[meowbunny]

Just finished Water for Elephants, The Kite Runner, Blue Gold by Cussler and The Confession by Grisham. All very good to excellent! Presently reading Sizzlin Sixteen by Evanovich, Cure by Robin Cook and The Vorpal Blade by Ringo Starr. Yes, all three at once. If you like scifi, I highly recommend Starr. Sizzlin Sixteen is my pool book. Cure is too easy to put down right now. I'm hoping it gets better.

[uujudy]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

My iPad has reader's choices. One choice is for reading in bed at night .... I'd assume it is backlit, it has a black screen with bright letters, so you don't need to have a reading light on. I love it. And there is another type of screen for daytime reading. And the iPad also has a choice of the size of print.

I'm taking notes!

[BeeGee]

Originally Posted by uujudy

BeeGee what does this mean? I thought backlit meant that I could read it in bed? Wouldn't that be a good thing? Is backlit harder to see?

Kindle has "e-ink" whatever that is - it was explained that the reading is similar to a real page, as in real book, real newspaper - all I know is the online "geeks" (I mean this in the kindest way) that review the ereaders say that the e-ink is easier on the eyes - not like reading a computer screen, that's very tiring. Anyway, yes, you would need a reading light to read in bed....they have those especially for the kindles, attaches right to it. It is so user-friendly.....and best of all, it works for me!

[uujudy]

I'm reading This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy. It's a little gem of a book of short stories all centered around the Christmas season.

I love Maeve Binchy so I picked it up at Perkins Pancakes last week. (They have books that you can take home for a donation to a children's group)

And, I discovered another reason to get an e-reader while trying to hold the book open with a banana while I ate dinner tonight. E-readers lie flat all by themselves!

[barb1191]

Hub Bill is reading "Atlas Shrugged" on the iPad and I'm reading "The Help" on the Kindle. This hi-tech stuff is fantastic and certainly makes it so easy to read more and more and more as these great novels are at one's fingertips......Luv it......b

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by barb1191

Hub Bill is reading "Atlas Shrugged" on the iPad and I'm reading "The Help" on the Kindle. This hi-tech stuff is fantastic and certainly makes it so easy to read more and more and more as these great novels are at one's fingertips......Luv it......b

Barb .. In the iPad versus Kindle controversy, which is your preference for reading e-books?

[LI SNOWBIRD]

Originally Posted by barb1191

Hub Bill is reading "Atlas Shrugged" on the iPad and I'm reading "The Help" on the Kindle. This hi-tech stuff is fantastic and certainly makes it so easy to read more and more and more as these great novels are at one's fingertips......Luv it......b

You are an adventurous reader Bill--- Atlas Shrugged isn't for the casual reader.

[barb1191]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Barb .. In the iPad versus Kindle controversy, which is your preference for reading e-books?

BF....That's a good question that I never gave thought to as we enjoy both so much. However, a plus with the iPad is that one can read in "landscape" mode which allows you to read two pages on the screen (like an open book) and the kindle has the "portrait" mode only, showing one page at a time.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by barb1191

BF....That's a good question that I never gave thought to as we enjoy both so much. However, a plus with the iPad is that one can read in "landscape" mode which allows you to read two pages on the screen (like an open book) and the kindle has the "portrait" mode only, showing one page at a time.

The iPad has a landscape mode?? News to me, and I read on my iPad all the time. How do you access landscape mode?

I love the backlit feature for reading in bed, love it ... no reading light necessary to disturb Fireboy's sleep.

[barb1191]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

The iPad has a landscape mode?? News to me, and I read on my iPad all the time. How do you access landscape mode?

I love the backlit feature for reading in bed, love it ... no reading light necessary to disturb Fireboy's sleep.

If your iPad doesn't automatically change from landscape to portrait just by holding it in either position, then go to "Settings" and then click on "Video" then turn "ON" "Widescreen."

When I first got the iPad, it would flip-flop automatically to widescreen or portrait, but recently it hasn't been doing that as it stays in widescreen (landscape language in computers). We're now up North at our inlaw digs and will ask my great-grandson Kyle (15 y/o) to check this out. Am still not too savvy on the iPad, but do enjoy what simple things I do on it, and of course the e-reader is great. Kyle has been doing the add-on's and fixin's for us. Amazing how easy this comes to the kids, and this hi-tech stuff is beyond me, although I do manage, with much patience and fortitude.

[Pat_RI]

Reading Pat Conroy.

[Avista]

I had my Nook a long time and loved it. My husband is now reading the Nook and I am reading on my iPad. There are a couple of benefits of the iPad. I downloaded Nook, Kindle and and iBook Apps and can price check each to see if the prices vary. If I think my husband would enjoy the book, I always order on the Nook as it will go to both devises-Nook and iPad. I prefer, just a little, the eink of the Nook or Kindle. However, one can turn the glare down very easily with the iPad. Once I discovered this, the reading was much easier on my eyes.

[Pturner]

I'm reading, Alice I Have Been, by Melanie Benjamin. It's a novel about the real life Alice Liddell, who was the inspiration for Lewis Carol's (real name,
Charles Dodgson), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I'm about 1/3 way through and it is delightful so far. I was a big "Alice in Wonderland" fan as a kid, so this book peaked my interest.

My book club is reading, Babylon Revisited, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I've just started it.

Loved, The help, and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

[LI SNOWBIRD]

Originally Posted by Pat_RI

Reading Pat Conroy.

I've read him.. what a damaged childhood he must have had.

[Larry Wilson]

"Rise To Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara