I finally got my Nook!

[brewcrew]

Now I don't know what to read!!!! It's a little different than going to the book store and perusing the aisles!!!

 

[RachaelA]

I'm currently reading Water for Elephants on my nook. I like it

Congrats on your new nook!

 

[Ceila]

Remember that you can download books from your local library if they offer e-books!

 

[Tinkerbelle32]

Oh, I almost bought that book,"Water For Elephants". I believe bn had it for $5. Is the storyline good?

 

[LOVETHATMOUSE]

I still go to the book stores and check out what they have, make a list, then purchase it on my nook, or download from the library. I love going to bookstores...couldn't give that up.

 

[racechick8293]

Oh, I almost bought that book,"Water For Elephants". I believe bn had it for $5. Is the storyline good?

I liked Water for Elephants. Interesting read, and a satisfying ending.

 

[cluvsdisney]

Enjoy! I just got one for Christmas and I LOVE it! I still have to hook it up with the library but I love having multiple books at one time. Barnes & Noble has a bunch of classic collections of 50 books each for $2.99 plus a selection of free books.

 

[TLuvsD]

I love the library books on my Nook...and it saves me from buying a lot of books from BN. Also check out kobo.com. And I like the nookdeals.blogspot.com there are usually free and low cost recommendations daily.

Enjoy! I love my Nook.

 

[bicker]

Now I don't know what to read!!!! It's a little different than going to the book store and perusing the aisles!!!

I haven't perused aisles in books stores very much for the last ten years, due to amazon.com.

At one point, I went through my shelves (and my memory), with my laptop along, and entered my rating for most every novel I've read recently, into amazon.com's website. And then I spent sometime with their recommendations engine, marking recommendations that I had already read with my rating of the book, and thereby further refining the ratings. Now, their recommendations are almost as good as my own random searching through shelves in a bookstore.

The rest is made up by the fact that I can still peruse "aisles" in amazon.com's bookstore, opening up books and reading a few pages, but also benefiting from myriad customer reviews for each book. If I was lucky there would be someone else in the aisle in the bookstore who'd recommend some specific book with a rationale that resonated with my tastes, but generally, in a bookstore, people don't make eye contact , or if they do, they would only go as far as saying, "I liked this," without explaining why, the way that folks do in the customer reviews on amazon.com.

I believe Barnes & Noble's website has all the same features.

There were actually two other things that I used to go on, in picking new books to read.

First, I found that, after a while, I could pick out potentially interesting books to read by the style of the artwork on the cover. It seems that certain types of books tend to "sell themselves" using the same cover art motifs. I can still do that, I suppose, on amazon.com, but I find that it is no longer as useful of a technique any longer.

Second, I found that booked that were edited by the same editor tended to work just as well for me: I tended to like the books edited by the editor of books I liked, and I generally didn't like the books edited by the editor of books I didn't like. That's one bit of information which you often can get very easily from opening a physical book that you cannot get that easily from amazon.com's website.

 

[Gillennj]

Oh, I almost bought that book,"Water For Elephants". I believe bn had it for $5. Is the storyline good?

I loved WFE. I am reading it now for a second time. The movie looks like it will be good, too.

 

[brewcrew]

Thanks everyone!

 

[Kycha]

I'm currently reading Water for Elephants on my nook. I like it

Congrats on your new nook!

Oh, I almost bought that book,"Water For Elephants". I believe bn had it for $5. Is the storyline good?

It is still $5 and I've been thinking about buying it for weeks now. I just have soooo many books already loaded on my Nook I can't justify buying a book. Even if it's only 5 bucks. Does WFE have the lendme feature?

 

[RachaelA]

It is still $5 and I've been thinking about buying it for weeks now. I just have soooo many books already loaded on my Nook I can't justify buying a book. Even if it's only 5 bucks. Does WFE have the lendme feature?

I just checked. It doesn't or I would have lended it to you.

Definitely check your local library and see if they have it as an ebook. Mine did, but I had to get put on the waitlist for it and it didn't come before my Disney trip so I bought it (and then my turn on the waitlist came the next day! of course!).

I've found a lot of books aren't part of the lendme feature.

 

[Kycha]

I just checked. It doesn't or I would have lended it to you.

Definitely check your local library and see if they have it as an ebook. Mine did, but I had to get put on the waitlist for it and it didn't come before my Disney trip so I bought it (and then my turn on the waitlist came the next day! of course!).

I've found a lot of books aren't part of the lendme feature.

Thanks for looking. Yeah, fortunately the lendme feature wasn't the big selling point for me...just an added bonus. Thanks for the tip about the library. I just moved here and my county's library does not have ebooks. But they are part of a library consortium and the library the next county over does have ebook lending. Plus, I'm thinking of joining Free Library of Philly just for the ebooks.

 

[luvthemouse71]

It is still $5 and I've been thinking about buying it for weeks now. I just have soooo many books already loaded on my Nook I can't justify buying a book. Even if it's only 5 bucks. Does WFE have the lendme feature?

Welcome to the crazy world of book hoarding.. Happens to many with an ereader..I have dozens of books on both my Nook and my Kindle that I haven't read yet..

 

[skip323]

Well...I have found my Nook to be a real BUDGET BUSTER!!!!!
It is so convenient to "grab" a new book when I am done with the last. No waiting to go to the store. Nothing. I have also found a bunch of books/ series that I had not heard of but went and read because they were on sale for the week!!! I'm loving it but I have got to learn to download from the library!!!! This may, in fact, be my financial downfall!!!

 

[Td1290]

Bought my daughter one for Christmas, are all the purchased books able to be lent back and forth? I can't figure this out.

 

[RachaelA]

Bought my daughter one for Christmas, are all the purchased books able to be lent back and forth? I can't figure this out.

Only certain ones. You can check online or on the nook. There should be a little Lendme Logo somewhere near the title (I've never actually looked at the option on the nook. Only online).

 

[Cindy B]

Well...I have found my Nook to be a real BUDGET BUSTER!!!!!
It is so convenient to "grab" a new book when I am done with the last. No waiting to go to the store. Nothing. I have also found a bunch of books/ series that I had not heard of but went and read because they were on sale for the week!!! I'm loving it but I have got to learn to download from the library!!!! This may, in fact, be my financial downfall!!!

Exact opposite for me. I have over 100 titles and I have only purchased one! I check out the free threads and really get into the free fridays, free wednesdays, free bonus holiday books and all that.

I really got into the Kaplan books- I thinK I downloaded about 110 of the 130 that were available for free.

 

[Kycha]

Exact opposite for me. I have over 100 titles and I have only purchased one! I check out the free threads and really get into the free fridays, free wednesdays, free bonus holiday books and all that.

I really got into the Kaplan books- I thinK I downloaded about 110 of the 130 that were available for free.

Free Wednesdays??? I hadn't heard of that. I know about the free Fridays. Are they still doing Free Wednesdays? How do I find out about that? Oh, and I agree with you. I have tons of free books that I've downloaded. I have over 200 books and only bought 5 or 6.