Do you have an eBook reader?

[Pam out West]

Thanks Dani,

You've got me interested, and Amanda, I'm still smiling, "I've never tried so hard to spend $300.00 before..." I'm going to have to wait a while since new brakes for my teen's car got the mad money this month (and it still makes me mad!).

[MaryR]

It's not, Dani!    And all of you stay tuned for my February guest here.  Judith Glad is Uncial Press, an ebook publisher. She's going to talk about the ebook market right now and tomorrow.  Last week in the month.

Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor

[Dani]

The full review is now in the most recent LRWG newsletter. 
http://www.thelongridgewritersgroup.com/T6020/rx/wc13/webletter_020810.shtml

[Dani]

ROFL!  Thanks!

[Pam out West]

Dani,

I enjoyed your thorough and practical review of the Nook. You provided a user-friendly insight for the technologically challenged; I felt like I was looking over your shoulder as you discovered the Nook's nuances. Your humorous writing drew me in as I continued to learn.
 
When I want to read for relaxation though, all the downloading/charging/archiving/maintaining seems annoying to me. A paper book pulled from the shelf still wins in ease and efficiency for me: I may be a hopeless nostolgic.

Thanks for a terrific review!

Pam

[Dani]

Pam,

I felt like it would be a burden when the Kindle came out.  I've changed my mind, obviously.  It's not too bad.  It takes less time to archive a book than it takes you to get up from the sofa, walk to the bookcase, find a slot for the book and put it away.  And you don't HAVE to archive.  I just choose to do it. Buying/downloading a book to the nook is done much faster than driving to the store, standing in line, paying, and driving home.  If you order a book online to be delivered to your home, that's still more effort than it takes to download one to the nook.  As far as charging, just plug it into the wall every three or four days when you go to bed and you're good to go.  Piece of cake!    I will still get books from the library, but I'll try to work out a way to get ebooks instead.  Overdrive http://www.overdrive.com/ indicates their software is compatible with the nook.  I just need to read more about it. 

One thing I should've done in the review, was include the software version (1.1).  We received an update (ver 1.2) on Feb 5th that included some fixes.   One that I included in my review pertained to me losing my place when I had to power it off when it froze.  Now if it's powered off it saves the current page being read.

[ajcap]

So, Krill Publishing requested permission to post my review of The Big Grabowski on Amazon.com.  Sure, I says. 

I went into the Amazon site to see if the review was there (it wasn't) and what's the first thing I see?   Kindle now available for shipping to Canada. 

I don't want a Kindle.  I want a nook.  I want it now.  I'll pay for the shipping and customs and whatever costs they want to add, just let me put a Canadian shipping address in the little box.

Margo, I was hesitant at first but there are features I love, like the instant dictionary.  Highlight the words, hit dictionary, go back to reading.  Also, I want to read the book before I buy it. My shelves are full of books I may not have bought (Stephen King's "The Regulator's" leaps to mind) if I had read them first.  I only have so much space.  Plus, the same reason you gave...I always read in bed before the lights go off.  Have you seen the size of "Under the Dome"?