#16

I got my paperwhite with backlight for a lot less than that. You just missd Prime day, you prune!

#17

I haven’t used one but apparently the backlight is very gentle and natural and nothing like the glow of a computer / tablet screen.

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#18

Yup, got an old school non-touch, non-backlight Kindle. Does the job fine; I can see why people like having a backlight, but I don’t regret not spending the extra for one at all.

Tend to buy around 2 or 3 kindle books for every paper one I get these days and probably read them in that ratio as well.

#19

I know, but Amazon were very inconsiderate in not planning Prime Day around when I was going to get some bunce for my birthday.

#20

Hmm. That may be for me. But I don’t want to use Amazon all of the time!

#21

Fucking Bezos prick! I think they have deals on it every so often. Argos too and maybe JL.

#23

If you mean the books, you can convert nearly everything to the right format on a computer. Piece of piss.

#24

My other half has had a basic kindle and a paperwhite, and she adores the paperwhite and says it’s worth every penny

(even though it was me that bought both of them for her)

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#25

I’ve had a Kindle Fire for 5 years now. Works really well and you get them for under £50 I think (!?)

#26

Do you like it? I have a Kindle Fire tablet, always thought it was pretty duff. Slow, Amazon’s own browser and stuff are useless, the battery life was terrible. Always ended up just using my phone instead.

#27

I’ve only ever used it for reading books. It does that well and the battery life is reasonable. No idea about the other features!

#28

I spend so much time looking at a computer or phone, don’t think I could a book on a tablet screen.

#29

Kindle’s been a godsend for me. Reading paperbacks one handed gets to be a real pain (literally sometimes) especially if they’re big thick ones (ooer) and as I’ve been reading the Malazan series they are pretty big (just started vol.8 which is 1300 pages)

I got a paperwhite recently to replace my old one that had the keyboard (was still working fine, just fancied buying a new gadget!) and I really like the backlight.

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#30

Just got a bog standard kindle (the newer small variety, but no backlight. wish I’d gone for a backlight- sometimes I end up reading on my 2 year old’s kindle fire, poor wee soul, it’s always running low on battery because of me).

#31

Just pulled the trigger and bought the Paperwhite! Currently £89.99 on the Evil Amazon, thought I might as well. I look forward to appearing in the cheap e-books thread.

#32

Mentioned a few times, but always worth another:

https://standardebooks.org/

Out-of-copyright novels that have been properly edited and formatted to be nice on ereaders. Love them.

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#33

There’s plenty in the kindle store on Amazon which is dirt cheap too - look, here’s War of the Worlds by HG Wells for free: https://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Worlds-AmazonClassics-H-Wells-ebook/dp/B0752ZLG34/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1535016520&sr=1-1&keywords=hg+wells

#34

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-beam-piper/space-viking

this sounds good

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#35

This looks awesome, cheers. When I get my Kindle (tomorrow), is it easy to download these - you’re not just trapped in the Amazon store?

#36

I’m a Kobo wanker and it’s easy enough for me - I use the built-in web browser, go to the site, find a book, and download. I think it’s fairly easy to to something similar on Kindles, otherwise there’s some way to download to your computer and send it across.

True, but any that I’ve downloaded from elsewhere - Project Gutenberg etc - tend to be really badly produced ebooks where the text is off, there’s spacing issues, it doesn’t flow properly etc etc. Standard Ebooks take the original text and do a lot of formatting so that it’s actually nice to read.