Kindles

I love my Kindle, which is just the basic model and fine for reading in bed as well, with the bedside light on. I think it is very good for fiction, but not good for non-fiction because of tables, pictures etc. We have 8000 plus books and really don't want too many more. Living abroad, it gives me access to books that I would have got from the library or charity shops. I do spend quite a bit though; I have got addicted to Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler detective stories and whoops I have downloaded all except the last one which I will buy when we go on holiday in a couple of weeks.

I am on my third Kindle. First one got damaged in my handbag and the second just stopped working. These two were original type with a keyboard. I then got a Kindle Fire which is more robust. Only problem is you cannot read in the sunlight. I never leave the house without my kindle.

I love my kindle but it is a few years old now and I am dying to change it for the one with a light at the back, Paper white, but I feel that I can't do that until the one I have conks out,it feels like it will last for ever! I do love it, but would like to read at night without turning the light on and waking DH.Enjoy yours janthea.

I have a strange relationship with my Kindle. I use it on holiday (let's face it, it means I can squeeze a few more unnecessary items into my suitcase!), but the rest of the time, I ignore it. Or rather, I don't actually read it. I just keep buying books for it. I spend ages browsing the kindle store, and if I see an interesting review, I nip into Amazon and buy the book, but almost all of my actual reading is from the library, the charity shop or my local bookshop! Weird, I know!

My DD has talked about buying me a Kindle for a while now, how exactly do they work, I use WiFi from my daughters house, I'm in the granny flat, do you need to be be connected to a network to use them, sorry if I seem a bit thick, I'm not normally but i just cannot seem to understand them. thanks in advance, from a very sunny Brussels

Well I started on e readers with Sony many years ago and had three of them. I then moved onto Kindle having an ordinary one and then a keyboard one with 3G.
Next I had. Nexus so I could get all my books from all publishers in one place. The kindle locks you into Amazon unless you are very clever technically. After that I bought an Apple mini so I can have all my kindle books, my Sony books, on Bluefire App, my kobo books plus Ebooks . Of course it also does everything else.
So for me folks its the Apple mini for its range of Apps all books in one place, backed up to Dropbox as well as the publisher.

Does anyone know if I can run two kindles on the same account? I use mine a lot on holiday and have the daily paper delivered on when we are abroad (sad news junkie, I know). So when DH says can I look at the paper I am left bookless for an hour! Thought if I treated myself to a new paperwhite for my books, maybe I could keep the old keyboard model just for the daily paper.

feliceyou only need access to wi-fi when you're downloading new books. Once the books are downloaded they can be accessed and read without any connection at all. You will have a whole library at your fingertips.

My basic Kindle has the leather cover with inbuilt light which is kind to tired eyes. Backlit tablets are not so good for the eyes and are difficult to read in sunlight. I shall be taking my Kindle on holiday and have loaded dozens of new books in preparation, but I shall also take my iPad mini so that I can Skype and email the family - and maybe take a peek at GN now and again.

Yes, MrsJamJam you can run more than one Kindle on the same account, and download the same things to both, or different things to each, as you wish. Mr E and I used to have a Kindle each, but they were both on the same account, so we could both read the same books if we wanted, though most of his were sci-fi (and most of mine were not!)

thanks for the information elegran. I can feel a bit of pre holiday spending coming on. Amazon one click is a dangerous habit!

I love the ability to enlarge the text on my Kindle as my eyes get tired at night, it also reads to me, although in an expressionless voice, I am not sure if this is possible on a newer one.

My library does e books but they can't be downloaded onto a kindle, does anyone have experience of reading books on the small ipad? I might opt for that and a Kindle app when my kindle eventually fails.

My DD and I have our kindles registered on each other's accounts, so that we can pinch books from one another - the modern way of swapping, I suppose! Think she does best out of the deal.