books unread. I also buy (less regularly) from eReader and Renaissance eBooks with some regularity, so I have probably read 30 some books from those 2 stores this year and bought another 30. Fictionwise's buyers club just has some real savings for regular buyers so I concentrate my purchases there.

I've cut down drastically on buying paper books, since I much prefer eReader now, but I still pick up maybe 6 paperbacks per month on average (down from about 4-6 per week).

I've always bought pretty much everything I might read right when it comes out, though, even if I can't get to it right away. I'm usually actively in the middle of 6+ books at a time (active meaning having read some of within past week).

I've always been this way. My parents used to limit my library runs to about a dozen books a week.

a reader, and proud of it!
Aym

JulianL
08-09-2004, 04:06 PM
I've cut down drastically on buying paper books, since I much prefer eReader now
Do you literally mean eReader, i.e. all the books you buy are in eReader format, or do you buy MobiPocket or other formats as well? If you stick to eReader format, do you find that restricts your range of books at all?

At first I was concerned that I was missing out on stuff, and I think that on non-fiction maybe I am, but as far as fiction goes, now that I've discovered that if necessary I can buy a Microsoft Reader book and crack the encryption so that I can convert it to eReader format, I'm less worried.

I haven't tried converting a secure Microsoft book yet, I will only do it if there's a title I just have to have that isn't available in eReader format, but I've downloaded the software in case I ever do need to do this.

- Julian

aym
08-09-2004, 08:39 PM
I mainly buy eReader or multiformat, but I own a few books in Mobipocket (mainly reference books like encyclopedias) and just a few in Adobe. I had such a horrid time with Adobe I've sworn off buying them again (getting the DRM set up was absolute he**, and then I had one book I tried to download multiple times over 3 days until it finally told me I'd downloaded it too many times - none successful though - and I gave up and insisted they give me my money back). I've thought about trying the LIT conversion too, but I've found I just don't like the other readers enough to read full books in them so I don't buy them.

Yes, it limits me somewhat. I can sometimes find things at eReader.com that are only available in other formats at Fictionwise, but I mainly try to remain disciplined about not even looking at books not listed in PalmReader/eReader format so I'm not tempted to buy them.

If I could get converters for LIT and perhaps Adobe (which at least I can technically read on my palm) I'd buy them and not feel a bit guilty making them readable by my software. I spend hundreds of dollars on books - I have the right to read them. After a bit of searching I haven't found an Adobe convertor except the one that the guy's getting sued over and can't sell, so that may not happen. There are a number of books I own 2-3 paper copies of (I'm hard on books I love) that I have bought in eBook. I think owning a few copies - and at least one e-version - entitles me to a readable version.

I wish more companies would get real about their eBook marketing. I just finished the Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake series, and there were a handful in the middle of the series I had to get at eReader to get my version, and almost all of the newer ones were FAR more expensive at Fictionwise. What is with these newcomer publishers that think someone will pay $25 for a popular book, or God-forbid over $100 for some of their textbook type titles. Who are they kidding? In most cases I get them cheaper than I would in p-book format at Amazon; I'd even pay the same amount. Never more.

Aym

NJL!2016
08-09-2004, 08:40 PM
I read 1/10th of an eBook. I am reading Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. It's pretty good, but it is really drawn out

So far I own five:

1) Dreamcatcher (As mentioned above)
2) Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr
3) Bringing Down the House by Ben mezrich
4) Handheld Computing 5.0

JulianL
08-10-2004, 09:25 AM
I've thought about trying the LIT conversion too, but I've found I just don't like the other readers enough to read full books in them so I don't buy them.
I haven't tried this yet, but the Clit converter can output to html, and then the eReader studio (i.e. the one they charge for) can convert from html to eReader format.

I might go this route, but then depending on how restricted the html output from clit is, it might be quite trivial to post-process in an editor just doing global find and replace to change the html markup tags to the eReader markup language, at which point you could then feed that to the free eReader tool (MakeBook? DropBook?) to create the eReader version. One day I'll buy a secure LIT book and do some experiments.

