eReaders

[Sowa]

Does anyone have one? What kind and what do you think about it? I'm thinking of getting one. One reason is my room has poor lighting and only one wall socket (so no room for more lights) I'd really need something that has a light. I've been trying to do some research but it seems tablets are the only ones with lights and people seem to give them bad reviews.

Any info?

[caseysmom]

I have a Kindle and I love it! The case has a light. Hubby recently had to go to the ER and then had a two day hospital stay, I had the foresight to grab my Kindle, they wanted to keep his room dark and I sat in read for hours and hours, would have been pretty bored without it.

You can go to amazon.com and there are tons of free books for the kindle.

[happylabs]

The Kindle is awesome. I love that I can always have something with me to read and if I am done with one I can get online with it and get another book. I take mine everywhere. I am not sure about the no light thing though.

[Sowa]

I have a Kindle and I love it! The case has a light. Hubby recently had to go to the ER and then had a two day hospital stay, I had the foresight to grab my Kindle, they wanted to keep his room dark and I sat in read for hours and hours, would have been pretty bored without it.

You can go to amazon.com and there are tons of free books for the kindle.

Which Kindle do you have? I think I read somewhere they don't come with cases or even the plug, you need to pay extra for them.

[caseysmom]

My daughter received it for a gift and never used it so she let me use it, one of the nurses in the hospital pointed out the light on the case to me, I didn't even know it had one, she said the case I have is pretty pricey.

I think the Kindle fire has a backlight, mine is a basic Kindle.

[pomtzu]

I have the Kindle Touch and I love it. It does not have a backlight, and I have not heard good comments from people with readers that do have one. It seems that the lights produce a very annoying glare on the screen. I simply bought a clip-on LED reading light for around $10, and that solves the issue when I want to read at night without leaving the bedroom light on. There are also many inexpensive covers you can buy for it which is a wise idea - I think mine was about $12. The Kindle comes with a USB cable, so all you do is plug that in to your computer to charge it - and a charge lasts a very long time. I got my Kindle for Christmas, and after the initial full charge which took a few hours, I have only charged it once again, and according to the charge meter reading, it still had a lot of time left on it. And I do quite a bit of reading, since I just finished my 9th book on it yesterday! You don't need to buy a plug for it unless you would want to charge it by plugging into an electrical outlet if you didn't have access to a computer, and it needed to be charged.

[Alysser]

My mom has the Kindle Fire that we bought her for Christmas. She loves it and hasn't complained about the backlight yet.