Another iPad thread: What e-book store is your favorite?

[Lost-in-FL]

I use my ipad mostly as my ebook reader and I find the selection in iBooks boring and with many of my favorite authors or books missing or relatively expensive compared to other ebook servers. Is it just me?

What's your favorite iPad e-reader?

iBook

B&N

Amazon.com?

Other.

[romana]

1. Kindle App

Still the best, and honestly, the most elegant to use. iBooks just doesn't have the content yet, and the B&N eReader is just clunky. I often look for books in the iBooks store, but usually what I want can be found only in the Kindle App.

[alfredo]

2. I use Kindle but soon I will be trying iBook

Just finished Emil Zola's "The Downfall." I find it is easier for my eyes because it is so bright. I can read longer per session than I used to.


BTW, the book is free and well worth reading. Now it is off the Phillip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Barnes and Noble

I have been able to find some really specialized shit on it. (NO, not necessarily cheap)

Though I use the IPOD version. Also I have to give props to the NOOK STUDY computer based client, which also uses my books. Great for preparing class... or if you are a student, for studying.

[Touchdown]

4. No preference on readers, but I like B&N for the selection now.

[av8rdave]

5. I've been using Stanza quite a bit

It's especially good for all the free stuff in Project Gutenberg, which has given me many happy, enlightening and free hours of reading.

[Lost-in-FL]

6. I Used to have a Nook and was able...

To move all my previous purchases to my iPad. I tested Kindle but went back to nook app.

[alfredo]

7. Whichever one has the book I am looking for.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. none...

I still prefer the feel and smell of a book in my hand. Computers are great for message boards, but I cannot read books with them.

[Lost-in-FL]

9. I know what you mean.

I use e-books for school mostly because I don't have to carry so many of them at once and also because it is easier to still read at night with all the lights out. I still keep my favorite reads in book form.

Lately, I have been considering starting a rare books collection. Don't know yet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Whether we like it or not

it is the future of publishing. And thank the lords for GOOGLE books... a few of them rare editions that are only available at oh Harvard, I can access as a historian.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. and that sucks...

I love the smell of bookstores and libraries. Another good thing- batteries don't die in books.