Like you, as long as I pay for the secure book in the first place then I have no concience about cracking it so that I can convert it to eReader; if the published had just published it in all formats in the first place then I wouldn't need to bother.

- Julian

JulianL
08-11-2004, 08:36 PM
Hey Aym, can you tear yourself away from your ebooks long enough to answer a quick question for me please? :)

You said that you buy "mainly ereader of multiformat", and in a few places I got the definite impression that ereader is your reader of choice. eReader is also my reader of choice and I just recently found a few books not listed on ereader.com that are available in multiformat from fictionwise (e.g. ereader has volumes 1 and 3 of a trilogy, but not volume 2 - how crazy is that?).

So my question is, what format do you tend to choose when ordering multiformat? I assume that it would be plain old doc format and that you read those in ereader. Is there a better choice or is my guess corrct? If this is correct then how much cruder does the doc formatting tend to be compared to ereader format? I assume that doc format can't mark up chapters so the ereader chapter listing feature won't see any chapters in the book, but is it capable of any formatting like bold for chapter titles, italics, etc?

- Julian

tnhh
08-11-2004, 09:03 PM
JulianL,

You can test this out for yourself by getting some free books from Fictionwise: http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm

There are lots of multiformat books, and a few LIT books there as well.

Personally I use EReader for their encrypted books, but for everything else, I use iSilo.

JulianL
08-12-2004, 05:48 PM
JulianL,

You can test this out for yourself by getting some free books from Fictionwise: http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm

Thanks. I tried downloading "Around the world in 80 days" in doc format; I was dissapointed with the formatting, it's very basic. I don't know why I'm so fussy but I do prefer my ebooks to look somewhat professional. Then again it probably wouldn't be too much work to convert the doc format to plain text (I'm sure I have a tool somewhere to do that), do some very simple editing with a text editor to at least make chapter headers look nice, and then convert it to eReader.

- Julian

Adrenochrome
08-18-2004, 09:58 AM
I'm an ebook newbie - only into my fifth - but I'm sold. I am, and always have been, a "real" book junkie. I love books so much I use them as furnishings in my house, so I was never interested in ebooks. That changed recently with the birth of my second daughter, and I found I had no time at all in which to read. For about six months I read nothing, and then I downloaded a book into eReader, and found that I could read again because I could read while rocking the baby to sleep, or at lunch at work, or while walking between buildings at work, or whenever I could grab five minutes here or there. Having the book always handy, dark-readable, one-handable, and legible with large fonts in case my glasses weren't handy, made all the difference.

Chances are that once life gets a little bit back to normal, I'll go back to my beloved old books, but there will now always be a place for ebooks for me.

Edlin
08-18-2004, 11:11 PM
I used to finnish 1/2 book a night I think when my daughter needed rocking to sleep. her in my arms, m100 with backlight on:)
I still own an awful lot of dead tree books, but have been at the point for a while now that I prefer to read of a PDA.

GolfBot
08-19-2004, 04:30 PM
Hi all, I am reading about 1 e-book every two weeks, but additionally I am reading about 5 e-zine sources on a daily basis using Plucker. There really is not distinction IMHO between the concept of an e-book, an e-zine/ blog or other source except for its different nature of content. Speaking of books: I recently switched to using Audible.com as another source for mobility and literature/ non-fiction. Now I can enjoy books even in non-reading situations, like running , sitting on a train or just having my eyes closed. A great way to hear audio-books on your Palm device, and with a convenient (if somewhat old-fashioned looking) software. Bottom line: Palm = great device for enjoying literature in a great variety of ways :-) Best , GB

Adrenochrome
08-19-2004, 04:50 PM
I like the idea of Audible, but the turnoff for me is the price. $30-$40 for a book is pretty steep. I usually go to the library, find what I want, rip it to MP3 and listen to it that way.

