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To: Mad Dawgg

I forgot about the page turning feature ... my pastor showed me his and I was impressed.


34 posted on 09/11/2014 9:54:31 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: knarf
Yes, I had a Palm handheld computer years back and my main reason for getting one was digital books. The nearest REAL bookstore to me is 90 minutes one way. This is Hell for someone who sometimes reads 2 books in a day (not talking about door-stopper novels but shorter works with around 400 pages or less like novellas and how to books etc.)

I hated the scrolling up and down even though they had it set so it would snap to the next page it just "felt wrong" I loved the fact I could go online in the middle of the night when insomnia had me in its clutches and with a few clicks of the mouse I had a new book to read. The screen was too small the scrolling annoyed me and the book selection was terrible BUT I could usually find something. BUT after a while the prices started rising and I was not going to pay over ten bucks for a digital download of text WHEN I COULD BUY A PAPERBACK FOR LESS!

So eventually I gave up and went back to Dead Tree Media.

Then a couple of Christmases ago Mrs. Dawgg said we should get Kindles for Christmas. I wanted no truck with it. I had found loads of FREE PDF books online and I could read them on my laptop. I even had a nifty little handheld mouse that allowed me to use my thumb to navigate the PDF (still used up and down scrolling) this allowed me to place my laptop on a small stand and I could lay in bed and read or sit in a chair too and flip through the book using my thumb. I was in heaven.

Christmas comes and I am handed a box and in it is a Kindle Fire. I think great, another digital eBook reader that will charge me mega bucks for books when I can read for Free on my laptop. Then I started messing with it and started reading the book supplied with it and WOW it acted like a real book. Then I found literally THOUSANDS of Free and Legal Kindle eBooks online and the rest is history!

I will still buy really good copies in Dead Tree Media format but they will be leather bound on archival paper etc. Or when I can get a regular copy signed by the Author. But otherwise it will be eBooks for me!

39 posted on 09/11/2014 10:42:58 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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