eReader recommendation
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Hi all,
thank you for your replies.
Quite interesting, 3 person recommending 3 different devices
slmkhoo, may I know where did you get your kobo? I look at Amazon and they are selling the kobo glo at a higher price than Kindle paperwhite. I like the fact that it has expandable slot which is missing from KPW.
Bakergirl, I suppose you usually get books from Amazon? Can it use to netsurf (I know that Kobo and BN can)?
ChiefKiasu, I am not as technical as you LOL. Funnily though, the reviews for BN does not seem to be as good as the other two. -
leo:
slmkhoo, may I know where did you get your kobo? I look at Amazon and they are selling the kobo glo at a higher price than Kindle paperwhite. I like the fact that it has expandable slot which is missing from KPW.
I bought our first one online from the Kobo website, possibly from Borders, but I can't remember exactly. My 2nd was bought last year from a seller on Taobao (I live in China at the moment). I have 2 Kobo Touch so I can't comment on the Kobo Glo or Paperwhite. So far I have not even used a quarter of the memory on my ereaders, so I haven't felt the lack of the expansion slot.
I don't know if it matters to you, but both Kindle and Nook are actually not supposed to be sold in Singapore. To buy them, you need to have some kind of work-around with credit card or registered addresses or use a vpn, as far as I've heard. I picked Kobo because there are no restrictions and there are lots of free EPUB books available. -
There are many 3rd party resellers for Kindles and Nooks in Singapore. No need to buy through e-commerce if you are not comfortable with the shipping charges.
Regardless of what you use, you will not do without the http://calibre-ebook.com/. It is free and works with all the readers I have. I get to properly manage my thousands of e-books with reviews, covers, ratings, etc. It's like my own personal local library. The built-in convertors make it easy for you to create the appropriate version of e-book for your reader. -
ChiefKiasu:
Hi, Chief.There are many 3rd party resellers for Kindles and Nooks in Singapore. No need to buy through e-commerce if you are not comfortable with the shipping charges.
Regardless of what you use, you will not do without the http://calibre-ebook.com/. It is free and works with all the readers I have. I get to properly manage my thousands of e-books with reviews, covers, ratings, etc. It's like my own personal local library. The built-in convertors make it easy for you to create the appropriate version of e-book for your reader.
May I know where in Singapore can I send my Nook for repair? I bought online from B&N, it'd be too troublesome to send back to USA for repair.
It repeatedly shut off after turning on for 5-10mins, i can't launch any of my ebooks :sad:
Please help, TIA. :thankyou: -
Harlequin:
Err... you may be out of luck. Did you buy it in Singapore or from the US? If you bought it from a local vendor, you can try to get him to do it for you. I bought mine at http://trendsmobile.com/main1/default.asp, you may try to see if he is willing to repair it for you for a fee.
Hi, Chief.
May I know where in Singapore can I send my Nook for repair? I bought online from B&N, it'd be too troublesome to send back to USA for repair.
It repeatedly shut off after turning on for 5-10mins, i can't launch any of my ebooks :sad:
Please help, TIA. :thankyou:
BTW, digital paper e-book readers don't really \"turn off\". It uses power only to rearrange the bits and then it is off automatically. If you turn off wifi, it consumes next to no power on standby. -
ChiefKiasu:
I bought it from B&N online store.... Oh, dear; no where to repair it in Singapore? :faint:
Err... you may be out of luck. Did you buy it in Singapore or from the US? If you bought it from a local vendor, you can try to get him to do it for you. I bought mine at http://trendsmobile.com/main1/default.asp, you may try to see if he is willing to repair it for you for a fee.Harlequin:
Hi, Chief.
May I know where in Singapore can I send my Nook for repair? I bought online from B&N, it'd be too troublesome to send back to USA for repair.
It repeatedly shut off after turning on for 5-10mins, i can't launch any of my ebooks :sad:
Please help, TIA. :thankyou:
BTW, digital paper e-book readers don't really \"turn off\". It uses power only to rearrange the bits and then it is off automatically. If you turn off wifi, it consumes next to no power on standby.
The screen black out, nothing can be activated; so I would have to manually off it with the on off button and to restart again; but 5 to 10mins later, it auto switch off/black out again! :imdrowning: -
Oh, TrendMoblie, I will pay them a visit. Thank you very much!
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thanks for all the advice.
Think I will try to look for a local set first (lazy me ). -
I bought a Kindle 4 from a local seller on this forum about 2 years ago. I read on it daily and it is still working well. I store over a hundred PDF files on it and still havenât used even half of its capacity. Amazon e-books take up even less space than PDFs. So I havenât felt the need for an extension slot.
I agree the text-to-speech feature would be great for kids, but it would be very "mechanicalâ or robot-like, wouldnât it? It would not be the same as listening to an audio book, I think. I sometimes play a classic audio book from librivox.org while my dd opens the same book on the Kindle. That works well enough for her.
I would recommend a Kindle 4 or Paperwhite. -
I have a kindle paperwhite.
Am loving it. It's really a good idea to get a reader that functions on e-ink. It's so easy on the eyes, and the paperwhite is a real plus cos it adjusts the lighting level according to ambient lighting. I also wanted something that would function in a dark room (earlier versions of the kindle wouldn't), cos I wanted to read at night in bed, or when my kids were napping.
I find it slightly heavier than expected though, but still lighter than lugging tomes around, esp since these days I read on public transport too.
So far I've functioned ok just reading what's freely available on gutenberg.org (lots of stuff I'm interested to read), and the free online converters are useful in converting whatever PDF or online material into kindle format.
Battery life is great. Hardly have to charge it though I use it daily.
I also did a blog post on this which you can find http://littlebluebottle.blogspot.sg/2013/04/kindle-some-lurve.html.