tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-940069258924140517.post1702848717027412126..comments2019-11-20T06:21:07.884-07:00Comments on Mrs.Turkey's Lists: E-ReadingMrs. Turkey Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16311396885812611477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-940069258924140517.post-61401245963848542492012-09-28T23:55:43.569-06:002012-09-28T23:55:43.569-06:00Heya! I'm not sure what the technical solution...Heya! I'm not sure what the technical solution would be, but I think the practical solution is simply to practice LSU/SSU with paper books, textbooks, newspapers, etc. and then just trust to your eyes when reading on a Kindle. I think what you'll notice is that once you're comfortably and habitually reading with LSU in paper books that the speed and efficiency will naturally transfer over to electronic mediums. At least, that's what I've noticed. Let me know what you find works for you! :DMrs. Turkey Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16311396885812611477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-940069258924140517.post-14182317982480397012012-09-26T15:09:04.414-06:002012-09-26T15:09:04.414-06:00Hi, Mrs. Turkey Bird
I was recently enrolled in yo...Hi, Mrs. Turkey Bird<br />I was recently enrolled in your fall reading class and am continuing to practice the speed reading techniques. I have quite a few books on my to-read list and can get a few of those for free on my Kindle. I'm concerned though that long/short smooth underline is going to damage the screen, with finger print oils and whatnot. I'm hoping you have some insight on this. Please let me knowHallienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-940069258924140517.post-39209562015024103762011-09-06T17:37:45.515-06:002011-09-06T17:37:45.515-06:00I love my Kindle. I love that it is not backlit, a...I love my Kindle. I love that it is not backlit, and is so much easier on my eyes. I love all the free books out there and I love that I can read the classics for free. I love how portable it is too!Just Jaimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13713379359067478240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-940069258924140517.post-72220446493933289072011-05-17T09:03:23.812-06:002011-05-17T09:03:23.812-06:00I love my Sony Reader! I bought it when Thalia (bo...I love my Sony Reader! I bought it when Thalia (bookstore giant) started their e-reader clearance to focus on their own product. So I got it rather cheap and it's only a basic model, even though I had a choice and there were better ones - however, comparing them I bought mine.<br /><br />What I find most useful is that I can adapt the font size and that the display allows me to read the text clearly from any angle. When I buy a book the printing is much smaller and sometimes causes a headache when I read for hours. Cheap paper sometimes even causes slightly blurred letters, especially in my beloved paperbacks. <br /><br />And that's point number two I like. I dislike (!) hardcovers for their size - and sometimes weight. Reading a novel from a Bronte's collected works, or Wilde, or Shakespeare from a bigger volume is a real pain. Now I can just download the complete works on my reader and have a small tablet in my hand. And the best of it all is: I get the books for free!!! Projekt Gutenberg has all the pdfs and sometimes epubs downloadable and since I'm mostly into classic literature, it's a real treasure chest for me! Dante's Divine Comedy even has pictures in the electronic version! I really like ebooks!<br /><br />But I also like real modern and recent novels. They are really expensive over here, even the Kindle versions. The sellers are not allowed to sell books for any price, so they must make sure the ebooks are about the same as the analogue versions. So I hardly ever buy ebooks. I might consider buying them in the US, but I haven't found anything worth reading / buying so far, so I never tried.<br /><br />We have a store which has "Free Book Day" every Thursday. Mostly the books they give away for free are totally boring, but sometimes they're really good. I downloaded a lot of books there over the last few months, it's quite nice. Noone would give analogue books away for free!<br /><br />There are still texts I prefer as a book. Texts I deal with in class, for example. I need to scribble down notes next to the text or highlight passages, I find this hard to do with an electronic device. So I don't think books will be replaced by ereaders in the nearer future - hopefully!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00191897143413403747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-940069258924140517.post-31329067939189050482011-05-05T06:34:51.274-06:002011-05-05T06:34:51.274-06:00Okay, you and I have had this conversation, but fo...Okay, you and I have had this conversation, but for the sake of Prosperity, I'll re-hash it on here. :)<br /><br />I received an iPad for my birthday. I wasn't at all wanting one, but who can turn away that kind of gift! So, I started playing with it, and I found the eBook reader. I decided to give it a shot, so I went to the iBooks store and started "surfing the shelves". My first thought was that this was a pain because, unlike at any given bookstore, you had to search for specific titles / authors / or categories. I realized VERY quickly that categories are much more specific than my little brain thinks because I had a VERY hard time finding anything that I wanted to read. Finally, however, I found one, so I downloaded it, and I began to read through it. A few days later, I boarded a plane headed for Lubbock Texas from Boston (which turned out to be an extraordinarily long flight between two stops and one layover). It was then that I really began to enjoy it, because, like you, I was able to bring a couple of books with me without taking up my entire carry-on. <br /><br />When I finished the books I had bought, I again found myself struggling to find something of interest to me in the iBooks store. I then saw a commercial on television for the Kindle…and I noticed, in very small print at the bottom of the screen that Kindle was also available for iPad. Could it be?! Could there be a Kindle App?! I raced upstairs to retrieve my iPad, and after a few short moments, I had the Kindle App downloaded, and I was surfing through the greatness that is Amazon.com. PLENTY of books to read, decent prices. I thought I’d found my happiest point with the iPad. I was wrong.<br /><br />I recently received an email from one of my very dear friends from college, and she confided in me that she had written a book, and she wanted to get my opinion on it. She sent it over to me in PDF format, and within a few minutes, I had this book loaded on my iPad and I was able to read it just as I did any other eBook. I was able to take it with me wherever I went, and that gave me the ability to read the book within days rather than within weeks (if I had been chained to a computer to do so). THIS is when I had the great iPad epiphany. While I still love the feel of a book in my hands, the smell of the pages, the sound of the pages turning, I had found my new favorite. <br /><br />I love reading on my iPad, and now that I’ve gotten the Kindle app on there (along with numerous PDFs that I have collected over the last few years, I have LOTS of good reading material to keep me entertained…for a while at least.Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471309964628000011noreply@blogger.com