Misc Kindle or Book

[nomifyle]

This had probably been discussed before, but here goes again.

I love books and have a large library. But as I've gotten older it is easier to read on my kindle (actually my phone, but I do have actual kindles).

My concern with having more kindle books than book books is that if there is no power or internet, I won't be able to access the kindle books that are that are downloaded. It seems like the amount that are downloaded are not very many. Maybe there is a way to have more downloaded but I have no clue. And on top of that Amazon can take back what you have.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

This had probably been discussed before, but here goes again.

I love books and have a large library. But as I've gotten older it is easier to read on my kindle (actually my phone, but I do have actual kindles).

My concern with having more kindle books than book books is that if there is no power or internet, I won't be able to access the kindle books that are that are downloaded. It seems like the amount that are downloaded are not very many. Maybe there is a way to have more downloaded but I have no clue. And on top of that Amazon can take back what you have.

It's just my personal preference to have hard copies of everything, including books.

 

[kyrsyan]

For casual reading, e-book. For practical knowledge, dead tree copy.

 

[summerthyme]

I bought a Kindle Fire specifically for books. I download every book I buy (or get free) onto it... generally once a month or so. It isn't connected to the net except when I'm actively downloading. It works fine without any internet access.

I discovered that the Kindle app on my Android tablet and desktop computer didn't work if I didn't have the net. I wasn't amused!

I find I'm very spoiled by the reading apps... especially the adjustable lighting! I can read in bed without disturbing hubby, who got used to my bedside lamp being on when I was reading hard copy books. (I know they sell small book lights)

The ability to adjust print size is also really nice, especially if my eyes are tired.

But I moved over 5,000 books, which are currently boxed up in our storage containers. Many aren't available as e-books, but even many I have as Kindle were important enough to me I didn't want to risk only having them electronically.

Summerthyme

 

[nomifyle]

I bought a Kindle Fire specifically for books. I download every book I buy (or get free) onto it... generally once a month or so. It isn't connected to the net except when I'm actively downloading. It works fine without any internet access.

I discovered that the Kindle app on my Android tablet and desktop computer didn't work if I didn't have the net. I wasn't amused!

I find I'm very spoiled by the reading apps... especially the adjustable lighting! I can read in bed without disturbing hubby, who got used to my bedside lamp being on when I was reading hard copy books. (I know they sell small book lights)

The ability to adjust print size is also really nice, especially if my eyes are tired.

But I moved over 5,000 books, which are currently boxed up in our storage containers. Many aren't available as e-books, but even many I have as Kindle were important enough to me I didn't want to risk only having them electronically.

Summerthyme

i need to dig out my actual kindles and download all my ebooks and then turn off the downloading part, thank for reminding me.

 

[SurvivalRing]

I’ve got six book shelves of hardcopy books, a closet full of boxes of books, and at least a full six foot shelf of books on my side of the bed. I’ve got two 64 gb Kindle Fires with 32gb MicroSD chips. Also have a Samsung Tab E with 32gb of storage and ebooks. The desktop system has 15 tb of storage, with easily an ungodly amount of ebooks from all over.

The upcoming new SurvivalRing library will have probably have over 200k books in digital format. The original had 25k titles on 14 optical disks,

If S really HTF, the kindle and Tab E will be used off my laptop, with a single solar panel hooked up to recharge a couple deep cycle 12v batteries.

My hardcopy Non-fiction books are my version of gold coins…

My Kindle library is way over 35k titles, from ten years of using freereadfeed.com. Most of those titles are downloaded on my computer.

 

[Kayak]

This had probably been discussed before, but here goes again.

I love books and have a large library. But as I've gotten older it is easier to read on my kindle (actually my phone, but I do have actual kindles).

My concern with having more kindle books than book books is that if there is no power or internet, I won't be able to access the kindle books that are that are downloaded. It seems like the amount that are downloaded are not very many. Maybe there is a way to have more downloaded but I have no clue. And on top of that Amazon can take back what you have.

Amazon took a book back early on that shouldn't have been sold (they pulled it and refunded the money), and the whiplash from that was so bad, they've never done it again. They'll pull a book so no one else can buy it, but once someone has taken delivery, it's theirs.

I have every book I've purchased downloaded so I can get to it. It's nice that it's still in the cloud, so if I'm away from home and want to look something up, I can download it on my phone, but if the internet goes away, I'll still have all my ebooks.

My favorite books and series are on a bookshelf in kill-the-trees form, along with some encyclopedias from the seventies and various reference books -- if civilization goes caput, I'll have enough hard-copy books to survive.

As long as we have any power generation, though, a Kindle doesn't take much at all to keep going.

 

[ReneeT]

I like both versions - the kindle is especially good for on the go reading, but the lighting does bother my eyes after a while - I have to shut the lighting down to zero. The Solitare game that is on my kindle is more prone to cause eye strain than just reading. Most of the books on my kindle are ones I wouldn't really miss in an emergency - and I have duplicates in hard copy of the ones I would miss.

