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Amazon Kindle (refurb) for $110

I don't understand why a little thing with a black and white screen like this that does nothing but display text even costs $110.

I'll buy one when they are $20.
 
MJinZ said:
I don't understand why a little thing with a black and white screen like this that does nothing but display text even costs $110.

I'll buy one when they are $20.
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After having the Nook for a few weeks I can see the appeal. I paid $150 which I think is about right for them. This is coming from somebody who already has a ton of ebooks, so I won't be paying anything more than the initial cost of the device. If I was buying ebooks at $10-15 plus the device cost then I'd feel totally ripped off, but these are very solid devices for the money if you read. The screen truly is a marvel at how similar it looks to ink-on-paper... something you'll never understand until you actually see it and read on it.

Also keep in mind it has wifi and unlimited 3G connection in the case of the Kindle and higher model Nook.
 
Only way I'd buy one of these is if there is some way I can send my old books to amazon.com and have them converted to the kindle file. Bought way too many books in the past that would go to waste with a Kindle.
 
DrunkenSano said:
Only way I'd buy one of these is if there is some way I can send my old books to amazon.com and have them converted to the kindle file. Bought way too many books in the past that would go to waste with a Kindle.
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There's a software called Calibre that converts any ebook you have into any other format you want.
 
DrunkenSano said:
Only way I'd buy one of these is if there is some way I can send my old books to amazon.com and have them converted to the kindle file. Bought way too many books in the past that would go to waste with a Kindle.
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Kindle can accept plain text, mobi, prc, topaz, and .pdf.

Calibre can convert just about any ebook format into one of the 5 extensions I listed.

What format are your current ebooks?
 
gorcorps said:
After having the Nook for a few weeks I can see the appeal. I paid $150 which I think is about right for them. This is coming from somebody who already has a ton of ebooks, so I won't be paying anything more than the initial cost of the device. If I was buying ebooks at $10-15 plus the device cost then I'd feel totally ripped off, but these are very solid devices for the money if you read. The screen truly is a marvel at how similar it looks to ink-on-paper... something you'll never understand until you actually see it and read on it.

Also keep in mind it has wifi and unlimited 3G connection in the case of the Kindle and higher model Nook.
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Yea, but ... if I wanted to read a book, I'd just go buy it at a store. And I'd have no problems about reading it at the beach, getting it wet, lost or whatever.
 
> Yea, but ... if I wanted to read a book, I'd just go buy it at a store.

With my Kindle I can go to the Amazon store, pick a book, and have it downloaded in under a minute. It's faster than the checkout line at a bookstore, let alone the trip there and back.

But yes, dropping it into the ocean would be more expensive than with a paper book.
 
MJinZ said:
Yea, but ... if I wanted to read a book, I'd just go buy it at a store. And I'd have no problems about reading it at the beach, getting it wet, lost or whatever.
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Which is fine for some people. Me, I live in a state that has no ocean. Beach? I've heard of em but never see them... I use this at school, home, etc... I can read the daily newspaper on it without getting my fingers filthy or having it delivered. At $10-15 a piece for a book, you could buy 10 of them before you reach the cost of an ereader. I have a hefty starting cost, but again I'll be able to read as many books as I want on it at no additional cost. While it may be cool to some to have all their books on a shelf, I personally enjoy not NEEDING that type of furniture. I'm not trying to convince you because obviously we have different needs, but just realize that some folks get much more out of their $150 than others. I only have to read 10 books to cover my cost.
 
gorcorps said:
Which is fine for some people. Me, I live in a state that has no ocean. Beach? I've heard of em but never see them... I use this at school, home, etc... I can read the daily newspaper on it without getting my fingers filthy or having it delivered. At $10-15 a piece for a book, you could buy 10 of them before you reach the cost of an ereader. I have a hefty starting cost, but again I'll be able to read as many books as I want on it at no additional cost. While it may be cool to some to have all their books on a shelf, I personally enjoy not NEEDING that type of furniture. I'm not trying to convince you because obviously we have different needs, but just realize that some folks get much more out of their $150 than others. I only have to read 10 books to cover my cost.
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Eh? If I read 10 books, then it costs me $150.

