Kindle drawbacks?

"I write the Superbyw@ys column in The Oldie"

Advertising!

ELEGRAN !!!!!!!

But this is the Oldie section isn't it? Isn't the whole section advertising? If I've got it wrong I apologise.

One drawback is the ease with which you can buy up everything on Amazon. At least if you are tempted in a bookshop you have to carry a heavy bag back home.

Jings don't panic. This is legalised advertising (and no-one wants you to buy anything)

No drawbacks. I usually take twelve books on a seven day holiday - and have to dress like a slob because there's no room for clothes. Not any more! I love my Kindle.

I know Elegran! just thought we could give 'em a hard time to start with

Webster - you've got a point there!

So all this is just to advertise The Oldie mag?!

And your blog.

They do Elegran. They want us to buy the Oldie.

I will definitely buy the Oldie.
When I'm old.
I don't think that will be any time soon.

One problem that I have sometimes with a Kindle is that if I forget just who a certain character is, it is not very easy to skip back through to find a previous reference to him/her. Yes, I know that I can use the search facility but a book can be easier to flick back a few pages.
Generally I'm delighted with my Kindle, just wish some of the books were more reasonably priced

I have not read The Oldie so maybe should not be critical, but I feel think the name would put me off.

Anyway back to Kindles, I love mine and would not part with it, but I find its too easy to spend just with one click dangerous!!!!!

I buy The Oldie so presumably I am well over the hill. To be honest, A friend saw the cover and exclaimed "How patronising!" but I have found it the least patronising of magazines. The contributors are mostly older than I am, so they don't dare be patronising. Katherine Whitehorn? Wilfrid De'Ath? Bernard Ingram?

Oh heck, try a free sample and judge for yourself - don't criticise what you have not read!

Side effects? Do Kindles have side effects?

The mind boggles....

Elegran I have never seen it ...where do you get your copy??

And yes GA agree about ..."buy it when I'm old"

I read the Oldie at the dentists....it is readable, but I'm not sure about this sudden appearance here....it was nice and cosy before

I had a sub to The Oldie once for a year (heavily discounted) and it was not at all bad - lots of articles, considerably less advertising than most magazines and if I am being honest, well written and entertaining. But, and I think this applies to Saga magazine too, while it might be OK once in a while, in the surgery waiting room oro at the dentist, it was too "samey" month after month. So when my cheap sub expired, I cancelled it.

I've had my Kindle for over a year and if there were any drawbacks I reckon I would have ferreted them out by now. I love it... a complete library that I can slip into my inside pocket - well my jacket pocket - I don't actually have any pockets.

Cost? It's surprising what you can pick up for flumpence - or even for nothing at all (Amazon still send you a receipt! Bless...)

Same here, we had it for a year and I found most of the content to "old" for me, a lot about the war and the 40s, before I was born. I did like some of the content, Virginia Ironside is always funny, but a lot of articles very short - ideal waiting-room material but not worth buying IMO.

Incidentally it's nice to see The Oldie back on the forum scene..

I just hope it won't all suddenly disappear in a hissy fit lke the old one did!

JaceyI subscribed online, one of those bargain subscriptions, then I have continued it for a couple of years. Ive never seen it in a newsagents.

Thank you Elegran