Kindle Or Other Thing

[Barmaid]

My holiday present to myself is an ebook reader.

Can I ask A-bers for their personal recommendations, please?

Kindle or other thing? Pros and cons?

I'm likely just to be reading novels, but it will need to be able to store a good dozen or so since I can easily read a book in a day. I want it to be easy to download too and not cost a fortune.

I just don't know what is out there.....

TIA

[Baby_Sham]

It's bad, isn't it. I would rather go without for a week and wait for delivery than pay such an extortionate price!

[hc4361]

They've been in to that for years, dot. Look at eBay for what's on offer.

[DJHawkes]

I don't mean the amazon to e pub converstion app, that's illegal too but i mean the copying of the open platform e books.

can i stop now, lol I've been doing this for 5 days and need to switch off lol

[Barmaid]

I've just found an ebook for about 2x the price of a paperback!! Idiotic!

[Baby_Sham]

The cookery book I wanted was £35!!

[douglas9401]

No Barmaid, just testing the market. Actually buying it would be idiotic. :)

[hc4361]

I'm talking about all books, dot. Whole series of popular authors such as James Patterson, Lee Childs, Maeve Binchy, Bernard Cornwell, Patricia Cornwell.......
if you can't see what you want, ask and you shall receive

[DJHawkes]

I've just downloaded 2 Richard Castle books to my Kobo Arc and they were 53p each, they would have been 7.99 at work (though I get 30% discount) but we don;t stock them and so i would have had to order them in anyway.

[Baby_Sham]

Where do you get these free books from the 'public library', Hc?

[Barmaid]

Well I just looked on our public library and they have 1200 books to download. All I need to do is renew my membership.

I'm looking at freebies at the moment..........(free books is always good in my view). I've got googleplay on my phone, but my battery last about 10 minutes so that's no good.

[hc4361]

Baby Sham, from my own council's public library - the one you walk in to and borrow books. The loan ebooks too.

You can register with any neighbouring council online. If you want to register with a library that is too far away you usually have to do it in person.

I am registered with 5 councils public libraries - three books each at a time, maximum of 21 days, minimum 1 day, no early returns (no fines for late returns!)

[Baby_Sham]

Well I never!

I'm a member of my local library, but never for a moment thought you could get e-books from them.
Cheers for the heads up! :-)

[hc4361]

Let me know if your library does ebooks, Baby Sham - I'll join if I'm not already a member :)

[Baby_Sham]

Will do :)

I'm having trouble finding that out. Would it come under my towns library, or county?

[hc4361]

What town are you in?

[Baby_Sham]

Weston-super-Mare.

Sorry if that was a dumb question. I'm on the North Somerset Council website, and on the 'libraries' section, but can't seem to find anything about e-books??

[hc4361]

You need to register and log in

https://librarieswest.libraryebooks.co.uk/site/EB/ebooks/

[hc4361]

Better link:
https://librarieswest.libraryebooks.co.uk/site/EB/ebooks/faq_out.asp

[craft1948]

York library does ebooks...............I just like my kindle.

[Baby_Sham]

Ah, what a star!

Thank you! :-)