If you read 10 books, it cost you $300.

I can read 20 books for the same cost as you.

You would have to read 100 books for the Kindle to have cost 10% of what you spent. 1000 books to really make it a meaningless 1% of total cost. ^_^

I'll read 20 books in the span of 20 years, so it's definitely not worth it to me. :awe:
 
MJinZ said:
Eh? If I read 10 books, then it costs me $150.

If you read 10 books, it cost you $300.

I can read 20 books for the same cost as you.

You would have to read 100 books for the Kindle to have cost 10% of what you spent. 1000 books to really make it a meaningless 1% of total cost. ^_^

I'll read 20 books in the span of 20 years, so it's definitely not worth it to me. :awe:
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No, my point is that I'm reading e-books that I already have access to... so they didn't cost me a thing. There's a ton of free ebooks that would still cost money to get a hard capy. 1984, for example, is a book that's free in Australia because of their copyright laws right now, so I have a free ebook of that. That book still runs $15 for a hard copy. I also have copies of american classics like Tom Sawyer, Last of the Mohicans, etc that B&N offered over the 4th of July weekend for free. They don't hand out free copies of real books, so it's money saved.
 
There were a couple of hardcovers I wanted to read this year instead of waiting a year for the paperback. For one of them the Kindle edition was $4 cheaper, for the other it was $9 cheaper from baen.com (Baen prices ebooks at $6 almost as soon as the hardcover is out). Another book I wanted to read was in the Baen free library, saving me $8 over buying the paperback.

So I saved $23 on the trio, making a step towards breaking even on my $190 Kindle.

It's not worth the effort for me to re-sell books. With the Kindle I can just keep them but not have them take up any room besides some bits on a hard drive.
 
DaveSimmons said:
There were a couple of hardcovers I wanted to read this year instead of waiting a year for the paperback. For one of them the Kindle edition was $4 cheaper, for the other it was $9 cheaper from baen.com (Baen prices ebooks at $6 almost as soon as the hardcover is out). Another book I wanted to read was in the Baen free library, saving me $8 over buying the paperback.

So I saved $23 on the trio, making a step towards breaking even on my $190 Kindle.

It's not worth the effort for me to re-sell books. With the Kindle I can just keep them but not have them take up any room besides some bits on a hard drive.
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You can't resell e-books? That kind of sucks.
 
This reminds me a bit of Steam. Oh how perfect that system is at retarding used game sales.
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Yep, but I'd rather save a little cash on Steam games (or a lot on the crazy sales) for the convenience, even if I lose the chance to resell a game.

Steam and e-readers aren't for everyone and maybe not for every game or book, but for some of us they are a good deal.
 
Personally I think that Wi-Fi on these devices is a waste, and the 3G connection on the Nook, is even more of a waste. The chances of connecting to a Wi-Fi network to download an ebook for an average Joe are very remote. I mean.. WHY?! When I can always come home, connect my Nook to a PC and download ebooks to it that way... It's not like it's an emergency and I HAVE to do it while I am out... Maybe, just maybe, I could be flying somewhere, and in the airport, being extremely bored, I may wish to connect to a Wi-Fi network and download an ebook. But you can bet your ass I will upload enough books to my Nook in advance to keep me busy until the next time I am home! There should be an option to buy a Nook/Kindle without Wi-Fi which is at least $50 cheaper if not more.

All that being said, I think that Nook is much better than a Kindle 2 but probably NOT better than a Kindle DX because of a large screen.

The Nook looks better, it lets you use micro-SD cards to expand memory and via a latest firmware update it can FINALLY let you jump to any page in a book!!! Halleluyah! One might think that should have been there all this time, but no.. apparently it's an extremely hard to implement feature reserved only for the chosen and that elite...


My only major complaint about the Nook is that by far not all books display properly... Sentenses and what's even worse, words, get cut off, it is not always possible to resize fonts properly, and sometimes books just look like a friggin' mess... Still it's a hell of a lot better than reading on a PC screen or printing these books out. I love my e-book reader, and I cant wait untill further advancements in this technology are made and prices lowered. Knowlege is power!
 
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