While I love print books (and we read them and have them squirrelled away all over our RV), I also download books using my library card from my last stix & brix residence. They have a great free checkout program for audio books.
I sew and knit for money, so with audio books, I can enjoy my loves of making things and literature at the same time!
Judy Johnson - 15 years ago
I can't sit still long enough to read so I download audible books and put them on CDs; I listen to them while driving. It also keeps me from getting drowsy.
J Osborne - 15 years ago
I read books on my iPhone. The backlit screen means I don't have to wake my wife to fumble around for a book light (a shame the kindle or nook don't have them!). Like the iPod Touch it also is something I'll have with me if I end up having to wait somewhere that would otherwise be boring (like a bank, or checkout line in the supermarket).
I use kindle on the iPhone for most of my books, but I also have the nook reader for the iPhone, so when B&N's price is lower I can get it from them.
Other then Sony all the ebook stores have a reader for the iPhone/iPod touch, so if you either like the iPhone screen, or don't mind it, you get the most choice of stores/available books/prices going that way. Smaller screen then almost all the book readers though.
Prices are lower then print books, but higher then used print books, or new bought print books minus what you would get selling them to a used book store. So if you don't reread books, that might be a better option.
Book selection is also smaller then print books, but growing pretty quick.
Note: I'm not a fulltimer, but I have plans on becoming one...my switch to ebooks actually happened before I started RVing. I noticed that the book I had on my phone was getting read far faster then the book that had been sitting next to my bed for months. Then I decided it didn't matter what advantages print books had, for me I was actually using ebooks more then print books, so it was the right choice for me. Other folks have other needs, so you all may make other choices. If you live full time in an RV though, I urge you to give ebooks a good thinking about. There is a good chance they are a better fit for you then print books.
I read constantly, but don't have the space or CCC to carry many physical books, so ebooks have been my salvation. In the past couple of years I've read hundreds of ebooks--mostly downloaded free from manybooks.net--on my Sony PRS-505 Reader, which has the exact same E-ink screen as a Kindle but in a slimmer, less button-cluttered package.
But my new favorite ebook reader is my iPod touch. I get books from the same public-domain and commercial sources (in fact, Amazon's free "Kindle for iPhone" software turns my iPod touch into a Kindle)... but unlike a Kindle or Sony Reader, the iPod touch is always in my shirt pocket. If I get stuck in traffic, or a slow supermarket line, or I have time to kill while waiting for the laundry to dry, I pull it out and read a few chapters from any of the dozens of books I have stored on it. It even downloads and plays free audiobooks--I listen to those while driving.
And of course the iPod touch can also run any of the 100,000+ other useful applications (many of them free) available in the online App Store... something the Kindle and Sony Reader can't do. Nowadays I do most of my reading on this pocket-sized device.
While I love print books (and we read them and have them squirrelled away all over our RV), I also download books using my library card from my last stix & brix residence. They have a great free checkout program for audio books.
I sew and knit for money, so with audio books, I can enjoy my loves of making things and literature at the same time!
I can't sit still long enough to read so I download audible books and put them on CDs; I listen to them while driving. It also keeps me from getting drowsy.
I read books on my iPhone. The backlit screen means I don't have to wake my wife to fumble around for a book light (a shame the kindle or nook don't have them!). Like the iPod Touch it also is something I'll have with me if I end up having to wait somewhere that would otherwise be boring (like a bank, or checkout line in the supermarket).
I use kindle on the iPhone for most of my books, but I also have the nook reader for the iPhone, so when B&N's price is lower I can get it from them.
Other then Sony all the ebook stores have a reader for the iPhone/iPod touch, so if you either like the iPhone screen, or don't mind it, you get the most choice of stores/available books/prices going that way. Smaller screen then almost all the book readers though.
Prices are lower then print books, but higher then used print books, or new bought print books minus what you would get selling them to a used book store. So if you don't reread books, that might be a better option.
Book selection is also smaller then print books, but growing pretty quick.
Note: I'm not a fulltimer, but I have plans on becoming one...my switch to ebooks actually happened before I started RVing. I noticed that the book I had on my phone was getting read far faster then the book that had been sitting next to my bed for months. Then I decided it didn't matter what advantages print books had, for me I was actually using ebooks more then print books, so it was the right choice for me. Other folks have other needs, so you all may make other choices. If you live full time in an RV though, I urge you to give ebooks a good thinking about. There is a good chance they are a better fit for you then print books.
I read constantly, but don't have the space or CCC to carry many physical books, so ebooks have been my salvation. In the past couple of years I've read hundreds of ebooks--mostly downloaded free from manybooks.net--on my Sony PRS-505 Reader, which has the exact same E-ink screen as a Kindle but in a slimmer, less button-cluttered package.
But my new favorite ebook reader is my iPod touch. I get books from the same public-domain and commercial sources (in fact, Amazon's free "Kindle for iPhone" software turns my iPod touch into a Kindle)... but unlike a Kindle or Sony Reader, the iPod touch is always in my shirt pocket. If I get stuck in traffic, or a slow supermarket line, or I have time to kill while waiting for the laundry to dry, I pull it out and read a few chapters from any of the dozens of books I have stored on it. It even downloads and plays free audiobooks--I listen to those while driving.
And of course the iPod touch can also run any of the 100,000+ other useful applications (many of them free) available in the online App Store... something the Kindle and Sony Reader can't do. Nowadays I do most of my reading on this pocket-sized device.