I don't like my kindle.

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I like real books. Is that old fashioned? Tried to read it in the bath, and put it in the wallet the wrong way round. Pressed the wrong button and deleted my book.

I love books and reading too, and I wouldn't be without my Kindle now, I only have the most basic version, but it does me fine.

I still buy books as well though, and for my favourite authors I will always buy the book, and I recently bought I Am Malala in hardback, because it has photos in it, and my Kindle is no good for that.

But I can have 1500 books on my Kindle!

love books and love my kindle, never thought I would but I find my fingers trying to turn the corner of the page when I am engrossed. I still buy the books for my collections and I still browse the second hand shops for bargains. you can have it all and you can lend friends books from your amazon account if you really want to.

Being a massive book lover, I never wanted a kindle until DH got one and I borrowed it to read The Hunger Games. I loved it. The way you can carry so many books, it's effortless to turn the pages. I still love books but kindles are just so practical.

I just think a book is more than the paper it's printed on. They're ideas, thoughts, feelings. Admittedly though kindles don't smell as nice.

I have both, and I like both. One of the things I like about the kindle is being able to adjust the font size so that it is easily readable (eyesight changing now, as I get older).

You won't have lost the book. It is stored in your Amazon cloud, and will likely have just gone into the archive.

Ha ha life I am the other way, I try to turn the pages on my real books by pressing down on the side of the page . Also find myself glancing at top of page for the time.

I also buy the real book where I have a collection and go to second hand shops etc or buy new books if there's a good deal on.

The Kindle is brilliant for holidays though I think that's when it comes in handiest.

Don't get hung up on having to pay for a "virtual" book. The value in a book is in the reading, not the owning.
I have a Kobo Glo btw, and it's perfect.

Oh how I love my kindle!

I have the app on my phone and iPad too and I love getting in bed in the dark and reading my kindle. It's my sacred bit of me time in my otherwise non stop days!

Or reading a bit of my book while I'm waiting in the Indian on a Saturday night or hospital las week when them made me wait 3 bloody hours for an x ray

I loved mine for about a year after I bought it but now rarely use it because I prefer real books, which I think, as a PP says, is because we use more senses when reading them. I've about 20 kindle books i still haven't read. I'm also quite a Luddite (write letters now and then and can't be arsed with social networking) so that's a part of it also.

I have the iBook & Kindle app for iPad, I switch between audio books (amazon & iTunes accounts) for when I'm on the underground and digital copies for my son as he chomps through books, Kindle's indispensable in our home.

Love my Kindle, bought one for my mum and she didn't like it and gave it to my sister

Re the pricing of kindle books, I buy the vast majority when discounted. One of the best times to buy is after xmas into the first week of Jan- the Ten Days of Kindle, when they have a HUGE number of best sellers at 59- 99p or less. I stock up for the year.

sorry for sounding like an Amazon advert

Glad I started the thread, a few good tips on here, thanks!

Free books needn't mean crap books, just download out-of-copyright stuff. The 19th century produced nearly all the books that are set works nowadays. In the last few years I've read many classics that I'd missed previously, including

Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Dostoyevsky: The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler, Crime and Punishment
Brontes: All the books by all the sisters, had only read half of them before.
Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh. Erewhon, Erewhon Revisited.
Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness, currently reading "Under Western Eyes."
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus (1920's Science Fiction by a first world war veteran.)

That's just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

Now that I think about it, I'm lying about Tolstoy, I read that in paperback, the free editions wouldn't have footnotes translating the French the characters speak to each other, I have no French so would have been lost without footnotes, which my free editions don't have.

I actually had read Heart of Darkness more than once before, but a few days ago DD was fiddling with reader and managed to leave it open in that, I read from there and then re-read the whole book and it a completely different experience from the previous times I read it, I think this is the first time I've managed to slow down and really take in the deliberately dense writing. Someone needs to make a impressionistic over-the-top film to really try and capture it. ("Apocalypse Now" was over-the-top but realistic.)

I have a hundred or so free classics I haven't read before queued up on my reader, lots more on the internet when those are read.

Comparing a kindle to a book is like comparing an MP3 player to vinyl.

