I too have read John Boyne’s book on Crippen and found it fascinating
If I read a really good book, I’ll often buy it from Amazon - I have quite a collection!
Gwyn
im reading the boy with the topknot by sathnam.sanghera,just started to read it,so im not sure if its a good read yet.i like to read bio’s.
Just getting to the end of the 39 steps, if I stay awake long enough should finish it tonight. Then big decision do I start a sci fi or a classic ?? Have to have a look at what I have on my kindle !
Tell me is reading from a Kindle as comfortable as reading a book? I can see several pros. The ability to read in bed without having to hold a large sometimes heavy book, No matter whether you are reading a paperback or hard back the kindle just slips into your bag so that you can read when hubs goes into the hardware shop.
The antis. are Not being able to flip to the cover to find out anything about the author but that isn’t important really. The fact that I don’t buy books also means an extra expense to down load.
I am nearly there in the decision to buy a kindle but would love to hear other peoples experiences.
I don’t have a Kindle but I have a Sony eReader. I prefer the fact that it is not tied to one supplier (though there are ways around that). I like the leather cover; there is nothing like the smell of a leather bound book is there?
Apart from reading it in bed it goes everywhere with me. At the moment it is loaded with about 100 books I also keep various manuals in it like one for my camera for example so if I want to use a particular facility that I am not familiar with I can look it up very quickly. It saves having to carry about the different bus and rail timetables (though these days my smart phone does all that for me). The Sony is also an MP3/audio player so I can have audio books or music on it as well and listen to the latter as I read.
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I love it! (though mine is black rather than silver)
Love my kindle I can adjust the print size so don’t have to wear glasses in bed which has always been a bit of a bother. Also it’s light and very easy to carry a hundred books or more when I go away for a weekend or holiday - try that with a paper back lol
Oh and I have only paid for about 4 books since I got it as there are thousands of free books on amazon for the kindle.
Bruce You sold me on the ability to carry around manuals:idea: and of course the number of books you can carry in your back pocket and youJulie well you did it when you said about not having to wear glasses in bed oh joy.:shock::shock:
Thank you both, glad I asked I am getting one for my birthday in August but I shall get it before then. Sounds good thanks again.
i love my kindle,esp when out and about.or snuggled up in bed reading with the light.xx
Yep all set now to order my newest friend who will be in colour so that I can play games too.
I have the older version with a light attached to the case. Kindles rock in my opinion :-D. There are 1000s of free titles and you would amazed at some of them. Dickens and so on can be downloaded for free.
My sister has the latest Kindle and it is so much better than my own. She can watch videos on hers and the light is built in - I think.
Great bit of kit :-D.
It sounds it, getting excited, can’t wait to get one and throw off the glasses and put out the light
I have a tablet which will allow me to read books but I find it much more tiring on the eyes than my Sony which, like your Kindle is not backlit.
My only objection to the Kindle is that most people are stuck with Amazon whereas there are epub versions available from all over the world. For example George Orwell is out of copyright in Australia (but not in the UK) so you can get his books from here
If you want to break out of the tyranny of Amazon try this program - Calibre. Just don’t make the mistake or running it at the same time as your normal ebook management program (they will both access the database at the same time and probably corrupt it). Calibre will also convert .epub to .mobi (or what ever format Kindle use) and will also download your favourite newspaper for free if you so desire.
A few free ebook sites for those interested:
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http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/
[URL=“http://librivox.org/”]
http://librivox.org/ Actually that is audio books
I’ve just got around to buying a copy of The DaVinci Code from a second hand bookshop in Grassington. It seems my kind of novel but for some reason I’ve been putting it off, perhaps because of the hype surrounding it, but maybe now I’ve made the first step I might get around to reading it sometime this year…or next …
I am currently reading about three or four books at a time, Shift by Hugh Howey, John Connolly Wrath of angels, The Assassins Prayer by Ariana Franklin and Edge by Jeffrey Deaver, am around half way through each. The Deaver one is driving me nuts though. It is a thriller in which bloke ‘A’ is charged with protecting a family, because bloke ‘B’ , a total psychopath has been paid to eliminate one of them. It is a site more complicated, but that is the ‘nutshell’ version. Anyway, it has been assumed that the one he is after is the husband/father but I reckon not. I spotted the clue a few chapters back, and now am on pins whole ‘they’ catch up with me. Lol
Will just have to take it tomorrow.
Settled down with an Agatha Raisin short story last night just long enough to read the entire thing before I went to sleep. Not as enthralling as the novels but a cracking yarn never the less.
Have just finished reading for the second time ‘Through A Glass Darkly’ by Karleen Koen, it’s a great book, finely written and researched, all about the early eighteenth century in England and France. I have just started reading the sequel ‘Now Face To Face’ by the same author.
It has been interesting reading this thread with everyones different preferences of genres and authors. I do not get the time to read as much as I would like to although I am currently reading “The search for the perfect pub” (a subject close to my heart) that is a modern day version of George Orwell’s “Looking for the moon under water”. The last book I read that I enjoyed the most was Keith Floyd’s Autobiography. Also have read a few Frederick Forsythe novels. Have always thought what an enjoyable lifestyle it must be to be a writer. I am sure it perhaps is not all as glamorous as it sounds.
By the way I always thought that 50 shades was a success due to a vigorous marketing campaign as opposed to a well written book, not that I was even interested to read it.
I just finished ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by T Hardy. Read it a few times now but still revel in the twists and turns. Decided to download ‘Jude the Obscure’ again written by T Hardy (free for the Kindle). Written a year before The Mayor of Casterbridge so should be as good I should think. Pretty sure I have already read it but I’m sure I will enjoy it again.
Got new selection from the library at the weekend and am on The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy.
It’s tales of Emma going camping as a child with her parents and is just hilarious!! Her writing is excellent and makes for an enjoyable read.
Laugh out loud moments usually involve her mother and a long drawn out scream of ‘Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh’.
Was up until gone midnight the other evening as couldn’t put it down.
I’m reading I Love The Illusion about Agnes Moorehead’s life. I never realized how respected she was before playing Endora on Bewitched.
I also love reading books written 100 yrs ago approx
I really enjoyed Silas Marner for e.g.
Sorry, I don’t have authors names at the moment.
I don’t technically have a Kindle Reader but my phone can download Kindle books, so many old ones for free, Charles Dickens, etc etc. I read them on my phone before sleep.
Of course some you have to pay for such as autobiographies but the price is far cheaper than the actual book.
Sorry for rambling on…