Speaking of ebooks. . .

[Guest]

We're getting an Android tablet for a family Christmas gift, largely so that we can check electronic books out from a local library. I wanted to mention, though, that Deseret Book has ebooks, including many literary classics and GA's books for free! I'm excited to get the tablet. Oh and we're finally entering this decade and upgrading to a smartphone, thanks to a great Black Friday sale, so I can have books with me all the time! Not that I'll be able to read them with the twins to corral.

[slamjet]

I have a daughter who, is a major bookworm, who has threatened me with disownment and death if I got her one of those for her.

[Guest]

I have a daughter who, is a major bookworm, who has threatened me with disownment and death if I got her one of those for her.

Because she's a paper book purist, or because she'd disappear into it, never to be seen again?

[slamjet]

Purist. She has a computer in her room and she's more into reading than playing. Go figure.

[Maureen]

I have a daughter who, is a major bookworm, who has threatened me with disownment and death if I got her one of those for her.

I can relate. I got an ebook for my birthday, a Kobo Arc; and it's a case of getting used to. I find the backdrop a little too bright and it takes a lot of tweeking to get it just right. I'm sure the more I use it the easier it will get. Regular books are easy, you just read and turn the page.

M.

[Guest]

I was against the idea for awhile, because I do love having a book in my hand. I think that started to change when I began to see how much cheaper (and often free) ebooks are, and then that we can check them out from the library without dragging 5 kids in, or taking them back (they just expire and don't work after a time). My inner tightwad always wins.

[skippy740]

Plenty of free ebooks from Amazon's Kindle app too.

[Anddenex]

My sister never thought she would give up reading paper back books, or hard covers, over an ebook reader.

That was until I gave her my Nook, now she loves the Nook.

[Vort]

I have a daughter who, is a major bookworm, who has threatened me with disownment and death if I got her one of those for her.

A few years ago, Sister Vort (another bookworm) intuited that I was planning to buy her a Kindle. She told me flat out, "I do not want a Kindle. Don't get me one." So I didn't. Then, a year or two ago, she said, "Um, hey, well, you know about how I don't want a Kindle? I've changed my mind. I want one." So I got her one, and she has LOVED it.

[beefche]

I love the smell of the library.

[Dravin]

I have a daughter who, is a major bookworm, who has threatened me with disownment and death if I got her one of those for her.

Bibliophiles of the world unite!

[Brother_Anon]

I never thought I'd ever switch from physical books to e-books, but after getting a couple of hard to find books in electronic version and actually doing it, I'm now firmly a member of the Kindle Tribe. Between my iPhone and my iPad, I always have my books at hand, I don't have to lug around the current book I'm reading, and if I find myself with a few minutes of spare time outside of the house, with a few "clicks" I'm able to pick up reading right where I left off.

And the best part is I'm now reading more than I have in years.

There are a couple of authors I'll still buy hard covers for, but that's really only because I'm a little OCD when it comes to my collections, but paperbacks are a thing of the past as far as I'm concerned. They take up way too much space.

[Vort]

Bibliophiles of the world unite!

Dyslexic shoes and aprons of the world untie!

[dahlia]

I was against the idea for awhile, because I do love having a book in my hand. I think that started to change when I began to see how much cheaper (and often free) ebooks are, and then that we can check them out from the library without dragging 5 kids in, or taking them back (they just expire and don't work after a time). My inner tightwad always wins.

My iPad has a Kindle. You'd be amazed at how cheap some Kindle books are (some are free, but they aren't usually what I want.) $2-3 for some. I wasn't sure that I would like ebooks, but when you want something and you can get it with the press of a button, it's wonderful. Even cookbooks - just prop up the iPad in the kitchen and cook away. I really like it.

I got my mother a Kindle a couple of years ago. Her library had a bed bug infestation and she was too freaked to go back. She loves being able to carry her little Kindle to the doctor's office or wherever. It's so much lighter than a book and you can adjust the font.

