Finally committed to an e-reader

[bekkiz]

I have a nook, and I love it, but I'll agree with the chorus of "you can't go wrong with either!"

However, there is a great piece of free software called calibre that functions as a organizer for ebooks but more importantly, will convert ebook formats. So, if you want the Kindle but like the library option, you could use calibre to conver the epub/pdf into the kindle format.

It isn't perfect. You sometimes wind up with some weird spacing but it works really well for a free program!

 

[bas71873]

Sort by publication date and the newest ones will come up first.

THANKS

ETA - Oh wait, I don't mean newest as is newly published, I mean newest as in new to the "freebie" section of ebooks. Does that make sense? Does the sort by pub date still work for that? I just don't want to have to scroll through pages of books everyday to find NEW free offerings. Maybe I'm not asking my question right???


ETA #2 - That does work golfgal. Thanks. I was thinking the pub date would be for the actual book, but it's for the Epub date. Cool. Thanks.

 

[wilderness01]

I'm thinking of getting one too. Please let us know how you like it.

 

[MickeyBA]

.

It's amazing what I've learned. My final decision was made at BN on Thursday. There were 3 of us looking and asking questions and that helped a lot. The BN employee was super knowledgeable too, which helped!

Awesome! Thanks.

 

[bas71873]

Awesome! Thanks.

If you have a BN close, go check them out, play with them, hold them. The first BN I went to, the lady didn't know squat about the Nook and was not very helpful at all. I justed popped in cause I was out & about. Then last week I went to the BN that is close to my house and the girl there was AWESOME.

You can hold & play with the Kindle too at Best Buy if you just want to compare the "feel" of the devices. I did that too, but there isn't anyone in the store that was helpful with questions about the devices.