I have a 4G Touch and apps for... lessee: Stanza, iBooks, and Nook. I might have had a fourth that I deleted. I thought Stanza was much better than the others, actually. But I also don't use any of them that much -- I put some free ebooks on in case I need a time-killer, and one how-to (ish) book that I only read in bits and pieces anyway. If I had a long metro commute or something, I'd use it then. I don't like reading on it enough to do so when I'm at home and have already been staring at screens for 8 hours.
-- Oh, but a friend has the 3G and she definitely reads on it a lot; we were talking about that recently. I'll ask which apps she uses.
I have a bunch of e-reader apps on my iPhone and I never use any of them. (Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Stanza...maybe one other one?)
I love reading on the Kindle, but I think mine may be dead. It's a first-gen I bought used for $75, and unfortunately I can't afford to replace it with a new one, so I'm hoping I can bring it back to life or maybe just replace the battery.
Well, my 4G Touch will work for e-books, but I'd never call it a replacement for an e-reader.
The nice thing about iBooks is that it will accept pdfs, so I put knitting patterns and the like from the Internet on there, so I can get at them, even when I have no wifi.
The Case of the First Mystery Novelist [link]
That was wicked cool, Ginger!
Isn't it? I may have to figure out how to read it.
So totally awesome although I was disappointed the
Disraeli
theory didn't pan out. Roomies may have heard my shouted, "what?!" when I read that part.
ION- Once again the library book club has forced me to read a book I never would have and I absolutely loved it. Follet's World Without End is now the longest book I've read and although I laughed when the librarian said it, it did go pretty fast.
I couldn't resist sharing some of the more gripping parts with anyone within earshot and for once it seemed the housemates weren't totally uninterested in my gibbering. D loved the part about how chivalry made the French very bad at war and F enjoyed reliving with me the etymology of the word 'quarantine'.
I was very frustrated with the monks' adherence to the treatment of humors and I wonder if I will be able to stand their idea of medicine if should read the first book, Pillars of the Earth, knowing what I know now.
I finished The Magicians! I think I disliked it much less than my friend, but I do agree that the first 2/3 were significantly better than the last third. It sort of bothered me that Fillory was so blatantly just Narnia; but then I also think that had he called it Narnia it would have felt like glorified fanfiction, where it clearly was more than that. But when they ever got to The Neitherlands, with all the fountains leading to other worlds, I was just like Who paved over the Wood Between the Worlds?? And I don't even like the Narnia books.
I feel like there are a lot of really interesting themes in the book, in terms of the things you most wish for turning out to not be so great, but I also feel as though something just went wrong in the execution somewhere.