[skippy740]

I love the LDS scripture and tools apps.

Instead of carrying a bookshelf of books to Sunday School, I only carry my android phone.

And the LDS Tools app allows you to access your entire Stake Directory (using your lds.org login).

[Windseeker]

I just finished a book then got the second in the series on my Nook Tablet. I like the feel of a book but love reading at night without having to turn the lights on. I actually find the Nook easier on my eyes to read then the pages of an actual book.

[Guest]

I love the LDS scripture and tools apps.

Instead of carrying a bookshelf of books to Sunday School, I only carry my android phone.

And the LDS Tools app allows you to access your entire Stake Directory (using your lds.org login).

This was one of our big motivations for deciding on the tablet and smartphone. We're really bad at remembering our manuals, and often even our scriptures. It just requires too much lugging of stuff to get 5 young kids to church!

[Backroads]

I'm generally a concrete book fan, but I did suggest the basic Kindle to my husband for my Christmas present.

[pam]

I'm generally a concrete book fan, but I did suggest the basic Kindle to my husband for my Christmas present.

Seems like concrete books would be far too heavy to lift to read.

[slamjet]

Seems like concrete books would be far too heavy to lift to read.

Bada-BOOM! She's here all week folks... Don't forget to tip your waiter

[tubaloth]

We're getting an Android tablet for a family Christmas gift, largely so that we can check electronic books out from a local library. I wanted to mention, though, that Deseret Book has ebooks, including many literary classics and GA's books for free! I'm excited to get the tablet. Oh and we're finally entering this decade and upgrading to a smartphone, thanks to a great Black Friday sale, so I can have books with me all the time! Not that I'll be able to read them with the twins to corral.

I got my Android Tablet over a year and a half ago. I mostly got it for some games on the go, e-mail, and web surfing. The whole scriptures and Books was a pleasant surprise.

1. I hope you got a good Tablet. The problem with Android being open, anybody can put it on there tablet. A Cheap tablet is a cheap tablet.

2. Get use to the Desert Book loving ipad and taking for ever with Android (Disney seems to be the same). At least that is how it was. I downloaded the Deseret Book App. At the time it was just a port of some cell phone app and I could tell. What was worst is that the app had its own brightness setting. My tablet uses an Auto brightness depending on how bright the room is. I would be reading an e-mail and open up the Deseret book app and get blinded every time.

I do hope its better, but then again Deseret Books have always been overpriced. I wish (and hope) that seagull book can get into the game. (before it passes them by)

3. I didn't like the Nook App either. Maybe it was just because I got use to the Kindle app. Maybe they have updated the Nook App. As you start to download all these app you start hope for just one ebook format that everybody would use. But that won't happen anytime soon.

4. Don't overlook google books. I think you can get books from the Google store in there. But Google is big on scanning all the books. A lot of these old books are free.

For example I have James E Talmage The House of The Lord book. These old books are scanned images. So the Text is usually pretty small and might not be perfect.

I have found old General Conference issues. History of Joseph Smith. I think I have some Brigham Young book that I haven't read.

5. I don't know if the Nook does this (it probably does) but one cool think you can do with the Kindle (Amazon) app is send documents to it. you get an e-mail address [email protected] (You do have to make sure you set up devices in your Amazon account)

You can always put documents on your tablet to read. Once something gets so big its just nicer to put it in the Kindle app and read it as any book.

I wish there was an easier way. But I use the old Gospel Link 2001 (installed on my XP Mode) I copy some of these books over to a document then just e-mail the document to my Kindle. I wish there was an easier way to get the text out of Gospel Link, but for now it works.

[Bini]

I braved Black Friday ALONE. I started that Thanksgiving night at 8PM and into Friday the next day until 3:30PM. I was exhausted! But totally worth it, I saved hundreds of dollars on big ticket items, and pretty much wrapped up (literally) ALL my Christmas shopping

We already have an iPad mini and Samsung Galaxy tab in the household but I think those Nooks look fun, and would be great for kids.