Thread: Electronic Readers

Thanks Craig.
Crikey, whats the world coming to !!!
I have never seen an Ipod or any of those fancy gadjets, dont want to.
I had a mobile phone thingy for emergencies when my wife was alive but
when she died I got rid of it.
Dont see the need to ever get another one.

Thanks.

Robert.

PS: I dont need to be in constant touch with people for whatever reason.
I never get lonely.
I prefer to talk to myself !!!
Sometimes it amazes me, I go somewhere and nine out of ten people have their heads down fiddling with a phone thingy. You cant talk to them, the reply is usually along the lines of : yeh no, eh.

PS: to the above.
I notice more and more, out and about and on telly, that people giving a positive responce to a question, shake their head from side to side.
Is it just me going off me head ?

I havent read an E book but I recently purchased a CD set, talking book thingy.
Another Upfield Bony book entitled : Venom house.
This worked well because I got new hearing aids.

I was having trouble reading with cataracts on both eyes but all good now
with new lens implants.

Yes sometimes the technology is a bad thing. My wife and i struggle sometimes with limiting our kids with the amount of screen they have. It has such a detrimental effect on them sometimes. I love it as now i can stay in contact with my family while away for work (FIFO) so there definately some benefit.

To answer your head shaking thing. Im pretty sure in a couple of cultures shaking the head from side to side is an affirmative action.... (im sure ive read that in a book somewhere) Now to me its strange but obviously to them its not. However if it was some aussies doing that then im not sure what that is ??

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTAt2hI_kg]No no no no: The Best of Jim Trott - YouTube[/ame]

Ian,
I bought an Ipad for the missus, one reason was to use it to read books.

It does lots of other stuff and is a reasonable coffee table device but I hate it to read books due to the back lighting.

I borrowed a basic kindle from someone at work and found it much easier on the eyes for reading( no back lighting). I am going to buy one myself - eventually.

I understood it works through the 3G system free - but you pay for what you download. So not restricted to wifi - as mentioned above. Pretty sure that is how it works.

I plan on getting the entry level kindle for reading novels and newspapers etc.

we bought the kindle touch screen from amazon for the mil christmas before last, six months later we bought the fil the same thing. they love their kindles and the space they save having all the books on the one device and ability to add new books over wifi works really well for them.
as others have said the ereader screens are so much easier on the eyes for long time reading, you can get some for under a $100 at bigw so give it a try.

Readers of this thread may be interested in this blog post by my brother.

Looking at how eBooks are made | L. R. Denham

John

The only reason I favoured a Kindle was while doing some research I came across a questionnaire asking what features I wanted. On completion, the Paperwhite and I-pad were neck and neck but ahead of all others. One important feature to me is that it can be read under all light conditions, daylight, artificial light and darkness. Surely I will require backlighting?