Kindle or book

I have I'm afraid
But I can access Kindle on my mini iPad so all's not lost! I'm taking it on holiday with me so might get round to reading one of the dozens of downloaded books

I still use both- like Sheena I find it so easy to download a new book in seconds. I am reading a hardback at present, bought in a charity shop. There are two problems with it, it is heavy to hold and also the print is I think font 10 or 12. I am spoiled using my Kindle because I have the print at the correct size for my failing eyesight.

Love my Kindle and do most of my reading on it, plus browsing and buying new books for it.However, I also still buy paperbacks, particularly if I want to lend it to DD's or friends.I can't hold heavy books anymore, so I can buy them as it were for the Kindle.

Oh I do agree loopylou, a kindle for the hols is great, as you can take lots to read in one little package so to speak !

I found that I was almost downloading anything ...I'd look down all the cheap books, and to be honest didn't really enjoy many of them. Now, if I'm buying it in paperback I'm more choosy

I know we are supposed to be saving the planet and not buying books because of the paper etc. but to me, now, the kindle seems soulless..goodness I'm sounding very deep now

sheena I agree, deep! And I agree too, there's just something missing when I read a book on a Kindle. Although I also flip between the two. Some books you just want to hold in your hands properly.

Initially I thought having a kindle was brilliant but eventually I really missed browsing in a book shop and recently bought three books and enjoying reading a proper book again.

I can access kindle on my iPad which is especially handy for reading in bed when DH has fallen asleep and lamps are off, I then have background light and larger font.

Best of both worlds

I enjoy browsing the whole of the kindle repertoire - I just love the feeling that there is a whole world of books out there at my finger tips - brilliant! I truly love my kindle and I have had it for years.

I daren't read my Kindle in the bath!

As Charleygirl has said, the Kindle's greatest advantage for me is that the size of font can be changed to be right for each individual. I love my Kindle though I do have a pile of books by the bed, waiting to be read. There's another on its way from Amazon at the moment - not (quite) all books are available on Kindle.

I love my kindle and especially now I can access it on my ipad too. I do read books as well as a friend passes me on books that she's bought and read so also the best of both Worlds..

sheena, don't worry about the paper used for books. Paper comes from trees grown in sustainable forests, usually in Northern Europe, not from the rainforests which are being depleted for quite different purposes.

Just as an aside, paper is easier to re-cycle than Kindles. The plastics, chemicals, metals etc are probably far worse for the planet than paper (at least that's why I'm telling Mrs. P she can't have one )

Spoil sport pompa !
Buy the long-suffering MrsP a mini iPad then she can keep tabs on you here!

I use an iPad mini with the Kindle app and the Audible app, both Amazon, hundreds and hundreds of books and not a single tree used.
The Kindle and Kindle apps work very well but the Audible app is a nightmare. It's just spat over 100 audio books out and after I has downloaded them again spat them out for the second time.

I thought I would miss handling books but since I was given my Kindle I am totally converted. I only tend to read free books and have reread a lot of the old classics, seeing them from a totally different point of view. I've just finished 'To Kill a Mockingbird' last read in my teens.
I love the fact that the print can be enlarged for my failing eyes and the last page I was reading pops up immediately. I have read loads more as it is so easy to pop into my bag and time spent in Hospital and Doctors' waiting rooms is not longer wasted. I was quite annoyed at my last blood test that I was seen very quickly!

I love my Kindle! I remember remarking, last time this subject came up here, on how many of my friends had eventually converted, after the whole "I'd rather have a real book" thing. But, really, both books and Kindles have their place, so it doesn't matter, does it?

I love my Kindle, which I've had for several years now. I still own too many 'real' books, which were threatening to take over the whole house at one point. I do still buy the occasional book, but operate on a 'one in, one out' principle. I am planning to downsize in a year or so and it's good to think that thanks to the Kindle, I can still have my library even in a small flat.

Love my Kindle. I do miss the feel and smell of a "real" book, but in the end it is what I read that matters, not the format. I was recently given a hardback book which I am looking forward to reading as it is a new and highly acclaimed one. But I am NOT looking forward to carrying it with me in trains, park etc.!

I usually buy a Sunday newspaper on the Kindle, it is cheaper and I don't have to walk to the shop! But pictures and some parts are missing, and it is by far inferior to a real paper.

I have a kindle ...but still love to buy books as well, i can hand on a good book to my daughter and she then passes them round her friends the kindle is good but books still hold the magic feel , some are so good i get them back and reread them not quite the same with the kindle .

sheena I so understand and am exactly the same. I have a kindle which is so good but I miss books - the smell, the feel and the look. Now I have the problem of knowing that kindle books are generally cheaper unless you can find them in a charity shop, so always feel guilty about buying a book as apposed to a kindle book.

There is room for both. I love my Kindle, but still borrow books from the library regularly.

I love the Kindle for 'story' books - novels or biographies, and don't think I'll go back to print books. I know what other posters mean, though - I do miss browsing in bookshops and coming home with a bag of books to read, all shiny and new, clean and soooo tactile. Oh and that smell! And I agree that I was probably much more selective in the old days, choosing my books carefully and rarely buying something I ultimately discarded. With the Kindle, however, I buy at the drop of a hat and have bought some real rubbish, which then gets abandoned 2 or 3 chapters in. But I have also found some absolute gems, that I possibly wouldn't have found in a bookshop, chiefly because of the 'Kindle Daily Deal' which brings quite a variety of books to one's attention. And given that these selections are cheaper than the average magazine, I don't mind risking them.
Reference books, however, must be in print form!

Kindle all the way for me - I do have a paper novel on the go as well (re-reading a Pratchett) but it's nowhere near as convenient as the tablet. I now have two Kindles - a while ago I thought I had broken my first one, as it wouldn't communicate, so I hurriedly bought a Paperwhite version. Then idly fiddling with the original one I got it going again! So I'm feetle "two Kindles" baum...

The convenience of having a library in my pocket is wonderful.