My grandsons are on my Kindle account and they love free books. I like it because it's a good way to keep track of what they are reading (sneaky grandma )

I have a couple of the small, phone size, solar power packs; they work great to keep the Kindle (and my phone) charged up on trips and during power outages.

 

[lisa]

Living in a foreign country...Kindles are wonderful! Finding English language books have always been a challenge in our travels and any visit home involved using my extra suitcase space to haul used papaerback books. Now I just carry my kindle whereever we move. I have some hardcopy books still ...which I've always loved and preferrred but I've mostly transitioned to Kindle because of living abroad.

 

[momma_soapmaker]

I have a bookshelf full of books, but I love my Kindle app. Just download each book so you can read it offline. If the book hasn't been downloaded, there's no access to it without internet, but once it is, it's stored on your tablet, phone, etc.

My tablet is easier on my hands than holding heavy books. Plus I can read with the light off and not bother hubby. (Use a blue light filter.)

 

[nomifyle]

I dug my three Kindles out and have them charging. One was purchased in 2012 and is a Kindle Touch, the next one in 2015 is a Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire also in 2015.

Now if I can just figure out how to use them again.

Well the Kindle Touch just turned on and I think I can figure out how to use it. And this one I can turn off wifi so what I have will stay there.

 

[lisa]

Anything downloaded will stay there even with wifi. I have the Paperwhite...best investment .

 

[Pebbles]

I love my Kindle for fast read fiction. I read many theological books and I usually like to underline passages that are important to me so a hard copy is important. Some books I have a hard copy and a copy on my kindle. When I travel it is wonderful to have a copy of special books if I want to read them when I can't take a hard copy with me. To be able to take my Kindle with 100's of my books available to me and time is invaluable to me.

 

[nomifyle]

Since I'm reading more lately I've taken to reading on the kindle on my computer. I don't have to wear my reading glasses to do it either. And one thing I've remembered to do is looking up a word, more to show that my definition is correct than that I don't know the word. Its really handy.

so now I'm on my third rereading of the Pendergast series. I didn't start with the first two, so I'm actually on number 5 in the series.

I've read on my phone until I can no longer focus, if it gets worse I'll switch to one of my kindles so that I can enlarge the font.

The comments on this thread have helped me feel comfortable with the books on my kindles. They are all downloaded on my kindles, but not so on my phone, my phone seems to have a finite number of downloaded books and the remainder are in the cloud. If there was not power the downloaded books on my phone would not be available to me.

I have several hand held battery chargers in addition to my Jackery 260 to keep the kindles charged.

 

[summerthyme]

I love my Kindle for fast read fiction. I read many theological books and I usually like to underline passages that are important to me so a hard copy is important. Some books I have a hard copy and a copy on my kindle. When I travel it is wonderful to have a copy of special books if I want to read them when I can't take a hard copy with me. To be able to take my Kindle with 100's of my books available to me and time is invaluable to me.

FYI, it's possible to highlight passages on Kindle books...

Summerthyme

 

[aviax2]

I love both! A book that I’m interested in re-reading or using as a resource, I want in hard copy. For anything else, especially fiction which I don’t read much of, I prefer the Kindle. I didn‘t download the app to the last phone I got, it’s harder for me to read but I do have it on my iPad. I generally just use my Kindle Fire and it’s small enough to toss in my purse to take with me when I’m going to be away from home and doesn’t take up much room on my nightstand.

 

[dioptase]

We are drowning in physical books here (no exaggeration, DH just bought another bookcase to handle the stacked-on-flat-surfaces clutter and somehow that will have to be squeezed in somewhere) even with triaging some every year. I rarely buy a physical book for myself now, partly because of this out-of-space situation. (Though paper books is DH's preference for all HIS books, partly because he likes the feel, partly because he doesn't like reading books on cell phones or laptops, but also because he simply does not trust that Amazon won't yank any books away from him.)

I've never liked the Kindle devices (neither did DH; he tried to pawn his old one off on me); they are just too bulky for my taste. However I DO have an ever growing Kindle library, which I mostly read on my cell phone, both at home and when traveling. When we're traveling, it's just so convenient to shove my cell into my pocket and go, and then it's there and I can read on the plane without having to hand carry anything around. (In the hotel room, I generally use my laptop as it's easier to read than my cell phone, but I don't like dragging it out on the plane; it stays in its case until we're in our room.)

 

[CGTech]

I have two Kindles, an older paperwhite and the new model (why did they change the way you read the books? the old way worked fine!)
Must have ~38,000 books in my Calibre library, plus enough real books (wall to wall bookshelves) that the wife is starting to get on me to start getting rid of them..... uh, no dear...