K is for Kindle

Since moving to Florida, I’ve gone through three Nooks. The first? The Nook Tablet? I got it because I have a serious blog habit.

Don’t believe me? See the previous post.

I read a crap load of blogs and blogging. It made sense to have something that could read digital copy AND have access to the interwebs.

And I read, alot. It’s weird. And since we were massively downsizing, I had to get rid of some of the best paperbacks I’d ever read. Let’s be real, however. Also, you have to understand I still read, like, seven or eight books....at a time.

I’d not read them forever.

I was moving across America, for goodness’ sakes! I thought about the ease of just a Nook reader or a Kindle. But the Kindle, at the time, didn’t have the access I liked. And I noticed, through my research, that some books were available on Nook in their format; some were over on Amazon. Then? They had specific apps available, but I’m thinking the folks at Barnes and Nobles had a hard time upgrading them. Tech wasn’t their field. So? After so many failures of upgrades and falling behind on some of my blogs, I went ahead and upgraded, giving my brother the old toy. I had a Nook HD and it worked great! But the same problem arose. Barnes and Nobles just went ahead and spoke with the folks over at Samsung and asked to just make a dedicated tablet with Nook readily installed. That’s my toy now. I use it 3 or four times a day. I’m reading my latest book on it.

In fact, was lying in bed and reading it last night when seven different warnings flagged me down. Memory was out.

Da faq?

So? Hours later, I’d moved everything to the card. Still no upgrading of all the apps.

I have a digital paperweight. With terrific access to the interwebs.

I think my time with Nook is dead.

Time to look elsewhere. My problem? I’ve saved SO much to the Nook over the years. Whatever I do, I have to make sure I have a Nook app that allows me access to those texts, if at all. Luckily, I have Comixology, so I have available to me for my comic books; I still have saved most of the good Dungeons and Dragons texts, so there’s that too.

But my magazines! My MAGZ! I’m totally into my weekly magazines of Time and Entertainment Weekly. And there’s my Rolling Stone! All of which are on the Nook.

Decisions have to be made.

A Kindle Fire is basically cheap, in terms of price. And it’s still around, a leader for such things.

But you can’t add the Nook onto the Kindle Fire, it seems. Oh sure, there’s a freegin’ gazillion sites on how to hack it and “backdoor” the Nook app. I’m guessing it’s a competitor so they don’t want you to turn to them.

I shan’t forget the iPad. The glorious iPad. We bought our first one back in 2010, a gift for my husband. Of course, he refused to use it, it was too extravagant, so it gained dust for a quite some time. Eventually, he put some games on it and then they had wifi at this work, so he could watch Netflix. So he started to like it. So much so, he went out and replaced it immediately, with the smaller iPad mini. I’m there as well. And it’s truly tempting. I LIVE with my iPod. I get my news that way, via podcasts. And there’s some music there, but, moreso, I can use my radio apps, thank you Sirius XM, and listen to clear music.

Maybe it’s time to switch.

But that cheap Kindle is tempting. Reviews are strong, but they also own the website where the reviews are going up. I guess I didn’t see if the Sirius XM app is on that as well. Hmmm, that’s something to think about. Wait. The Nook.

And there.

Did you see that?

This is a glorious argument in my noggin. I’m actually debating the importance of HOW TO READ BETTER. This says volumes. This should illustrate the importance of reading and writing in my wee existence, right there.

And my beloved connection to technology.