Kindling

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Hello there kindlers

I promised I'd buy myself a kindle when/if I reached six months sobriety. Well the goal has been achieved and I want my kindle but can't decide which one. The entry level one or the touch screen. Does anyone have any experience of one or both of the new kindles? What can you tell me that might swing me one way or t'other?

Ta ever so in advance

I have the Touch and I don't see what's so great about it. I would have gotten the original one if I had planned ahead

[gotoseagrl]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Hello there kindlers

I promised I'd buy myself a kindle when/if I reached six months sobriety. Well the goal has been achieved and I want my kindle but can't decide which one. The entry level one or the touch screen. Does anyone have any experience of one or both of the new kindles? What can you tell me that might swing me one way or t'other?

Ta ever so in advance

guess it depends on what all you want to be able to do with it. i can't imagine being without my Fire - it has saved me a few times - but then again i don't have any other pad things. if i did, would probably be ok without all the extras. pretty colors, games, music, netflix & browsing web, on top of the books. i dont know anything about the older versions though. good luck choosing!

[Jesse]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Hello there kindlers

I promised I'd buy myself a kindle when/if I reached six months sobriety. Well the goal has been achieved and I want my kindle but can't decide which one. The entry level one or the touch screen. Does anyone have any experience of one or both of the new kindles? What can you tell me that might swing me one way or t'other?

Ta ever so in advance

I have the Touch and I love it. The battery time lasts for a long time as long as I remember to turn WiFi off when I have finished shopping for books or games. If camping or otherwise reading where light is non-existent or limited, one can see the screen quite well with a small flashlight or a clip-on light. I can't tell you personally if it's better than the original one, or less great than the Fire. I can tell you that I made the decision to get the Touch over the Original one because the Touch has both WiFi and 3-G. The way I made my decision was to weed through the many reviews for each on Amazon. Good luck.

[Kelt]

Anybody else psyched about the new Paperwhite? I am all over this thing.

[LadyRain]

The KoBo reader is bigger then the kindle fire, i like the interface better. it runs any android app you want, and comes in................PINKandsky blue!!!!!

That Paperwhite for the KTouch looks like a winner. If only it was for the entry level K too. I use a small led headlight for reading in low light. To be fair, I don't care if I look a bit odd reading whilst wearing a head light.


After reading all the reviews and taking into account what folks here and elsewhere said I bought the entry level version. The reasons being I wanted physical page turning buttons and to avoid any frustrations of accidentally turning pages by touch the screen. Anyhoo, I lurve my Kindle.

I hoped I might like the Hunger Games Trilogy and in retrospect think it wasn't worth the time I devoted to it.

Currently working my way through the lovely easy reading P.Cornwell, Scarpetta books again...a history of the Tour de France...Henry VIII Mistresses and the Tudor Housewife.

Looking forward to reading today's Kindle Daily Deal - The Pilo Family Circus.

I love that I can take lots of books out with me to satisfy my gnat like attention span.

[Sachita]

I'm VERY excited about the new larger HD Kindle coming out in Nov. I'm not sure I need the 4G since I normally am on wifi when I read or play with Kindle, however at 49.00 a year you can't beat it. I got a Kindle fire right when they first came out. I love it. I use it all the time. I will get the new one, especially excited about dolby sound because I use spotify on it all the time. I'm giving my old Fire to my 19 month old granddaughter who has learned to navigate it quite well to find HER APPS and games.

[SugarFemme]

I have the Kindle Touch, but am also getting the new Kindle Fire HD any day now. It's a freebie!! So I got very lucky. Has anyone gotten theirs yet? What do you think? I'm getting the standard 7" one.

[Arwen]

Anyone need a little sexy reading? http://bit.ly/UpSn3A is byPaisley Smith. It's Civil War era lesbian erotica. Butch/Femme, y'all!and only .99. There's a sequel as well but you should read this one first.

[Medusa]

Anyone find random errors on Kindle books? Like, I have read 3 books in the last month that all had some kind grammatical or EEK, a spelling error!
It's generally not a big deal but is definitely distracting!

[Arwen]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Anyone find random errors on Kindle books? Like, I have read 3 books in the last month that all had some kind grammatical or EEK, a spelling error!
It's generally not a big deal but is definitely distracting!

Self-pubbed books are bad for that. I get annoyed because it is often a case of a lazy writer. I am having my non-fiction professionally edited now. And I expect thate there will still be errors.

Even professionally edited books have things sneak through. Best error ever?

"He rolled over and pulled up the sheep."

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by Arwen

Self-pubbed books are bad for that. I get annoyed because it is often a case of a lazy writer. I am having my non-fiction professionally edited now. And I expect thate there will still be errors.

Even professionally edited books have things sneak through. Best error ever?

"He rolled over and pulled up the sheep."

HAHA! I found one in a book the other day that is by a well-known power-author (with 30 books on the best seller list over the years). It went something like:

The beings creped up the stares.

[Scorp]

Hi Folks,

I got a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 - 16GB for Xmas and I'm in loooove!!! I am addicted to this piece of modern technology. I'm a huge gamer and the graphics are amazing.

Prior to the HD version I received, I had a regular Kindle Fire 7" inch screen which was pretty good, but...the HD is amazing. I have some pretty cool games/apps and if anyone is interested in knowing what they and want to give them a try let me know.

Happy Kindling!!

-Scorp-