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I guess I must be about average because I could only count 7 that I read from cover to cover. I have read parts or started to read at least another half dozen or so from the list, but they were too boring to finish. Someone should come up with an essential Mormon Book list. I bet I would do much better on that.

Sorry but I don't have anyone that I can recommend. I love Create Space, but hate to format with them. I have published a few books on Create Space but my expertise is with the Kindle. I have worked on more than 2,000 titles.

I help people sell their books for the Kindle. I can help you with formatting, a cover and or any other part of the process. You can set your book up for free on Amazon but the minimum price you can offer it is $0.99. Let me know if you have any questions?

I agree. Also, the OP asked specifically about the Kindle. Obviously, the OP has done their ereader research and know what they are looking for. I will also try to clarify some of the differences between the other devices mentioned in this thread. The iPad is a wonderful device that allows you to check your email, surf the internet, read books etc. It does a lot of things well including reading scriptures. It has average battery life for a tablet, but extremely short for an ereader. It is a lot like a great big version of an iPod, of which I am a major fan. The Kindle is for book readers. Period. If you want a device to watch youtube video's and read books don't buy a Kindle. If you want the best device for reading books, buy a Kindle. The battery lasts a month, the screen uses e-ink which makes your reading experience similar to reading a book, and Kindle boasts a much larger library than any other ereader. Most important reason that I own one, NO EYE STRAIN. I make a living online and I stare at a computer screen all day long. The last thing that I want to do at the end of the day is try and read a book off of a computer screen. Netbooks are blessing. They weigh next to nothing, and unlike cell phones, PDA's and other smaller devices, they use real software. Netbooks are wonderful if you travel a lot, need access to the internet frequently, and need the functions of a computer. As far as answering the OP question. I don't like taking my Kindle to church to look up scriptures. It is easier and faster to look up the scriptures in their physical form. I actually read my scriptures on the Kindle when I am getting my oil changed and other similar situations and love it. However, I am not the biggest fan of using it for scripture reading at church. I do take it quite often and use it for the gospel doctrine manual that I forgot to bring, fast sundays where the lesson is the First Presidency message, and foruth Sunday conference talk lessons. As far as the iPad at church, I have noticed that everyone that I know that brings one looks at Facebook, their email, and surfs the web, and plays games. Maybe if you didn't have the internet with your iPad then you wouldn't be tempted. From what I have seen they are not only a distraction to the user, their spouse, and children, usually everyone else within view of it pays more attention to the iPad than the speaker. I have yet to see anyone use their netbook in my ward during sacrament, but I would think that it would be more of a distraction than any other device. I can't imagine the look on the older generations face if I was to pull one out and start typing during sacrament.

The Great and the Terrible Series has a terrible ending. The author covers more time in the last couple of pages than he did in the entire series. It did not flow well. I had the feeling that the author originally intended the series to be much longer but gave up after the sixth book. The ending seemed more like an afterthought.

I love Parley P Pratt's Autobiography. I own the hardback, CD's and the Kindle version. I am leery of the enhanced version. What did she enhance?

Was that directed to me?

There is actually going to be one more Nibley Book. It is called "One Eternal Round". Apparently it is supposed to be the culmination of his life's work. I email Farm's once or twice a year. The response is always "next year".

I don't usually read a whole lot of fiction but I read one a couple years ago that I liked. It was by a BYU professor and it was called Lifted Up. It is a short read with a powerful ending, but it was really good. I have recommended it several times and have had no complaints yet.

I loved Jesus the Christ but it took several times to actually get into it. I didn't actually get into it until after 100 pages or so. I second the Messiah series by Bruce R McConkie. They are easier to read and very deep. I like Bruce R McConkie's Doctrinal Commentary on the New Testament. I felt like I learned more about the New Testament reading that series than any other.

I am not going to argue. Obviously your opinion differs from mine. However there is one thing that I think everyone has to agree on about Nibley. He had the intellect to go into any field that he wanted. After finishing graduate school his work was being published on a regular basis. However within a short time he took a job at BYU working for peanuts at the request of an Apostle. He continued in the capacity until he retired shortly before his death. Unlike many members who become scholars his testimony cannot be questioned.

Nothing against Jackson but I would like to point out 2 things. First I have not followed him that much but it I am sure he has not done as much research as Nibley. All of his contemporaries that knew him talk of the massive amount of books that he read in his lifetime. Most of these were not in English but were from cultures all over the ancient world. That is why we like to read what he wrote. He was fluent in at least 16 languages, and some were root languages which meant that he could understand several. Nibley read more in one of those 16 languages than most of us will ever read in the English language in our entire lifetime. On top of this Nibley had the intellect to understand more of what he read than very few others. Also the amount of scholarly work Nibley has had published is far greater than Jackson. Obviously this leaves him open to more criticism than Jackson. That is why Farms was created in the first place. To publish Nibley's work. My second point is this. I have never heard of the First Presidency requesting Jackson to prepare a talk on any subject, and then deliver it to the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on the fourth floor of the SLC Temple. When this happens let me know and I will reconsider his criticism of Nibley. Until then I will continue to believe that Gordon B Hinckley was and is a true prophet of God and was not duped in one of the holiest places on Earth.

OK I went and reinstalled it on my computer. The same thing happened. I installed it and opened the program and there are no good books in there. All it is a bunch of free books that you can download from the internet. About 90% of the LDS books are missing.

I would have to reinstall it on my computer to see what books are missing. I was researching a certain topic and the books that I no that are supposed to be on there are missing. The only one that I remember for sure was the Journal of Discourses. Gospel link now is available online only. Now they charge you a monthly fee to use it. When I purchased my version it was a one time fee. They only explanation that I can see for doing this would be to try to get people to pay the monthly fee and access it online. I'm still curious to know if anyone else has had similar issues.

I agree fully. I've never been a fan of Deseret Book. I used to love Seagull books before they took them over. Although I rarely shop there these days I have a bigger gripe. I own the gospel link program. My computer crashed a couple of months ago, after I bought a new one I loaded gospel link. Upon startup gospel link wanted to be connected to the web. I gave it the ok and it downloaded a file on my computer. I then opened gospel link and all of the good books were missing. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it three times but no matter what I did all of the good books are gone. I finally had a suspicion that Deseret book had done something when they loaded a file onto my comp. I then got my old, old computer out and set it up making sure that it wasn't connected to the internet. It loaded just fine and all of the books are there. So now every time that I want to use gospel link I have to boot up the antique. Has anyone else had a similar problem? I've asked around and no one listens to me. They just defend the church.