I am sober! Ask me anything!

[East Coast Hustle]

I love my original NOOK but the NOOK color has a decent enough browser that it can essentially be used as a tablet. Also graphic novels, which is the one thing that I love that my original NOOK is worthless for.

[Luna]

I love my original NOOK but the NOOK color has a decent enough browser that it can essentially be used as a tablet. Also graphic novels, which is the one thing that I love that my original NOOK is worthless for.

That, I AM tempted by.

What book formats does it take?

[East Coast Hustle]

Can't remember off the top of my head. Pretty sure it's proprietary, but you can download calibre for free and use it to convert any file format to the appropriate proprietary format so that it can be loaded onto your e-reader.

[Luna]

Can't remember off the top of my head. Pretty sure it's proprietary, but you can download calibre for free and use it to convert any file format to the appropriate proprietary format so that it can be loaded onto your e-reader.

I already use calibre to convert stuff to .mobi for the Kindle, so, no stress, there.

How's the battery life?  (I use mine CONSTANTLY, so stamina is important.)

[East Coast Hustle]

Don't know about the color version (have played with one but don't own one myself yet), and I imagine it wouldn't be as good as the e-ink ones, but my original NOOK has fucking amazing battery life. With wi-fi disabled it's good for 10-14 days depending on how voraciously I'm reading. With wi-fi constantly on it's still good for 3 or 4 days.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Books are meant to be made out of paper¹.  They are meant to smell like a book, and be good & weighty and inconvenient.  Otherwise, you get all spoiled and don't appreciate them.  Books don't even have to be read for me to enjoy them; they merely have to exist.



¹ When stone tablets aren't practical.

I agree with this. Reading is a very sensual experience for me. Books have presence.

That and I can't hold on to anything as slim as a NOOK or a Kindle for longer than a few seconds without my hands cramping and spasming.

[Luna]

Books are meant to be made out of paper¹.  They are meant to smell like a book, and be good & weighty and inconvenient.  Otherwise, you get all spoiled and don't appreciate them.  Books don't even have to be read for me to enjoy them; they merely have to exist.



¹ When stone tablets aren't practical.

I agree with this. Reading is a very sensual experience for me. Books have presence.

That and I can't hold on to anything as slim as a NOOK or a Kindle for longer than a few seconds without my hands cramping and spasming.

If what I'm reading can't make me forget what I'm holding, it's probably not worth reading.

Also, another beauty of a Kindle...  I don't HAVE to hold it.  I can set it down, work on something else with my hands, and keep reading.  I get reading done while I'm working on weaving.

[*GrumpButt*]

Books are meant to be made out of paper¹.  They are meant to smell like a book, and be good & weighty and inconvenient.  Otherwise, you get all spoiled and don't appreciate them.  Books don't even have to be read for me to enjoy them; they merely have to exist.



¹ When stone tablets aren't practical.

Holy shit I love that book smell...

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Books are meant to be made out of paper¹.  They are meant to smell like a book, and be good & weighty and inconvenient.  Otherwise, you get all spoiled and don't appreciate them.  Books don't even have to be read for me to enjoy them; they merely have to exist.



¹ When stone tablets aren't practical.

I agree with this. Reading is a very sensual experience for me. Books have presence.

That and I can't hold on to anything as slim as a NOOK or a Kindle for longer than a few seconds without my hands cramping and spasming.

If what I'm reading can't make me forget what I'm holding, it's probably not worth reading.

Also, another beauty of a Kindle...  I don't HAVE to hold it.  I can set it down, work on something else with my hands, and keep reading.  I get reading done while I'm working on weaving.

Tempting. Verra tempting.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Went out and about. YAY!

Book store, Applebee's with some booze and shitty food and a waiter who apparently hates women, random warehouse of strange stuff that happened to have some yarn, the Mall of Georgia, came home got bf, hit another book store, had dinner at Romano's Macaroni Grill and colored on the table.

Fun times were had by all, though bf did the hat-wearing-at-a-jaunty-angle thing, not me.

And I had a margarita . . . and some Jack. Makes up for last year when I didn't drink anything alcoholic at all.

[Luna]

Books are meant to be made out of paper¹.  They are meant to smell like a book, and be good & weighty and inconvenient.  Otherwise, you get all spoiled and don't appreciate them.  Books don't even have to be read for me to enjoy them; they merely have to exist.



¹ When stone tablets aren't practical.

I agree with this. Reading is a very sensual experience for me. Books have presence.

That and I can't hold on to anything as slim as a NOOK or a Kindle for longer than a few seconds without my hands cramping and spasming.

If what I'm reading can't make me forget what I'm holding, it's probably not worth reading.

Also, another beauty of a Kindle...  I don't HAVE to hold it.  I can set it down, work on something else with my hands, and keep reading.  I get reading done while I'm working on weaving.

Tempting. Verra tempting.

Add in the fact that I'm carrying a whole bloody library in my purse at any given moment...  Over 1000 titles loaded... and Amazon.com available through wireless just about anywhere...

And, bonus... I pre-order a new release.  The night before it comes out, I plug it in, turn on the wireless, go to bed... and it's there in the morning.

[Jasper]

I only really care about the book experience when it's a book I already know I care about.  I already own more books than I probably should at my age, seeing as I own no shelves. 

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I only really care about the book experience when it's a book I already know I care about.  I already own more books than I probably should at my age, seeing as I own no shelves. 

Eventually, if you get enough, the books become the shelves.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

May I ask what the advantage of a color e-reader is? I mean, if you aren't into art books.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I only really care about the book experience when it's a book I already know I care about.  I already own more books than I probably should at my age, seeing as I own no shelves. 

Yes this. I am a person who will read a book and then give it away. I have a FUCK TON of books, but they're all books that I either love so much I had to own them, or books I plan to read. I would be OK with having most of my reading list in electronic format.