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What's best a kindle or a old fashioned book?
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I like both. I keep books at home, but I use a reader when I'm traveling or if I wan't to read magazines. It's easier to read manga on the reader mainly because I can just download it from the internet and read it rather than running around looking for a certain comic or something in english. But I still buy books and stuff for home, they just aren't as easy to take around, especially if you're like me and want to keep your books in good condition or read a lot of comics. I don't think that digital readers should take the place from books though. Just for sentimental reasons though.
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I'm actually looking to buy a Kindle, right now; though I do love my physical books. In fact, I'm the kind of person that prefers to have a physical and electronic version of the same book.
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I'm trying to use more ebooks, my room is a little cluttered with books but I keep buying them: I've already got two bookshelves full, along with a hidden bookshelf in my closet, and a few piles on the floor. I use the library a lot too, which helps.
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the bf has a Kindle, not the latest hardware, not a beta, but it has reset issues. Sometimes it goes to to lunch and dosnt want to come back easy. He is an avid reader and loves it tho. the process of buying a book and reading it is seamless. You can also get a Kindle reader application for the iPhone iPad and other devices but you have to sync up the text between devices.
look at a software application Calibre runs on a mac maybe a windows version.
this application converts between different book formats, PDF being one format and MOBI (the Kindle format) being the other. Calibre can convert the file and email it into the Kindle. mobi book files are not very large so they transfer fast.
Apple, Amazon and others have price fixing issues in the courts. The cost of a MOBI formatted book is about the same as a paper back book.
I hope this helps, if you like to read this is the way you could go
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