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Anybody on here use one? 🙂 I don't personally, but was just wondering all the same 🙂
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OH has a Kindle, I have an iPad. Great for going away in the motorhome with...

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I use an iPad too, and do have the iBooks app, just don't hardly ever use it that much 😛
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I love the feel and look of a real book still. They are a good idea though when they hold so many books. A library at your fingertips.

 

Woman Happy

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So do I 🙂 I will never abandon my proper paperback books, ever 🙂
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@rose2008-2008 wrote:

I love the feel and look of a real book still. They are a good idea though when they hold so many books. A library at your fingertips.

 

Woman Happy


"The new Kindle is great, and yet you can't beat the look and the feel and the smell of a traditional old Kindle."

 

Graeme Garden

 

 

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I had a kindle, then I bought a Sony tablet, I have the Kindle app installed on that, and my daughter claimed my Kindle.

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My daughter gave me a kindle with 200+ books pre-loaded, and I hate it! I love her for giving it to me, I live on a boat and space is at a premium, but to hold, feel, turn the pages of a real book is such a part of ME, and has been for over 60 years, a Kindle could never, will never, replace that. I still have loads of unread books, but I'll have to use the Kindle eventually, and I'm just hoping I'll get used to it 🙂

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@greenunicorngirl wrote:

...  but I'll have to use the Kindle eventually, and I'm just hoping I'll get used to it 🙂



I sympathise. 

 

I loaded the free Kindle app to my little netbook computer.  The netbook is not much bigger than most handheld devices.  It fits in my shoulder bag quite easily.  I have downloaded a lot of free Kindle books and I've paid for a few but when it came to a book I really wanted I found out where my loyalties lay.

 

The Kindle edition could be had for £1.75.  The cheapest on Amazon Market Place was £45+.  I wanted the real book so much that I spent a long time looking for it.  I've just spemt £10 in the the hope of getting a good copy.  I really didn't want to read it on screen.

 

For me, Kindle books on my computer are a reserve back-up in case I run out of real books when on holiday.  Long may my motorhome (or barge, green unicorn girl) have room for hard copy.


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I must admit that I do really like the look and feel of a Kindle Fire 🙂
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I've got 3 shelves which hold our most precious books, but they're full so no space for new ones:-(

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You could always start stacking them up against the wall sides instead like I do 😉 😛 😄
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@queenelsa83 wrote:
You could always start stacking them up against the wall sides instead like I do 😉 😛 😄

Have you got a boat as well?

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I've used a kindle for about 3 years now, I found holding a book hard on my hands (I've rheumatoid arthritis) I love real books but the kindle is great for me, lots of free books too Smiley Happy



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Hi Pinkie, same reason I bought a Kindle, I was having difficulty turning pages.

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Hi Lady M, keeping well I hope heart

 

I found that I'd read more books on my kindle (or dingle as I used to call it cause I couldn't remember the name of the thing) in 3 mths than I had the whole of the previous year.



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I was given a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas and they do have loads of advantages as already mentioned.

 

However, I do agree about the pleasure of turning pages, the smell of books, the variety & appeal of dust-jackets and of course, some beautiful illustrations which always appear better on paper (to me anyway).  I have some beautifully illustrated books which are a pleasure to browse through and I don't believe Kindle will ever replace those. 

 

I wait to be proved completely wrong of course Smiley LOL

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