Anybody use an E-Reader?

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I picked this up yesterday at Bed Bath & Beyond for $31 after a 20% coupon. It was a bear to set up but worth $30 I suppose. Glad I didn't pay full price. :D
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Sweet deal. XD

For srs. O_o

I may show it to me mom and see if there's one on sale locally...I've been trying to talk her into an e-reader but she doesn't want to pay full price.
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Wow! Interesting. Let us know how it works. Can you download EPub, PDFs and such, too? Can it play audiobooks? I want to be able to download books from our Libary2Go site. I'm think of this more for my wife (her birthday is next month). Hmmm, I somehow need to find a 20% off coupon. We don't get the newspaper, so I don't get coupons.

I use my little iPod Touch screen to read. It's tiny, but works. But my wife is not going to read on it. It's also not that great for reading PDF/Word docs.
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I signed up for their newsletter and got a 20% off coupon right away.

The Literati can read epub files off of the SD Card reader, be warned that the two files I tried had formatting issues and the words were running off the edges. The kobo books I got for free were fine. I haven't paid for any children's book yet but the free ones I grabbed had no pictures just [illustration] tags. Kinda of a waste with a nice color screen.

I don't think it has audio capabilities.

The device itself is a bit slow to load books and updating it took forever! I had to reset it to join my wireless since it didn't support shared key wep I had to throw on a wireless router just for this device! (The Nook has the same limitation BTW)

Be warned that this is a Sharper Image device and they are not doing well financially.

Technical issues aside I got it as something to play around with. I'm glad I didn't buy this full price.
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I use my iPod as an eReader. :D Good stuff really, I had 20ish books on at once but I'm down to 5 or 6. :P Our Library recently started doing eBooks. :D
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Barnes & Noble is selling a refurbished Nook through ebay for $80 for a limited time. I picked up one of these. Looking forward to it coming in soon.
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My wife has a Kindle that she uses quite frequently. Picked up a refurbished iPad (half the price of a new one), and she has gotten iBooks on it. She brings her Kindle to church and follows along in the Holy Bible on it.
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Half priced? Not a bad deal!
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FamilyFriendlyGaming wrote:Picked up a refurbished iPad (half the price of a new one), and she has gotten iBooks on it. She brings her Kindle to church and follows along in the Holy Bible on it.
Yeah that's what I do (I upgraded to an iPhone this last summer, iPod was losing it's hold over me lol) I currently use iBook and the Youversion bible app.
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I used Bible Z HD on my HP Tablet
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I have a Kobo. It is a very basic e-reader but I love it.
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I have an original Nook that I don't use much, only when my phone needs charged. I mostly read on my phone, as I can read in bed after lights out on the Nook App for Android.

We recently picked up a Nook Color for the little kids for their home school. I'm so glad we did. The NookKids Read to Me books have really sparked an interest in our reluctant reader.
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Nice. Yeah my phone broke a while back so I have been "bookless" for 3 months. O_O But my new iPhone should be here any day now. :D
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airpa wrote:Nice. Yeah my phone broke a while back so I have been "bookless" for 3 months. O_O

And people wonder why I read paper....
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Typo meant to put ebookless. I have not been bookless, just all my newer books like Inheritance and my drivers book were on my phone.
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