Bali2010

I love my kindle, but it is a little older than some - called the key pad here in UK now.

• Easy to connect to wifi in uk, 3G also great so far in UK & US
• Buy far more & read more than before - I check the cheap / free books on the top 100 regularly
• I change between real books and the kindle easily & never thought I would though the larger paperbacks / hardbacks seem heavy in comparison now
• The search function on the kindle itself not as good as the full website if I don't know the author - if I do though the text search pulls up a list pretty quickly

I had tried out a kobo a couple of years ago and never got on with that - there was a page turn noise that was unexpectedly irritating - not sure if new models have this.

Editha

I've been using a Kindle for over a year, and have over 150 books on it. Mine has a keyboard. I bought my OH one of the new ones for Xmas. Unlike me, he is a technophobe, so I was prepared to send it back to Amazon if necessary. However, he took to it like a duck to water and downloaded a complete Jules Verne, his favourite author when he was a child. He has already read 10,000 Leagues under The Sea and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Bob

I'm loving mine. It broke pretty soon after Christmas though, but Amazon sent a replacement straight away.

I've finished reading 4 books on it already, so reading much more than usual, because it's pretty much always in my coat pocket if heading out, so can read while waiting for the missus when picking her up and stuff.

It's not as satisfying when there's no heavy thump of closing a finished book, but it is quite lovely and nice.

For the online stuff, check facebook and twitter status on it now and again if the missus is using the laptop and it's okay for it, as a nice little bonus, but I wouldn't want to be online on it, as I don't have the keyboard or touch version.

I'm loving how Calibre is able to get news feeds into article format and emailed to the Kindle in time for morning read, so able to read my old local paper as well as various other news sources while having my cup of tea

Bob

I created a collection called "Current Read" and then put the book I'm reading into that, when finished, I remove it from that collection and tag into a "Read" collection, as well as having all the books tagged by author, makes searching around really easy...but it was a chore to initially organise.

Bob

Use Calibre to convert the format?

The Kobo is also about $30 more expensive than Kindle down my way...library e-book cover is pretty spotty, the Sony books are well covered, but also Kindle, but none for other books, but you download the books to your library account and transfer from that, so could always convert the format.

Bob

Your Kindle is obviously shagged then. Get Amazon to replace it.

There are also a bunch of debug options you can get into to change some network settings to improve connection issue, but I can't remember them off hand, probably google them.

Chookie

I seem to have lost my kindle... can't find it anywhere.

And I am surprisingly upset about it as well!

Piff Poff

I bought a Kobo touch WiFi on Saturday - So far I LOVE IT, I'm 81% through my first book on it.

mikelincs

That's a new one on me, is it just half as long as 20,000 Leagues under the Sea?..

Editha

Nice one. I'm not a Verne fan, myself. Had to stifle a yawn when OH read the passage about the giant squid to me.

mikelincs

I've just downloaded The Midwife, the book the BBC series 'Call the Midwife' was taken from, and Birdsong, which has just been on BBC

ExKiwilass

I got the same one for Xmas and I'm with you. I love it. I like tech though. The only thing I miss about books is being able to read in teh bath. Apart from that I prefer my Kobo. With a Kobo you can also get e-books for free from Canadian libraries.

Chookie

You can still read in the bath... just be careful not to drop it in the water!

I read my kindle in the bath all the time.

dollface

Just been watching that on the Beeb, enjoying it actually.

Piff Poff

I know! I downloaded three at the weekend All it costs is my $10 a year library membership.