Do you read ebooks?

[shwisha]

I read but only non-fiction.

[Pulsar_t]

Pretty much only read ebooks at this point, with audiobook addiction slowly creeping in

[Opa Opa]

I have a 3rd generation Kindle that I use for books in kindle, mobi, or epub, and a Win8 tablet for pdfs. Before my job sucked, I read alot. But now I go through about a thousand emails a day so I have stopped reading fiction. My wife and I have a couple thousand books throughout the house that we are currently downsizing, but it is a slow process. However Project Gutenberg is my friend.

Nothing can replicate hold a hardback, but being able to carry a library in my pocket is pretty awesome. A reliable color eink reader that can handle strip comics and plate drawing books would make me giddy.

A color e-ink device would be nifty.
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I'm currently using a 4th gen Kindle but I'm looking to upgrade. I'd like to try this out because its running Android with google play so you can install various apps like the Kindle app (so I don't get locked out of my kindle library). Although I cannot find any reviews for it.
For ten fewer dollars I could play it safe and get a kindle paperwhite.

decisions, decisions.

[dsheinem]

I am trying to read more eBooks, but it is hard.

The idea of purging my physical library is non-existent since I regularly go back to many of my books as part of writing/research/prep/etc. The problem with eBooks is that jotting notes in them is just a pain in the ass and so much more time consuming and overwrought than using a pen in the margin. Same with flipping through them quickly, using the index in a meaningful way, etc - these are just so much better done with a physical book.

Basically I have turned to eBooks for some fiction and for non-fiction that I don't intend to notate as I read. I read them on the Kindle App for the iPad.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I've pretty much ditched physical books in favor of my 1st gen Kindle Touch. Absolutely love the thing. I've been reading a lot more because of it as well. So nice and easy to just go to Amazon, hit buy, and start reading a few moments later.

[CFFJR]

Ehhh, ebooks are pretty much out of the question for me. I've tried and just don't enjoy them.

I love my paper and will never give it up. The cracking sounds a brand new hardcover makes, the smell of the fresh paper (or the smell of old paper with history, even better) and that irreplaceable feeling you get when you turn each page...

I love looking at my bookshelves and admiring all the spines with my favorite authors all lined up nicely; while also laughing at myself because some of the shelves are messy and overfilled with stacks and I love seeing that too because books!

As you can see, I love to read, but I also love the physical presence of books.

Ebooks are convenient sure, you can't beat that. But the experience is just not the same.

[dsheinem]

all you readers need to start posting in the "books read" thread if you aren't...

[TSTR]

Now if they made ebooks with Smell-O-Vision, I'd be all on that. Book smell is so awesome.

[marurun]

Now if they made ebooks with Smell-O-Vision, I'd be all on that. Book smell is so awesome.

Old books can be pretty nasty. Stuff that never gets used in libraries gets dusty and musty, and sometimes worse. Spending too much time working on the wrong shelves can give me headaches.

[ExedExes]

Pfffft



Now your ebooks can be like the real thing.

More on topic, yeah I got the KFHD. Read a few videogame books on it so far.