ANA Book Club?

[moe]

GREAT idea about the Kindle for all you bookies. It's on my list. I love my books, when I can get to them, but the print is so tiny, and with that vision problem, it just takes too much energy.
Large font books are hard to come by.
I read the posts just to see what everyone is reading. I'm on the first "Girl with the Tattoo series." It just takes me forever to get through them, but once again, slow and steady wins the race
or finishes it at least.
Moe

[dalern]

I have the NOOK by Barnes and Noble.  There are MANY free books and many books under $5.00.  They have a library of over 2 million books, which is far more than Amazon (Kindle) and far more than iBooks.  I do travel a lot, so I love being able to download books and just carry my Nook.  Yes, you can adjust the font, both type of font and size.  Highly recommended.  I have gotten used to not holding a real book.
~Dale

[moe]

Thanks Dale, I'll keep that NOOK in mind

[Soundy]

maybe one day when I am at school with nothing to do I will go borrow a Kindle from the teacher and sit in her reading room , which is set up with big comfy chairs and couches ...,low light from ceiling and tons of lams around chairs and couches ...like a huge living room ...kids that are slow readers come to her daily during reading and just he atmosphere gets them reading with very little remedial work ... I could give the Kindle a test drive 

[yardtick]

I love a good book to snuggle with, I think I will pass on an e-reader. 

I just bought a book called A Classic Christmas "Spiritual Reflections, Timeless Literature, and Treasured Verse & Scripture"  I plan on starting it tomorrow night.

Anne Marie

[Kaybo]

I have to admit that I am considering one for my daughter & I to share...we both love to go right to the next book.  Addi is especially impatient and her time schedule and mine for "running to B & N or the library" usually don't match.  Now that we are farther from both - or the libraries are closed more here (believe it or not) - I think it might be nice to be able to just download the "next" book...

K   

[CHD63]

Hi Kay .....

If you get an IPad, it comes with IBooks and then you can also download the Kindle and Nook Apps (both free) so in my mind you get the best of all three worlds.  The initial cost is more, but it is also a mini-computer.

Just my opinion .....   

Clarice

[EJTampa]

Wanted to chime in.  I got the kindle 3G.  Wow!  Free 3G and I can even check the weather on the national weather service webpage at weather.gov!  I'm in Kindle heaven!
 
I read scifi/fantasy and am currently catching up on Terry Brooks series of Shannara
 
Anyone got any good suggestions for other scifi/fantasy books?
 
Ernie

[msmaggie]

Hi Ernie,
I read a lot of scifi/fantasy and am currently reading the George R. Martin "Song of Fire and Ice" books.  HBO is coming out with the series this spring and I can't wait.  I think the first book is A Game of Thrones.  I had it wrong the first time around.  Sorry!

Priscilla

[leapyrtwins]

No Kindles or Nooks for me.  I'm old school, I guess.  Love to turn "real" pages.

Finished a Harlan Coben book over the weekend called "Play Dead".  Liked it a lot.  Thought I had it all figured out by the end, but there was a plot twist that I didn't see coming 

Am now reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and am really enjoying it.

Jan

[Sue]

I am reading Lee Child's "Jack Reacher" book, 61 Hours.  He is an excellent thriller writer.  I'm glad others read Sci Fi too.  I discovered that when I was in Jr. High.  Just finished a Ben Bova "classic" book, Voyagers.  Different sort of Sci Fi....kind of fun in a dated sort of way.    Anybody read Alan Dean Foster books?  I also have read most of Harlan Corben's books, too.  I usually enjoy them. 

happy reading,

Sue in Vancouver USA 

[Jackie]

Hello Sue,

My husband and I have read ALL of Lee Childs books, and love the character Jack Reacher. We also really like Michael Connelly and his Harry Bosch character, Nelson DeMille is a very good writer, T. Jefferson Parker, John Lescroat, and David Baldacci are all good in our opinion! Hubby is a retired Police officer, so we are really into that kind of literature! We can highly reccomend all of these writers!
Jackie, from Beaverton

[Sue]

Well, guess what Santa brought me?  An iPad!  I still in shock.  So downloaded Apple's reader, and Kindle and another free book thingie, and saw that Nook but the reviews on the application for the iPad weren't very good.  Bummer

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Sue in Vancouver, USA

[Migoi]

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.--Gilbert Highet

I would think would apply doubly to any of the various ereaders... whole generations of minds alive at your finger tips and easily portable.  In the end though...format is simply a personal choice, the key is to be reading.

..thanks for being.. migoi

[dalern]

Saralynn,
I just saw your post and want you to know that the NOOK DOES have international access.  I used it in Africa and was able to download from there as well.  I'm certain it would be the same in Vietnam.  I know you already got the Kindle, and that is fine.  The NOOK also has 3G now, so I am just posting this for information. I used the WiFi on my Nook all over the world and was pleased with the whole process.  I know you can do the same with the Kindle, and certainly the iPad.
~Dale