So I’ve been regularly reading but in line with my life I’ve decided to go electronic for my reading…After coming back from the States I don’t like having many things…kinda a minimalist approach to life. My music is all digital and now it’s time to convert my books to digital too.
A couple of questions for those who read with electronic devices…How much space does a regular book require in bits/mbits…? What is a good reading device…? I’ve been looking at the Amazon Kindle paperwhite in 32 gig with wifi…Is that a good device?
Anyways. What do you recommend…I think @Moonbeam uses a kindle I’ve seen in posts? What are the pros and cons for these devices…much thanks…
My kindle paperwhite is from 2015 and it only has 4GB of storage which translates to ~3GB of usable storage. I currently have 500 e-books on it which uses 841MB of storage (2.22GB of storage is still available).
I love my kindle paperwhite. I haven’t read a paper book in ages. It’s all e-books for me.
Ahh thanks. I might not need like 32 but it’s either 8 or 32. If you reach your limit…is it like Itunes…can you still download that book to your account if you have to delete it? So> if you buy a book can you always download it even to a newer device?
Yeah, you don’t have to download all your books since you always have access to your e-books through your Amazon account. I have all of mine downloaded since I still have plenty of space on my kindle.
Most cool. I can pick up an 8 gig for $199 Aussie…looking at the books and like yes! There’s so many I am interested in and no books at home. Thanks for the feedback. I have to pay rego for the car this pay but when that is out of the way I’m getting myself a kindle. Very cool.
The PCWorld article talks about converting the pdf so it’s more readable on the small kindle screen size. There are apparently some drawbacks when doing this pdf conversion in terms of possibly orienting figures incorrectly or splitting figures over multiple pages. I imagine this could be an issue if reading technical papers with a lot of figures and charts.
