My husband, got tired of hearing me sigh over the kindle II and told me to get one already. Previous to this I got a Nokkia 770 (last November) which did well enough for reading ebooks, except I kept running out of battery because my eyes are not so good, and I had to keep pumping up the back light.
Arrived yesterday and SO FAR very impressed. Will report as I get better acquainted with it. :)
There are of course books I’ll never get rid of — like most hardcovers and definitely most signed hardcovers. However, I’m contemplating what to do with about 10,000 very used paperbacks. :)
According To Hoyt 
easy..make a list..make a little list. put the list on your LJ..or a link to the list and See who wants what. If someone wants a box or 2 worth they send you the $ for the freight since you can just tell them your GIVING them away. What people don’t send a list and the money for to ship in say…2mos time, start giving to the used book stores. Don’t know if you’ve got them at home but guaranteed to be in Denver..so trade em in there for cash.
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Oh I’m so jealous.
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Give them to me! Give them to me!*
More realistically, there are probably some very interesting and possibly out-of-print books in there. You could stick titles and prices on a webpage somewhere and sell them that way. (Thus avoiding most fees, although you might still have payment processing costs.) This only works if you have the time, of course. Or know someone else who’s willing to do it in exchange for a cut of the proceeds.
Also, I hate to point this out, but if you’re going to buy Kindle replacements for 10,000 paperbacks… it’s possibly going to be expensive…
* This probably won’t make any sense to most people, come to think of it, because it’s a riff on an Australian TV ad where all the people in the streets are watching some kids playing football and saying “Kick it to me! Kick it to me!”
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well, the problem is that I used to read mysteries like other people chew bubble gum. On vacation six or seven a day. I actually realized I needed to get rid of a bunch of them pre-kindle.
And yeah, selling them — um — would probably pay for a lot of the replacements I need.
However, the writing books I no longer want (for various reasons) I’ll be giving way, for the price of mailing. Watch this space. :)
Sarah
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*grins* Doesn’t everyone read like that?
If you have anything by Dorothy Sayers or Lois Stewart or Diana Delmore or Elsie Lee (or her pseudonyms), may I put my hand up early? (We can chat about appropriate compensation and postage, given that I live on the other side of the world…)
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If you have any books on editing you’re throwing out, I’ll take em ;)
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Hey Sarah!
Good for you, a new toy! I’ve been lusting over the Sony Reader at the local Books – A – Million store. How is the Kindle 2 better? I’m assuming you believe it to be so or you’d have bought a Sony. I promised myself that when my next bonus check arrives (if ever, in this economy), I’ll take a chunk out and treat myself. I’d like to know what you think…
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Linda,
I’ve never dealt with the Sony. Part of the kindle is the convenience of Amazon buying. There is also the text to speech. While I realize it’s still mechanical, the text to speech allows me to listen to stories while I’m cleaning or working on my art. It’s good enough for me to tune out the “mechanical sounding” and be able to listen for the words. It’s what tipped me over to the kindle II over the Irex Illiad, for which I was determined to wait. :)
Before Christmas I was determined to be good. Good, d*mn it, so I bought the Nokia 770 which was actually fairly good. There is a share ware app. that makes it a very good ebook reader. And it’s available in ebay for less than a hundred.
The problem with it, ultimately, is the problem I had with the alphasmart keyboard and why I got an eee instead — because my eyes got very bad after I tok a tumble in the bathroom four years ago and gave myself concussion. (Actually it was a direct result of hitting my head. My eye doctor says my eyes looked like those of head-on car crash victims. I went from seeing okay without glasses to two sets of glasses, one super-strong for reading.)
Because I now see so badly, I needed to put the back lighting (Nokia is, natch, not e-ink) so high that it ran out of batteries in two hours, which because my reading sessions last more like eight to ten, got very frustrating. other than than, though a much smaller screen at al it was a very serviceable book reader. (Being passed to Robert.)
So far reading the kindle is exactly like reading on paper. About the weight of a pback on the hands, and the navigation is fairly instinctive.
Best of all, between it and the eee I can take an entire office, research and all, in my purse, when we have to go somewhere.
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