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Can you "lend" books on Kindle? On the nook, you can friend other nook users and borrow books back and forth. If you can do that, you can start a thread to lend books back and forth!!!

I have the Nook color. Got it for my birthday in August. It might be more useful to me than to a lot of people, though, because I'm in school. I got almost all of my textbooks for this semester on it through the B&N Store (I'm a history and political science double major, so I read A LOT), so that saves my back from having to lug around a giant bag of books 5 days a week. And the internet browser is great for when you want to quickly look up something in class, check e-mail, etc. and a computer isn't readily available.

I wouldn't have bought it if my laptop was lighter. But I love it, it's great. Hardly any bugs so far, but I do need to figure out how to get Flash stuff to play on it... oh well.

Now, if I wasn't interested in the internet aspects of it, and just wanted a pure e-reader, I would go with B&N's new Simple Touch or whatever it is, or more likely the new $79 Kindle thing.

As far as I know that option is not available for Kindle but I wont be surprised if it does come soon.

I just did some googling about the whole borrowing from the library thing and my local library does that. I never got a library card because Im horrible about remember to take stuff back on time but if I can borrow books on my Kindle app and then it just takes care of itself..heck yeah Im on board with that. I even double checked to make sure that most of the books I do read or books I want to read but am not willing to buy are available and they are. It is awesome since most of the books I want to read are older and arent available to be bought in a store but are in ebook format. So Im gonna be getting a library card and giving that whirl. It would be nice to constantly get new books to read without having to pay for them and then they wont take up all that memory on my phone.

Honestly its kind of amazing how many places have free wifi, I dont use the 3g on mine that much! Many many restaurants offer wifi, as well as a lot of stores now!

You can lend certain books and you can get them from the library. The lending option is only available one time and for only 2 weeks at a time right now, I really hope they change it a little.

If you're not near a computer or wifi hotspot you can browse Amazon or the web for books and download them anywhere. If I'm out walking Jamie and finish a book, I just download another. Ditto on the train, in a doctor's waiting room, when we're in Hungary (the house there has no phone or internet connection), sitting in a park, etc.. I could do it with my smartphone, but that's slower and not as pleasant to read.

I've downloaded > 250 books, over half of them free, and still have over 200 on the Kindle, since I just delete the ones I know I won't want to read again.

Right now I'm re-reading a hardback Mary Stewart trilogy that isn't available as a legal download. It's heavy, I can't adjust the font size, and I'm finding that annoying. I thought I might miss "real books", but find I really prefer an e-reader.

There is one particular website that I LOVE and where you can get pretty much ANY book for free, both old AND new releases. My e-library is currently beyond well stocked. Anyone can feel free to message me if they'd like the web address.

I adore my Kobo, and it goes wherever I go. Yosemite, I too used to think the way you do, but now that I HAVE the Kobo, I can't imagine life without it. I was running out of places to keep books! Also, I would always have to lug around more than one book if I was almost done one...because if I finished one, I better have another one right on hand! Now I don't have to worry about any of that.

My Mom has the Sony E-Reader and also loves it. She reads the same types of books that I do but doesn't have the internet, so all of the books I download, I'll just load on to her Sony whenever she comes over.

The downside is that I dont really go anywhere that has free wifi. I cant even pick anything up at my house. My internet is off my cell phone plan, and if Im going to Mcdonalds where they have free wifi...Im going to eat not read. LOL its a big downside to being a homebody and living in the boonies where you cant get cable or high speed internet..let alone wireless internet. 3g is one of those things where if I spend the money on a Kindle its gonna have to be on it since the few place we do go where I would take it dont have wireless internet, like families houses and dfs work.

I didnt know anything about the lending on Kindle because there arent many people I know who have a Kindle AND read the same books that I read. I am however estatic about the library lending. Im going to the library on Thurs to get a card and give that a whirl. I need to hook my phone up to my comp anyways to back up some pics so Im gonna get some books while Im doing that and give it a whirl....maybe even get some 'real' books while Im at the library. LOL

I have a Kobo and I hate it
It doesn't keep the charge AT ALL and there's nothing worse getting into bed at night to read and realizing your book is dead!

It ticks me the heck off
I've read about 6 books on it, had to charge it daily just to finish the books, it's been shoved in a drawer ever since! I wish I had have gotten the Kindle instead!

Ummm, chicky, I would SERIOUSLY bring it back and exchange it! My charge usually lasts at LEAST 10 days, usually closer to 2 weeks, and I read all the time! Sounds like you got a lemon.

Since Im gonna be checking out this lending thing I downloaded the Overdrive Media Console on my phone.....soooo omg easy especially compared to downloading stuff on my computer then having to hook my phone up via usb to get the books. This little dooberwally app lets me save my library and search thru my library...Now I just need the card and Im gonna give it a whirl. So far its not to bad with the selection. There is a limited number of books availble but the waiting lists arent omg long. I just wonder how slow these other people read. LOL Im a speed reader so going thru two or three books a day is nothing for me.

Plus....once I explained this whole library lending thing to df.....he is actually ok with me wanting a Kindle now so its officially off the one day list and on the saving money for list....oh yeah woo woo!!!!!!

I don't know if they will. The NookColor is a huge seller at the $249 price. If they DO reduce it, my husband may break down and get one. My DD is getting one for her birthday on Saturday.

My Mom got it in Moncton and I threw out all receipts, etc.....cause I tend to threw everything in the garbage.

When you look up the Kobo reciews on Chapters, that't the #1 complaint is they dont hold their charge that's why I never bothered calling the company or trying to get it returned. I'm definately not the only one with that problem.

You WALK your cat? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! And also the most awesome. I wonder if Boots would like that...

Wow, I'm glad I lucked out then!

A friend at work (actually the one you went to school with) got a Kobo for her birthday and threw out the receipt. A couple months later it wouldn't boot up completely, screen would go black. She was SO worried because she's addicted to it, that they wouldn't exchange it without a receipt, but she took it in, and they had no problem giving her a replacement. Might be worth a try?

The basic kobo is only $109 at Wal Mart. That is where I got mine.

I have no problems with the charge on my kobo. I've had it since the beginning of August and have only charged it once, but it hasn't been used in over a month. I'm sure I need to charge it when I go to use it.

Yep, every day. I use a dog harness and leash, because he can get out of a cat harness in a couple seconds flat. We don't go far, because he likes to hunker down and stalk birds, mice, etc., so I need reading material with me.

There are a couple of threads about harness-training cats. I'm definitely not the only member with a leash-trained cat.


Brandy, do you have the WiFi turned off when you're not downloading books? My Kindle (II) doesn't have WiFi, but the battery life isn't great with the 3G turned on; I can go a couple of weeks without recharging when it's turned off, and I read an hour or two a day, more on weekends. I notice a big difference in my smartphone's battery life when I have WiFi turned off.

I haven't read through all this but I have a basic Nook (and I'm in Canada), so I thought I'd chime in.

I bought my Nook when I went to the states with my mom back in the spring. It was $149, but as someone else mentioned, they have dropped considerably. My reading has gone up so much that I'm reading about 5 books a week now and reading things that I probably wouldn't have picked up in the bookstore.

I will also admit that I don't pay for my books - new or old. I do download them illegally from a forum/torrent site. If it's a book from one of my favourite authors, I will buy it. If I've downloaded a newer book for free and liked it, I will buy the next book I read by that author.

I can transfer books wirelessly with my nook, but I do it mostly by plugging in it because that's pretty much the only time I charge it.

I have also browsed webpages with my nook in areas that have free wifi, the pages look a little funny because they're in b/w but it is easy to do once you get used to that.

I have also downloaded free books from the Barnes and Noble website. You just click buy, enable the wifi on your nook, go to your library and search for new content, then click on the book that you just "bought" and it will download it directly to your nook. You can also download directly to your computer, which is what I do with free books from Chapters, then plug in your nook and transfer it over.

My nook is always on (either in sleep mode or being used) and the battery still lasts for about a week. I add new books about once a week and charge it then.

For those in Canada that are thinking about getting a Nook, but are concerned about the part where they say that you can't download books to it - it's not true. You just have to register the Nook to a US address (I used the B&N store's address), then put in a credit card number and billing address (doesn't matter if it's Canadian or not). As long as the "shipping" address is American, they don't care.

So why did I go to the states and get a Nook vs the Kindle or Kobo that I could have bought here? At the time I bought it, you couldn't borrow books from the library that were in the Kindle's format. I didn't like the menu on the Kobo and I didn't like the contrast in the screen, it made my eyes tired reading it no matter what the screen size was. The Nook has/had better contrast and an easier to use menu, IMO. I still like it much more than the Kobo or the Kindle and I'm definitely very happy with my purchase.

Well hopefully the $400 is worth it and you win the car!!!! Good luck!!!

I imagine there will be even more tablets being put on the market soon, so the prices might drop even more.

I currently have an iPad 2 and read on that. Im considering buying a kindle for my mom for christmas, but I'm not sure- can you just open any file format on a kindle the way you can in iBooks?? That's the only thing that's making me reconsider, because I have about 20,000 books on my computer that I've collected, that are in the ePub  file extension, and each time I want to read one of them I just email them to myself and open the book in iBooks...I want to be able to share my library with  my mom when I get her a kindle but I don't know if it will be possiblthat does anyone know?

If you do not like more your Ipad2, I know of someone who can take it...


....jus kidding!..

 

I have both the kindle app and the nook app on my ipad. Sometimes, if I am looking for a book that I can't find for free anywhere on the internet, I buy it on the kindle app...But 9/10 times I still use ibooks over both of them...Why? - You can't load your ebook files into either the nook or the kindle apps- you have to physically get the books through their stores..And the majority of the ebooks I have are sitting on my hard drive as .epub files, or I can get them as .epub or .mobi files for free somewhere online..
The only files you can load onto the kindle and nook apps are PDFs, and reading an entire ebook in PDF is not really convenient.

Before the ibooks app came along, I used this other app called "Stanza" and loaded my files onto that, because it was the only app that would allow that...

 

I just wasn't sure, if I get the physical Kindle or Nook, it might be different than just having the app- I might be able to upload a file that wasn't downloaded from their store and read it?? I don't know...

 

DH bought me a Kobo for Christmas last year, and I have to admit I rarely use it.  I've downloaded a couple of books, but haven't read them. (and I read constantly)  I like to just pick up a book, read what I want, then lay it down.  I'm a "spontaneous reader", for lack of a better term.  I pick up a book, read a chapter, then I'm off doing something else.  Waiting for my little machine to boot up, then having to find the book I'm reading, then having to shut it down---I can have my chapter read before I get thru all the fuss with the e-reader.  (and no, I didn't ask for one; DH did that on his own; my first thought was to take it back because I knew I wouldn't get much use out of it, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings)

My kobo only takes like 30 seconds to turn on and the books I am currently reading are on the home page when you turn it on. Just click and it goes right to where you left off. I didn't use my kobo much but recently have started to and I use it almost every day now.