Comments on: Moleskine notebooks for Kindles

By: JustGail

JustGail — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:23:13 +0000

Nice cover, and I’m glad that it’s also usable for us lefties. Now for a question on e-readers – what happens when you want to make a note in the book? Yes, I often write in my books (sewing/craft/cook books mostly), can you make notes in the e-books? I’ve waffled on getting one, but between the making notes issue and not knowing how many of the types of books are available (again sewing/craft/needlework/gardening/cookbooks), I’m hesitant. And Luke – how long does it take you to scan a book?

By: Sooz

Sooz — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:58:28 +0000

I don’t own a Kindle, but am using the FREE Kindle app for my PC. (It doesn’t have the portability of a Kindle, but I usually am reading at home and it doesn’t matter to me if I am reading at my computer or in another room – I’m sitting down anyway! And the computer app lets me set the type and width of the page to very comfortable settings.)

But I also own many beautiful books – thick glossy art books that were produced in conjunction with major museum exhibits, and books on 19th century photography – which I’d NEVER want to “read” on a Kindle (nor on an ipad) even if they were made available that way.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:03:51 +0000

Just wanted to add that we use the library a lot and just recently we checked out two cookbooks (one for me, one for my son) that we knew, after using them, we’d want to own. The library is awesome for that. but these books would have been diminished on a small Kindle screen; one is the Redwall Cookbook and has gorgeous illustrations, the other is a huge, wide format.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:02:39 +0000

Thanks for the responses. I think you all are right, that a Kindle would be great for those paperbacks (Agatha Christie, anyone?) that I like to buy to read on the plane. But I love hardcover editions of classics, or books that mean something to me. And cookbooks just wouldn’t be the same on a Kindle, I don’t think–i’d be afraid to take it into the kitchen!

By: OogieM

OogieM — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:15:52 +0000

I have a kindle first generation and also lots of books. I buy one time reads and references on the kindle, books with pictures or in color and things not available on the kindle as paper books. Libraries are nice if you have a good one, unfortunately ours does not have most of the books I want and ILL often costs more than buying the book itself from Amazon!

Sadly the moleskin case shown only works with the newer kindles not mine.

By: Shang Lee

Shang Lee — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:33:20 +0000

ipad version coming out soon?

By: Meredith

Meredith — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:43:29 +0000

I didn’t actually want a Kindle much until I read about this product. Seriously, it connected the dots for me in some strange way.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:35:47 +0000

Hmmmm…using the library reduced the book clutter in my home and is much less expensive!

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:11:45 +0000

I love this! Makes me want a Kindle even more

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:41:15 +0000

Karen, I would like to share my personal experience with physical vs. digital books.

Whenever I want to read a new book, I try to buy the digital version or borrow the physical version from the library. That way I don’t add to my overgrown physical book collection.

However, I still own about 200 physical books — art books, how-to-draw books, graphic novels, and books from tiny publishers. Most of these are not yet available in a digital format.

I love my Sony Reader, but it has not completely replaced physical books for me just yet.

By: leonie

leonie — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:26:45 +0000

just checked amazon. Wow! $189 for the kindle now! I paid about $230 in Feb. Had some type of reward credit I could use so it brought it down.

By: leonie

leonie — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:25:05 +0000

I still buy and keep books.

It took me a while to get a kindle. I finally did, for my son who reads voraciously. It doesn’t work as well for me as I read some technical books, and even for non technical books in my field, I like having it in hand. However, for many classics (free now on kindle and any e-book I think), it’s nice to have on long plane rides and vacations.

I bought a simple cover with a zip for the kindle. It was one of the higher recommendations on Amazon.

I agree with Kamakazi that it cuts down on buying paperback thrillers etc. but the library remains my main source for books I don’t want to keep.

During the summer, I work with my kids on various subjects and order workbooks from Amazon (ie Latin, Spelling, Math). Kindle can’t replace that yet…
Was just in B&N and their nook is now $199.

Be interesting to see what happens to kindle prices. Also saw consumer report that Kindle is still top ranked e-reader.

By: Kamakazi

Kamakazi — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:58:26 +0000

Karen-I know quite a few people who have both. After talking to them (I have been considering a Kindle for quite some time) what they say is that they still buy books but instead of buying every book they want to read in physical form they only buy the books they know they want to actually have. What this has lead to is them having lesser physical books but the ones they have are mostly nice, displayable hard covers. What they have cut out is buying the crappy paperbacks that they would probably just end up storing at the back of the bookcase or in a box.

That is probably what I would do, as I said before on this blog, even if I got a Kindle you can rip my awesome Tolkien hardcovers from my dead lifeless fingers, and even then good luck…wow I just realized I used a million commas in that sentence, my grammar teacher from back in the day would think she failed me.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:52:56 +0000

Does anyone here use a Kindle AND keep their books? My husband has been pushing the idea of a Kindle for me, pointing out that there are cookbooks for Kindle, that I could get some currently out of print–but available on Kindle–books to read. And they’re cheaper. He’s also pointed out that when we travel I could use the Kindle to ‘transport’ more books than I could pack in my bag, because we like to travel light.

But I adore having books in the house. I love taking the kids to the library and seeing them get excited about choosing books. There is something about the tactile feel of a book that I don’t wish to see replaced by a computer device.

By: Ed Eubanks

Ed Eubanks — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:46:12 +0000

For those who “wish the notepad had been on the other side”:

This style of notepad (“reporter” style, as the title states) is the kind that flips up over the top, rather than left- or right-bound. The case is designed to open all the way back onto itself (so that the notepad is the only thing exposed) and then there’s no disorientation for right- or lefthanded people.

See this image from the Moleskine website for an example of a righty using it.