Going between kindle books and physical books

I bought the Amazon Fire last week as I'm seriously running out of space to store my books and thought it would save me money. However most of the books I'm desperate to read are cheaper to buy in paperback!

I read a free copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray at the start of the week and it was awful to read due to the formatting.

I used to reserve books at my local library but that was costing me £1 a book.

I've just got to face facts; I need hubby to buy us a bigger house to store all of my books!

I know you will think I am crazy but I am really not comfortable reading books borrowed from the library. All I can think of is all the unwashed hands touching the pages!
Paranoid!!
My kindle on the other hand just belongs to me, I read about three books a week and I love it. I subscribe to Kindle Unlimited and some books can then be read for free but I still pay for my favourite authors.

I much prefer kindle. I tried a couple of paper books a year or two ago, maybe because they were cheap in the supermarket but really didn't like the experience. Kindle much easier, especially to read in bed.

I track mine on ereaderiq so buy when a pound or two, at 99p it's cheaper than the reservation fee at the library.

It's rare that I pay more than that so the kindle has saved me a fortune, or more accurately, I've had many more books for the same amount of money.

Thanks all.

MsHarry I think she'd find it tricky to study literature on a kindle. I've struggled with a workout book in the gym just cos you can't flick back and forth so easy, can't jot a quick note, compare two passages as easily etc. I love my kindle but it's for reading for pleasure!

Nope. I chop and change between my kindle and print books all the time! Sometimes I might read 2 or 3 in one format before changing but I swap quite a lot. I love both!

I don't intend it to be a replacement for normal books, just an addition for travelling etc.

Interestingly I have just gone onto Amazon to arrange a return and they have refunded the cost incl post and packaging(over £8) and said I don't need to return the book! Result!

I did English Lit at uni many moons ago. I would have struggled with a Kindle as I liked to make notes on my books and mark pages for tutorials . I know you can do that on a kindle but when I have tried it for simple things like book club etc it's always taken ages. But maybe that's just me being a Luddite!

Maybe someone here has a daughter at university studying Eng Lit and could advise?

Sorry meant to say copy of Pride and Prejudice.

Oh imperial x posted!

Oh all good advice thanks. She doesn't need a tablet so would be looking at the Paperwhite version. Had no idea about reading library books on it. I went to my local library (large town) to borrow a few classics. They had no Jane Austen, not even on the system!! I ordered a copy on Amazon and it arrived today and was an A4 amazon version. Very text book looking but it is just the novel inside, no notes or anything. Very strange.

Eg just looked up Jane Eyre in Kindle. 99p. I looked at the one star reviews and the first one said:

not clear that you are getting an almost a4 book with multiple pages arranged in columns on each page. it is not a pleasant way to try to read it and is a non standard format for a book. I went and bought a 'proper' copy from WH Smiths so that i could write notes for each page in the margin as this was purchased for an academic course.

But if you look at the reviews of the classics - the free ones - then often it seems someone's just typed it up or photocopied the pages, so the quality is very poor.

Bear in mind though that the Kindle Fire is a tablet, and some people struggle reading a backlit screen for a long period. She might be better off getting a deducted ereader kindle if she's going to be reading a lot, but then as Imperial said she won't be able to use library books on it. Re cost - lots of the classics are free on kindle, and you can get lots of cheap books for kindle but newer books aren't that cheap in the kindle edition.

And your daughter will need to be careful when quoting Kindle editions, too (though she should ask her tutors about that.)

You can read library books on your Kindle. Or on the Fire anyway. You won't be able to on the Paperwhite, I shouldn't think.

MsHarry, get your daughter a Kindle Fire and a library subscription to the biggest libraries in your area. She should be able to access the university books on there. And a lot of classics can be bought very cheaply on Kindle (though she should check the reviews as some are poor quality.)

I thought kindle versions were cheaper? Was thinking of buying a kindle for my DD as she is going to study A Level English Lit and thought it would be cheaper to buy books and easier to carry around. Am I wrong? I'm a big real book reader myself.

I love my Kindle but can only read 2 or 3 books on the bounce before I need to 'feel' a real book.