Quote (pigletopeth @ Apr 30 2012 12:33am)
Yeah, I've been thinking getting a kindle, but then I don't think it would be the same as reading a book. I've tried reading books on a screen in the past and it just didn't have the same texture. It seemed kind of unnatural. You can basically read books for free by going to the library anyway.
I recently acquired a Kindle through a raffle. Then I exchanged it at Best Buy for a Kindle Touch -- I recommend this upgrade. In the store, I checked out both the Touch and the Fire. The Touch uses some sort of electronic ink while the Fire uses backlit like the iPad.
To evaluate how my eyes adapt to the screen, I looked at nearby text on paper; then looked at the screen. I repeated this back and forth a few times. Then I repeated with a different model. To me, the Kindle Touch is much softer to my eyes than the Fire. The Touch reads like an electronic book while the Fire reads like my laptop.
It's very difficult to explain, but reading the Touch feels so very much more like natural book reading than the Fire's. And yet, it looks like old technology. Weird.
Because I'd like to preserve my sight as best I can, I decided the upgrade was the Touch, not the Fire (and not the iPad for that matter).
My final recommendation: go to the store and try it out for yourself. Perhaps the Fire or the cute iPad retina is for you -- not for me, that's for sure. Or perhaps the kindle Touch is for you. That's for you to decide.
Since I began using the Kindle Touch, I downloaded some classic books for free. I also downloaded a 1300 page computer book I've been reading since. I've made quite of bit of annotations in it. I have no complaint so far. In fact, I love it
