Just wondering if anyone has experience and or a preference for make of e-reader.

my daughters love the kendal

Love my iPad! We bought our daughter the Sony e-reader and it is good however you can only get books from the Sony website.

that was one of my concerns. What about the iPad, where can you get books for it.

Books for the iPad come from iBooks, Barnes &Noble, all epub books work. Libraries only have ePub and you can read them for free. It's wonderful. You cAn listen to your favorite music and read at the same time, pop over and check your email. I gave my Nook to my GD.

I have a sony ereader. It is very simple but can only get books from sony site. Gave daughter the nook color for christmas. does much more and has a better selection of books and can get newspaers and magazines on it plus send to other aps so I am told and lend out books. daughter loves it but it is way too complicated for me.

I have the nook color and love it. The Ipad was too expensive for an e-reader for us.

I read on my iPod touch! I know the screen is too small for a lot of people, but (like the iPad) I have apps for not only iBooks but also Kindle, Nook, and eReader. That means I can buy from just about anywhere I like, which is helpful when only one place has a book I want.

I'm on MacBook.....a laptop & have downloaded the Kindle reader from Amazon.Easy to do, free & have that nice size screen to read on.I download free Kindle editions from Amazon.
Now our library has a different free reader program set up & I'm going to figure that out too.That'll be all the reading I can handle :)

I have the Kobo ereader and just love it. I have had it for awhile. It comes with 100 free classic books already downloaded on it. I have never had any troubles with it at all. It also supports library lending of ebooks. There are many free ebooks on the Kobo site plus the Chapters site and other sites out there that have free ebooks. It can hold up to 1000 books and also has a slot to put one of those little memory cards which you can add more books too.

I also use a program www.calibre-ebook.com that will transfer files from one type of file to another so if there is a ebook that I would like to read that the Kobo doesn't support the file type you can use calibre to transfer the file into a file that Kobo supports. This site is also free.

I love my Kindle!

I have the Nook...regular, not color. I love it! I think they are pretty similar.

I have a Nook - I was deciding between it and a Kindle and chose the Nook because I wanted to be able to download books from the library.

I have the Nook color also. I love it, it does so much

That www.calibre-ebook.com looks sooo complicated.Sigh....some of this electronic info is way beyond me :(

Tell me more.DD is interested in the ones you mentioned.

How hard is it to read via iPad? DD has one & trying to decide if she needs a reader too.

I would like to know too But i do want one that you can hear the story too.

Pat,

You know it is really easy ... you just download the file to the calibre and make sure the book you want to convert is highlighted and there is a button at the top you click to convert and that is it. I am not computer savy ... and I did figure it out. Once you do it twice you will have no problem in doing it!!

[quote=plainpat]That www.calibre-ebook.com looks sooo complicated.Sigh....some of this electronic info is way beyond me :(

Thanks.......doesn't sound too painful :)

[quote=SLHughes]Pat,

You know it is really easy ... you just download the file to the calibre and make sure the book you want to convert is highlighted and there is a button at the top you click to convert and that is it. I am not computer savy ... and I did figure it out. Once you do it twice you will have no problem in doing it!!

i have a nook (not color) that i got at Christmas and I really like it. It has the capability to download from sites other than Barnes and Noble, though I haven't used that feature yet. Barnes and Noble has quite a few free downloads. It has a touch screen at the bottom, which I like. It downloads wirelessly from the Barnes and Noble site if you have access to a wireless network, which we do in our house for the laptop. It also has soemthing like 7 different text sizes to choose from.

My MIL has the Sony Pocket Reader, and I don't like it nearly as well. No wireless capability and no touchpad.