Please don't loose book reading to online -

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This has probably been mentioned numerous times before, but books are so lovely, to kids, to us -

I love being able to turn off the tv and read to the kids, and when their asleep pick up a book and in quiet read a brilliant story from pages I can turn - even the feel of a book I love - marking a page, everything!

How awful it would be to put this all online, or am I wrong?

It can't help that there are so many badly made books these days.

(These affect Kindle too:)
Nor that there are so many crap authors getting published.
Nor that there are apparently editors who don't seem to know much grammar, nor sub-editors who can spell.....

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen I can't find anything about loaning books on the uk amazon site though. I've even searched their help pages - I must be crap! :)

I get an instant result searching on the US site though.

You can definitely lend books in the UK,I have friends that do it in our book club.

Can't find anything at all about legally lending kindle books via amazon in the uk. Only the us.

Cannot find a thing about lending Kindle books in the uk, maybe your friends are sharing ePub books?

I asked amazon six months ago about lending kindle books and they said not in the uk. Its allowed in America I believe so possibly they've set up amazon.com accounts???

The thing I dislike about kindle books is how the amazon best seller lists are distorted. The top 20 seem full of crap books at 49p each!

I'll ask them next book club

Can I say that as an author I've found this thread fascinating.

I don't have a kindle myself (prefer PBs) but I can see from royalty cheques that ebooks sell far mre than PBs these days.

I'm interestedabout changing the font etc as I go to great trouble with the layout and realise this may get completely screwed if readers change the font size. Don't know hat to do about that actually...

You can borrow books on Amazon's UK website with Amazon Prime membership

The word factory-I've just finished a book which specifically tells you to use a certain font . I'd not seen that before.

The pagination is messed up on Kindle books, there are fewer lines to a page than in PB, sometimes I have been a little irritated by the fact that page change breaks don't seem to be quite as well placed as usual, it was not something I'd ever thought of before. Not enough to deter me though.

We cancelled Prime recently due to the huge price hike but I forgot that I wouldn't be able to borrow books any more, had only done it a few times.

Yes, pagination isn't always perfect in Kindle books but that is the price to pay for changing font sizes. It doesn't bother me.

I don't really mind about pagination, I guess, but I put a fair few documents in my books (court documents, police interviews etc). I try to make them look like the real thing in lay out.

It would be a shame if that got messed up for the reader, I think.

Those documents would presumably be included in the Kindle copy as pictures and therefore cannot be messed up with font changes.

You click on the picture to zoom, then go back to reading when you are done with it.

I don't like the lack of page numbers, though. I don't really care if I've read 47% of a book, I want to know what page I'm on! Small thing, though, and doesn't deter me just frustrates me!

I'm sure you can set it to show page numbers.

Jux - You can see the page numbers on Kindle Paperwhite.

I've got an older Kindle (the keyboard type), the only way to see the page numbers is to press menu, they come up then. It's a bit disruptive though.

Not every kindle book has the page numbers. The one I'm reading now has percentage and location but not page numbers, but the one before had page numbers as well. I like to know where I am in the book exactly, and find it frustrating that the page number isn't there.

I think it's down to the publishers. When you buy a kindle book some say real page numbers included, others don't.

I love books, I love my kobo, I
Love reading, doesn't matter how I do it, I just love it! I have a kobo Arc and at night I set it to night read, black background and white wording, no lights on for the other half and turns itself off when I conk out, beautiful, also have some books I would never buy on kobo, Andrew Marrs History of the world would be only perfect in gigantic hardback version for instance, for handing down to kids purposes etc...