GolfBot
08-19-2004, 05:07 PM
Adrenochrome, you are right, Audible prices are kind of high. For me in Germany it is a convenient way to get my hands fast on US audiobooks, faster than ordring them via amazon.de, and much faster and much cheaper than going through amazon.com mothership. Have you ever checked out Audible's subscription plans? I believe this is the only way to get a decent rate for an audiobook there (but your method isdefinitely a workable way :-) Enjoy, GB

bryus
08-19-2004, 05:12 PM
I like the idea of Audible, but the turnoff for me is the price. $30-$40 for a book is pretty steep. I usually go to the library, find what I want, rip it to MP3 and listen to it that way.

It is only expensive if you order a la carte. If you sign up for the monthly plan it is $20 a month for ANY two books each month. You don't have to sign up for a commitment if you don't want, but if you do they give you discounts on PDAs. You can sign up for a month, then cancel before the next renewal period and listen to your books.

I have been subscribing since January and a typical audiobook I download is in the $30-$55 range. I still only pay $20 a month. Also, since I was paying I signed up for a year and got $100 off my T3 at Amazon.

Adrenochrome
08-20-2004, 06:25 AM
Interesting. How do you feel about the quality of their books? I got a book-on-CD from the library a month ago and couldn't listen to it because the narrator was so bland and droning that annoyed the heck out of me.

What about their number of titles? Do you feel like there's always something you want available?

bryus
08-20-2004, 03:12 PM
Interesting. How do you feel about the quality of their books? I got a book-on-CD from the library a month ago and couldn't listen to it because the narrator was so bland and droning that annoyed the heck out of me.

What about their number of titles? Do you feel like there's always something you want available?

Sometimes you don't get the best reader. That's just how it goes. But, for the most part I have liked the readers. You can look up books by reader if you really like the reader's voice or want to know which titles to avoid.

The selection has gotten significantly better in the last few years. I avoid abridged audio whenever possible. This kept me from joining two years ago. They really didn't have much in the unabridged library. Now, however, they have a good selection of unabridged.

Overall they have a very large selection and they tend to get many of the latest best sellers shortly after they are released. I did have to wait 10 days after the hardcover release of Dark Tower VI for the audio but it wasn't too bad.

I am guessing that their track record has proven to publishers that they are a viable and safe distribution method.

Browse their selection for any books you are considering and see if they have what you like.

GenoG
09-05-2004, 07:37 PM
What website has the best and largest selection of ebooks?

Edlin
09-05-2004, 11:30 PM
Best is a subjective term....

Fictionwise.com & eReader.com (formally palm digital reader) are probally the biggest commerical book sellers. I prefer fictionwise out of the two of them. Mostly becasue you dont need to give your credit card details to look around it first. Amazon and Powells also spring to mind. Lightning source is a newish one that may be worth a look. (https://www.lightningsource.com/)

Plus free Ebooks are available these places:
My prefered is manybooks for ease of downloading, and e-book.com.au for a great listing of digital libraries. Gutenberg has HUGE amounts of books.

http://www.manybooks.net
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
http://www.baen.com/library/
http://www.memoware.com/mw.cgi?screen=main
http://www.blackmask.com/page.php
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://www.gutenberg.net/
http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=millionbooks
http://www.bibliomania.com/main.html

Look at the thread <http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52652> for a listing of book sites.

aym
09-10-2004, 07:32 PM
Hey Aym, can you tear yourself away from your ebooks long enough to answer a quick question for me please? :)

You said that you buy "mainly ereader of multiformat", and in a few places I got the definite impression that ereader is your reader of choice. eReader is also my reader of choice and I just recently found a few books not listed on ereader.com that are available in multiformat from fictionwise (e.g. ereader has volumes 1 and 3 of a trilogy, but not volume 2 - how crazy is that?).

So my question is, what format do you tend to choose when ordering multiformat? I assume that it would be plain old doc format and that you read those in ereader. Is there a better choice or is my guess corrct? If this is correct then how much cruder does the doc formatting tend to be compared to ereader format? I assume that doc format can't mark up chapters so the ereader chapter listing feature won't see any chapters in the book, but is it capable of any formatting like bold for chapter titles, italics, etc?

- Julian
Wow - incredibly late response to this - sorry. I haven't been able to read anything much since my workload went through the roof.

