Do you Kindle?

[Dave1442397]

Books can only obtained through amazon, however there are a fair amount of things that are free on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.ht...reative=390957

Actually, you can get books anywhere, in any format, and use Calibre e-book manager (calibre-ebook.com/) to convert them to Kindle format (or any other format you may need) and store them in your library. I find that very useful as I have a lot of older PDF and DOC format books from the early days of e-publishing. It's nice to get them all in one library where I have easy access to them.

[C.W. LaSart]

Ahh I live in the suburbs, everything is close, but the small bookstore is a bit of a rare beast.

Small town-very lucky that we have a book store at all, but there is a group of book lovers that got angry when waldon books closed and opened their own

[RJHubbard53]

i've become a bit OCD with my books so don't like to read them. I dont buy paperbacks and when I do read it is at the beach, pool, or on the boat so I dont like to take my hard covers to where they can be messed up. I've learned to love my kindle; especially the 3G that I got - i can buy whatever I want, whenever and wherever I want it. it's awesome!

[Dan Hocker]

We have a small book store in my town that I love-but the nearest big store is an hour and a half away-it's Barnes and Noble but I will take what I can get!

Ahh I live in the suburbs, everything is close, but the small bookstore is a bit of a rare beast.

[peteOcha]

At least you have options. All I have is 1 bookstore that sells books in English. And the selection there is that of a very small bookstore. There are some others that have books in English, but they are limited to specialty books or they just have a small shelf of some well known classics. So most of my stuff is orders; amazon, CD, etc. Just tried HPB today for the first time...

[C.W. LaSart]

We have a small book store in my town that I love-but the nearest big store is an hour and a half away-it's Barnes and Noble but I will take what I can get!

[the_last_gunslinger]

At least you've all got book stores in your immediate vicinity. About once a year, I go to Birch Run, Michigan and they have a Borders there as part of the outlet mall, but that's a two-hour drive one way. And I'm not big on used book stores (most of them have closed down around here anyway) but I hate how the mar the books with price stickers and pencil marks. I want my books to be pristine.

[Dan Hocker]

I guess what I was aiming at was more of the destruction of the brick and mortar stores that I so love. There is no greater place for me than a bookstore.

Ahh I got ya. Brian and I where just commenting the other day on how we miss Borders Books, as they all closed up by where we live, and neither of us really like Barnes and Nobel. I never was a "mom and pop" store kind of guy though, I want the deal, and the bigger stores and online sellers will be able to give that to me sadly.

[C.W. LaSart]

I guess what I was aiming at was more of the destruction of the brick and mortar stores that I so love. There is no greater place for me than a bookstore. I realize that e-format is still publishing, but it has done some harm to bookstores. I have come to a peaceful compromise with my reading habits. I do like my Nook-but it will never compare to an actual book. I like being able to conserve space though.

[Dan Hocker]

You know Dan, some days it's like I don't know you at all!!!

Technically we've never met....

[bsaenz24]

I'm not one the necessarily cares about the feel of the book or any of that.

You know Dan, some days it's like I don't know you at all!!!

[Dan Hocker]

I was really torn on the whole E-reader subject and still am a bit. Here's the link to my very first ever blog post where I talk about how they make me feel http://www.cwlasart.com/?p=1

It was a very good blog post. The one little thing I have to poke at is the thought that the e-reader is "destroying" the publishing business. It's really not the case, if anything it's destroying the printing business, but publishers love e-books because they require so little work on their part.

I'm not one the necessarily cares about the feel of the book or any of that. I do like having them on my shelf, but the e-reader is a wondrous thing. I can carry an entire library of books with me wherever I go, all in my pocket. I even find myself buying books I already own for the e-reader. The original can sit looking all "pretty" on the shelf and I just read it off the e-reader. I've eve gone so far to buy some books by some of my favorite authors, in e-reader form before I have bought the hard cover. Granted this is mostly because I want 1st printings of the books and haven't come around to them yet in my "list of things to buy" yet, but still.

[MrRoland]

Caren, your blog sums up my main reason why I've resisted getting a Nook or Kindle, the missing of the other senses, especially the tactile sensation of holding the book in my hands. That and placing it on the shelf for it to await the next time I read it.

[C.W. LaSart]

I was really torn on the whole E-reader subject and still am a bit. Here's the link to my very first ever blog post where I talk about how they make me feel http://www.cwlasart.com/?p=1

[MrRoland]

I have a Kindle app on my Android phone, so there are a few classics I have on there that I'm reading. It's not bad, but impossible to gauge your progress through the book.