If you just want the content then a kindle is a brilliant way of carrying thousands of books around.

I love my kindle, but all my cookery books are - books.

My sis gave me her kindle fire when she bought an iPad. I didn't think I'd use it much, then I discovered mumsnet......

When my eyesight starts to go is the day I will get a kindle.

Then and only then.

Reading with interest as I have decided to ask Father Christmas for a Kindle or at least some kind of e-reader. There are already about 2000 actual books in the house, even with regular purges of stuff I bought and didn't like.

But I mainly want an e-reader because I actually need one, to be able to keep up with colleagues and competitiors and read my OWN farking books as publisher will not commit to paper print run.

if you're reading a thriller, you can tell you're near to the end of the book because of how it feels in your hand. You can flick pages to see whether you're near the end of the chapter. It's not the same seeing "97%", is it?

My Kindle tells me how long is left in a chapter based on my reading speed.

I love it. I never thought I would as I adore real books but the pluses of a Kindle outweigh the lack of a real book for me now.

As someone else said, I am never without my book as I have the app on my smartphone - nor ideal for reading on but better than nothing.

I have read it in the bath without putting it in a cover because I am reckless. TBH I have dropped perhaps two books in the bath in my entire lifetime and as I can hold the kindle in one hand, I can hold it away from the water anyway if I wanted to.

I love being able to order a book and have it immediately. I love that DSs and I can read a book at the same time without having to wait for the other to finish (not that this happens a lot :))

I started with a Kindle Touch last summer, upgraded to a Paperwhite last Chrismas and gave the touch to DS2 as one of his presents. I've just upgraded to the new Paperwhite and shuffled the Kindles down so DS1 has the Touch and DS2 the old Paperwhite. Last month, Amazon replaced the Touch without a quibble as the power/home buttons stopped working.

I've got two different little tablets come e-readers because one broke under guarantee and eventually they replaced it, but it took a while and during the wait I missed it so much that I bought another.
Neither of them are kindles, so I got the kindle app and the overdrive app which allows me to borrow from the elibrary section of my local Council lending library and all the borrowing is free.
I was quite anti at first, but since I started to suffer from insomnia it's a really good idea to be able to read without putting the bedside lamp on and disturbing DH. Well, I do disturb him I suppose, but not nearly as much and at least I'm not just lying there bothering about whether I can sleep or not.

I don't get kindle hating - It is not a person it is a piece of technology - I use it like any other technology - once paper books were the latest tech - and the printing press revolutionised the world - now we have the ability to carry a lifetime of books with us. It is incredible and I still like printed books - still own hundreds of them.

Re reading in the bath - I do read in the bath with kindle propped up in case and if I deleted something by accident it would be annoying but easy to rectify as nothing is truly lost in the 'cloud' - whereas I have ruined a book dropping it in the bath... would NOT recommend dropping kindle in the bath though!

I was always a die-hard 'proper book' person, swore blind that I would never get on with a kindle...Oh, dear god, I LOVE mine now. My tip would be to put 'free kindle books' into the amazon search bar. I haven't had to pay for a book in ages, and I have had experience of authors I never would have tried!

I'm an avid reader, like my kindle but mostly I use it to read samples, if I like the sample I'll buy the paper book.
I much much prefer paper books

Just don't do what I did and get a kindle fire thinking it would be the best of both worlds. Crap as a tablet AND crap as a e reader. I stopped it for a paperwhite and love love love it.

Took me a few months but I love mine now. Too much really as I'm reading almost like I did pre-DC.

However I am trying to de-cultter the house so less book is good at minute and I've never found people who really wanted books - and we'd already given loads to charity shops who round here don't always want books.

I'm also reading a mixture of free classics and non taxing bit crappy free book. I'm still managing to spend to much - I've discovered several new authors I love - I am a sucker for following entire series and they often make the first one free.

I've resisted a Kindle so far, but we have absolutely no room for any more bookshelves in the house.

So, I'm at the point of seriously considering a Kindle, but can't make up my mind which would be best. Touch? Fire? Paperwhite? Or do I go for a Kobo?

Do any of you have recommendations? (Or words of warning?)