Who has a Kindle...

[Roger Hicks]

...or other e-book reader? Who is planning on buying one? Who would buy one if there were more books on photography available? The more so as Kindle is apparently well suited to Glorious Living Black-and-White?

Cheers,

R.

 

[RF-Addict]

My wife has one - she loves it. We travel a lot and the Kindle has cut down on lugging books around the world🙂 She can just download whatever book she wants wherever we happen to be via their wireless link. It weighs close to nothing and really is very easy on the eyes, even in plain sunlight.
I read mostly non-fiction stuff, incl. a lot of photography related books and I prefer real books - I can write in them, add post-it notes, etc.

 

[whitecat]

But......if you want full color you should look at the Ipad and the Kindle app.

 

[youngcoby]

I have a clone of hanlin. Very happy with it.
Like to read old, royalty-free stuff, mainly Englisch classics, although it's been a while that I have used it. My main hobby is photography now, spending quite some time finding out all kind of new things.

The ereader comes in very handy to put all the manuals of my cameras on it, in case I have to figure out something about them as well

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

i have the kindle...this is the first version Kindle dx for students. it is kind of sucky for b&w as there are only 16 shades of grey. not too much shadow details, makes the book images look like its been pushed to 3200 iso .... LOL.

 

[sper]

I have the Kindle app on my iPad, which would be suitable for photography. The Kindle itself, which my girlfriend has, would be no good for pictures. They would have to be free for me to even try, and then I'd be pretty dissapointed.

I'm a huge kindle supporter for books, I love reading that way. But I'm also happy that photography can (I hope) remain primarily a printed book format. Photography and books go hand in hand, so I'm hoping it gets easier for new photographers to get printed, even when the sale of paperbacks decline.

 

[rover]

I have a Kindle, the most recent version. It is a much better media for reading than a paper book. Archival/Library wise, of course a book is far better. Once you read a book it is always there for reference, and as a big cookbook reader and user, there is no comparison. But for reading, the Kindle is so much easier to use. Not having to wear my bifocal glasses is reason enough.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I love my Kindle. It is excellent for reading a book that you would want to read straight through. It is useless for reference books, though. Or books you might want to move back and forth through.

 

[Mcary]

Has anyone tried creating a PDF of images in Lightroom or other programs and loading that into their Kindle?
If so how did the images look on the screen?
Thanks Mike

 

[Roger Hicks]

I love my Kindle. It is excellent for reading a book that you would want to read straight through. It is useless for reference books, though. Or books you might want to move back and forth through.

Why is that? Would it be addressed if the books were in PDF format? Or are Kindles just too slow?

I've never even seen a Kindle but I'm thinking of buying one. I understand that image quality on the current generation is vastly better than on earlier ones.

Thanks,

R.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

It's because there is no very practical way to go to a specific place in a Kindle book. You can change text size as you wish, so there are no fixed pages.

 

[hans voralberg]

Ah my friend that has been fixed with the latest 3.1 firmware. The Kindle now have matching page number with printed book. The update might not cover everything book atm but 3/4 of my books now have it.

The Kindle is very useful for quick reference, I have 4 photo books on it. But an Ipad with Kindle App is far more useful for photo books, though heavier.

 

[alistair.o]

Ah my friend that has been fixed with the latest 3.1 firmware. The Kindle now have matching page number with printed book. The update might not cover everything book atm but 3/4 of my books now have it.

The Kindle is very useful for quick reference, I have 4 photo books on it. But an Ipad with Kindle App is far more useful for photo books, though heavier.

I too am toying with the idea of buying a Kindle so, did you mean that you can now bookmark a specific page and place or is this still an issue as Picket Wilson mentioned?

Thanks

 

[Roger Hicks]

It's because there is no very practical way to go to a specific place in a Kindle book. You can change text size as you wish, so there are no fixed pages.

Thanks very much indeed -- and thanks also to everyone else who has replied so far. Do you think the 3.1 software (see above) would address this adequately?

I completely agree with those who like 'real' (printed) books, but (for example) a Kindle guide-book might be usable if it had pages or was searcheable.

Cheers,

R.

 

[dan_sutton]

Ah my friend that has been fixed with the latest 3.1 firmware. The Kindle now have matching page number with printed book. The update might not cover everything book atm but 3/4 of my books now have it.

The Kindle is very useful for quick reference, I have 4 photo books on it. But an Ipad with Kindle App is far more useful for photo books, though heavier.

Mind if I ask which photo books?

 

[rover]

I too am toying with the idea of buying a Kindle so, did you mean that you can now bookmark a specific page and place or is this still an issue as Picket Wilson mentioned?

Thanks

You can bookmark any point in a book with a Kindle as you read. You can also mark any specific passage and make notes related to it for yourself or to be shared. The issue PW is talking about is that you cannot easily read a page number in a table of contents and then go to that page, as you can in a book. I am not sure if how the recent update deals with this.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I'm not sure how you would deal with it. If the original page uses 10 pt type, and I increase my type size to 32 points, page numbers become meaningless. Like I say, it's great for novels and non-fiction books that you would mostly read straight through.

 

[alistair.o]

You can bookmark any point in a book with a Kindle as you read. You can also mark any specific passage and make notes related to it for yourself or to be shared. The issue PW is talking about is that you cannot easily read a page number in a table of contents and then go to that page, as you can in a book. I am not sure if how the recent update deals with this.

Thanks Rover. I clearly did not read what was written! I may give a Kindle a try. At the moment (for my needs)I cannot see the absolute need for going to a specific page number.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I have a Kindle 3...I find it adequate for reading. It does not match a paper book in any way, aesthetically speaking, but it does the job, and is extremely compact. When the iPad with retina display comes out, I'll probably use that more, but for now I really prefer the Kindle for casual reading.

I just bought Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" on it. The Kindle is perfect for things like this--I intend to read the book on a trip next month, and without the kindle it would take up half my travel bag!

It's no good for photos, but the iPad is excellent for photo books.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

BTW, self-promotion alert, but my last two books are now available in Kindle editions. And the annoying this is, when I asked my publisher for copies, they couldn't give them.

Also, try getting an author's autograph on one of these things!