Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers?

An anonymous reader writes "The Kindle made waves when it came out, but they've now had the chance to calm. How many of you have been using your eBook readers since you've received them? How many of you forgot you had one, and how many of you swear by your reader? I like my single-purpose (well, dual — music player) Sony Reader because I actually use it to read, rather than multitasking myself to death. Is this technology as convenient and useful as you expected?" If not, what refinements or improvements would reKindle your interest?

No

[jon_cooper]

No

Yes!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever since I discovered alt.ascii-art.erotica, I've been using my eBook reader at every possible occasion.

Re:Simple answer: No I have not

[Anonymous Coward]

Just like CDs, I guess. After all, I'm sure no slashdotter has an MP3 collection that is much larger than their CD collection...

Shouldn't this be a poll maybe?

[Seraphim_72]

()Yes
()No
()Hell No!
()The 70's called they want their 8-tracks AND the Kindle back.
()Dead Tree or Dead Me!
()Didn't I see one of these in Star Wars?
()Cowboy Neal Kindles his Spindle

There's this fairly old device I have..

[ihaveamo]

The font has no pixelation at all. Awesome sort of "Dogearing" technology, and an external "bookmark" device I can insert into it. No power requrements.A nice wood finish. Bendable without breaking. Droppable without breaking. Cheap to buy. Anyone have better?

Re:Simple answer: No I have not

[nomadic]

I just went to the used bookstore, enjoying the smells, the sight, and the interaction with a person who was able to tell me based on a loose idea of what I told him I liked several books I should read.

Last used bookstore I went to the guy behind the counter hit on my girlfriend. Amazon has never done that.

And I'm your Bi-Polar Opposite

[digitalgiblet]

Somes days I just LOVE my spiffy Kindle! It makes puppies smile and rainbows sing!

Other days I just don't see the point. I mean why even bother reading ANYTHING? We're all just going to die eventually anyway.

Re:You're Missing the Point...

[Anonymous Coward]

I was going to bump you up to a +5 then I noticed your username. Never going to mod up anyone who has fanboy in his username. Them's the rulse. If'n it'were up to me. You'd be banned. Or rather it would be impossible to register with such a username. The attempt would install awesomeware on your computer that would forever prevent you from putting those letters together in that combination. It might also have required you to re write the linux kernel in x86 assembler as further punishment.

as to the fact that your comment was actually intelligent and showed a higher degree of analysis than the parent, Well as they say, even broken clocks are right twice a day.

Re:Hi, I'm your polar oposite.

[swillden]

My screens just do not have that kind of real-estate space.

So get more screens!

Re:Simple answer: No I have not

[duppyconqueror]

I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany...

Re:Simple answer: No I have not

[Zibblsnrt]

I'm sure that's an upcoming feature there.

Re:That's not a safe bet at all.

[RealityThreek]

Heh. Just think, the equivalent to a library burning in the digital world is 'rm -rf *'.

Re:CD and book collections.

[twatt3r]

You probably still use closed-source, proprietary bread you buy from a store.

I insist on open-source, GPL bread, with recipes freely available. You can't know your food is safe unless you can debug the source yourself.

Compile times for sourdough are a bitch, tho.

Leather-bound books, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

So you prefer the killed-a-tree-AND-a-cow book - I am seeing an interesting pattern develop.

Any of you have even-higher-death books they like even more?

Re:Simple answer: No I have not

[Txiasaeia]

Welcome, nomadic. We have recommendations [adultfriendfinder.com] for you.

Equivalent to what???

[AliasMarlowe]

the ability to copy reliably is equivalent to imortality.

Copyright violation as a basis for religion?
Well, it's as good as any other, I suppose, and would vilify the usual demons - RIAA, MPAA, publishers, etc.

Re:Hi, I'm your polar oposite.

[LuYu]

Yeah, but if your books start to degrade, can you copy them with a single command?

Re:That's not a safe bet at all.

[The_reformant]

public libraries are often torched

Wow, you live in a bad neighbourhood.

Re:How about no?

[Saint Fnordius]

Pulp fiction!

Re:How about no?

[CastrTroy]

Realizing that nobody cares if their copy of "The Davinci Code" lasts for 500 years.