I usually get doc format because I prefer to read them in eReader. What I think you'll find is that formatting varies greatly in doc format. I don't think it can do things like chapter index, but at least Renaissance eBooks - where I get a lot of multiformat books from - takes the time to make chapter headings bold, centered, and consistently named so you can search for chapters.

Honestly, I rarely notice much difference between professional multiformat books (as opposed to people just converting something and throwing it out there) and eReader secured books unless the book is of the type that it would be likely to use footnotes and internal references. Many encrypted books don't bother to do things like chapter indices and TOC sections, and I see many that don't have cover pictures. It's like all they care about in converting to eReader format is the security. I'm actually pleasantly surprised when I find "advanced" formatting in a book.

If you really want to get a sense of what can be done with multiformat books try something from Fictionwise in the $3-6 range. They have a lot of mini-novels that are done by small but professional publishers. Things like "Around the World in 80 Days" are much more likely to be someone taking the text from Project Gutenberg and taking the time to convert it to a doc, IMHO.

Another option is to get either the Palm Digital Media studio or the older MakeBook tools (they're around, I'm not sure where) and convert things yourself. I don't know if Fictionwise has HTML and/or RTF versions but some sellers do. I do that at times - it doesn't take that long to highlight all the chapter headings and mark them as chapters.

peterh
09-20-2004, 09:05 AM
i've been using palm digital reader (ereader) since 2001 i think ... hundreds of books ...
I always like to have a few current books on my palm, so i can pick them up while i am out.
its funny though as I just don't or can't read hard copy books. I've brought some, but I never get round to reading them ... i also usualy read in bed, which my NZ90 is great for ...

techick
09-24-2004, 12:22 PM
I suppose I've read about 20 ebooks, but I continue to read "old-fashioned" books at the same time. I mostly read the classics in ebook format. Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo from memoware.com. A friend bought the same book at an auction. It took 4 volumes!

Yeah, I got the complete Poe works that way, a LOT easier to carry and to read in the tub!:)

I guess that's why I prefer ebooks--portability and their ease of use. I can read anywhere now. That's why the pile of "normal" books that I intend to read "one day when I get the time" keeps growing larger and larger.

Ditto!!!!!

I still haven't bought an ebook yet, although I think that's probably coming soon. I don't have much money, and you can still pick up dead tree books at ridiculously low prices at used book stores. It's illegal to buy a "used" or previously read copyrighted ebook.

I agree, you should try out the elibrary's they are the solution! For example I pay only like $15 a yr for this library, http://www.libwise.com/servlet/mw;jsessionid=cQWkGNbVSLz4Y4DV4f1pcXNvwBA?a=rewrite&url=/knowbetter, and they seem to have a very good selection and the customizing of how long you keep the books, etc...has gotten better and better, thereby enhancing how many ebooks you get to read for your buck!:D

I wish that textbooks were available in ebook format. It would save my back!

Yeah, I have a few non-ficton books and I like to get them in Mobipocket format as I can "highlight" to my little hearts delight!!! Great way to review notes quickly and highlight and delete the highlight without chewing up a real book:)

bryus
09-24-2004, 04:29 PM
Yeah, I got the complete Poe works that way, a LOT easier to carry and to read in the tub!:)



Ditto!!!!!



I agree, you should try out the elibrary's they are the solution! For example I pay only like $15 a yr for this library, http://www.libwise.com/servlet/mw;jsessionid=cQWkGNbVSLz4Y4DV4f1pcXNvwBA?a=rewrite&url=/knowbetter, and they seem to have a very good selection and the customizing of how long you keep the books, etc...has gotten better and better, thereby enhancing how many ebooks you get to read for your buck!:D



Yeah, I have a few non-ficton books and I like to get them in Mobipocket format as I can "highlight" to my little hearts delight!!! Great way to review notes quickly and highlight and delete the highlight without chewing up a real book:)


Your library link isn't working, I think it requires your login. The only program that I see is $29.95 a month for 250 check-outs a month.

techick
09-26-2004, 06:52 PM
sorry, http://www.libwise.com/knowbetter/