[Rumor] I might be getting a Kindle touch for Xmas

[BORTZ]

So i was at my cousin's house and we were looking though the black Friday papers and i saw a special on the Kindle line. Apparently the Kindle is going for $79, but i wanted wifi and touch with no buttons which is only $20 bucks more. I dont want color because then i can't take outside and have no use for a tablet cuz i have an iphone...

So anyways i was looking and i saw the Kindle Touch an said something and i think my grandma started whispering to my mom. Clearly shes no where near as quiet as she thinks she is.

Anyways Im going already have a few books i want to put on it, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter (i never read them) and some Ted DeKker.

Also has anyone used Mangle lately? Its a manga converter for your kindle. Apparently it smooths out the colors and formats it for your reading ease on your kindle as a PNG sequence.

 

[DeathStrudel]

That's cool, but shouldn't this be in the blogs section?

 

[BORTZ]

uh maybe lol
I guess i posted here so people could suggest books to me. No one talks about books here.

Regardless i think maybe youre right lol

 

[DeathStrudel]

What is books?

But seriously, if you like LotR you should read Tolkien's other books, IMO most of them better that LotR but it just gets the most attention.

Edit: some examples of my favorites are: The Hobbit, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Smith of Wootton Major, etc. etc. the list goes on.

 

[Skelletonike]

My favorite collection is The Wheel of Time, if you like lotr you'll prolly like that kind of book, it's a big collection where each book is really big (around 600/800 pages average) and there's 12 or 13 books total. Personally, I consider the writter the best fantasy writter, Robert Jordan (his pen name).

 

[Gahars]

Good luck on the Kindle.

As for books, have you read any by Arthur C. Clarke? If not, you should definitely give him a try; I recently enjoyed 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End.

 

[ShadowNeko003]

I don't believe the Harry Potter series are on any electronic format, so you're out of luck there.

 

[Joe88]

I don't believe the Harry Potter series are on any electronic format, so you're out of luck there.

just download the ebooks...

 

[Haloman800]

What is books?

But seriously, if you like LotR you should read Tolkien's other books, IMO most of them better that LotR but it just gets the most attention.

Edit: some examples of my favorites are: The Hobbit, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Smith of Wootton Major, etc. etc. the list goes on.

I believe LotR are his best works, I enjoyed The Hobbit & Giles of Ham as well. I couldn't get through any of his other material.. The Silmarillion was more like a history textbook than a story, & Smith of Wootton Major started to get really corny halfway through..

​I'd reccomend ​Reading The Hobbit first, if you like it then read LotR, The Hobbit was written before LotR & LotR is actually the sequel to it. The Hobbit is much shorter & if you enjoy it you'll definitely enjoy LotR, & vice versa, if you hate it you won't like LotR.

 

[Haloman800]

Also ​THANK YOU​ so much for mentioning Ted Dekker's name, this HAWT girl from my church was telling me about how much she likes his books, & I forgot his name! I was genuinely interested in his works, I wasn't just pretending to be so she'd like me ;D, but I didn't want to ask his name again, because she'd think that.

By the way, in regards to your question, I used to own a Kindle, (it broke fyi), I used Mangle a few times, it's excellent, it took me a bit to figure it out, it's not hard but I did something wrong at first. I have a Nook now, I hope I can find a similar tool for manga.

 

[relminator]

Ender's Game, Red Mars (also Blue and Green), Hyperion 1 & 2, The Firm, Robots and Empilres, The Foundation series (I suggest you read Robots and Empires before these). Rama Trilogy, I am Legend, Ringworld(1 & 2), The Disposessed. I would also suggest you read "The Hobbit" before LOTR (I enjoyed the hobbit more BTW). There are lots of books to fill your time. Enjoy reading.

 

[BORTZ]

I don't believe the Harry Potter series are on any electronic format, so you're out of luck there.

I have them on my DS in ePub format, im sure i can find something somewhere to get them on my kindle.

Also ​THANK YOU​ so much for mentioning Ted Dekker's name, this HAWT girl from my church was telling me about how much she likes his books, & I forgot his name! I was genuinely interested in his works, I wasn't just pretending to be so she'd like me ;D, but I didn't want to ask his name again, because she'd think that.

By the way, in regards to your question, I used to own a Kindle, (it broke fyi), I used Mangle a few times, it's excellent, it took me a bit to figure it out, it's not hard but I did something wrong at first. I have a Nook now, I hope I can find a similar tool for manga.

Regardless who told you about them, you will forget all about that girl as soon as you being reading Ted Dekker. I never lost sleep over books (for crying out loud they are books) until i found Ted. OMG. I read Black, the Red, then White. After that i think i read Thr3e which messed with my head lol, then Showdown, Saint, and some others... But dear lord hes the best author ive read.

Uh i dont know about a manga converter for nook... i know a simple "kindle manga" google search yielded me tons of results so im sure you can find something.

 

[Gundam Eclipse]

Just thought i would mention that i suggested a couple of manga in your blog version of this thread, in case you didn't know :V

 

[BORTZ]

Oh yeah,i did see those, thanks GundamE. I was going to respond, got distracted and when i came back i found my post here. Oh well.
anyways i did see them and i will check them out.