I’ll be using this title “Digital Delivery” to post new eBooks that I have purchased.
I wanted to bring my Digital books up to date so I’m going to start with this, and will only post new books from here on out. So far I have purchased the following books on Kindle and iBooks. I think that for the most part I will continue to purchase most of my books on Kindle. The advantage of being able to read on multiple devices with Kindle makes it a superior eReader over iBooks. For that reason alone I’ll invest most of my dollars on Kindle eBooks. iBooks as is all Apple products are too controlling and not open systems. I can’t run iBooks on an Android devices, or a simple eBook reader. eBook readers are going to cost less, and less as time goes on. I’m already considering buying the new 6″ Kindle with WiFi only just because it only cost $139.00. Reading on the iPad outside is horrible, so the Kindle would be a nice alternative for reading out doors.
Kindle allows you to sample books, typically the first chapter. You’ll see some of the books that are listed as Samples, those are books I’m planning to buy soon.
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You are quite the “techy” 😉 .
I really enjoyed Carson’s Exegetical Fallicies and Osbourne’s Hermeneutical Spiral.
Some good Kindle buys. The Fee book and the Barr book are to of my favorite books. But the Hurtado, Carson, and Osborne books are alos great. I was a little let down by Thiselton though.
I can’t believe how closed Apple keeps their ebooks. I would buy iBooks if they had an app outside of the iPad/iPhone for them. I think eventually they’ll come out with one but for now they want to give an incentive for purchasing an iPad/iPhone. It’s sort of like how in the beginning, only iPods could play songs bought from iTunes but eventually they opened it up. Personally I prefer pdfs over the other ebook formats. If I have to choose though I would go with ePub over Kindle’s format.
I think I need to get a kindle… problem is they are a lot dearer here in Australia.
I do however like the feel of paper…
The other issue in Australia is we don’t have the freedom of book availability that you do in the States.
I really enjoy reading on the iPad, but I also enjoy reading printed books. Also lots of books are still not available in digital format. The only thing that concerns me is long term readability of these digital books. What is the file format going to be 10 years from now? Will the new devices be backward compatible? Otherwise I’ll have hundreds of books that may not be readable on newer devices.
But I’m content for now and it works.
I’ll start buying digital books when they come with a digital pen that lets you write in the digital margins!
You can sort of do that now, at least with the iPad Kindle, and iBooks. You can add notes on the margin by highlight a word or section.
Great, now my finances are screwed!
Brian,
That’s why I like PDFs. I write on them, in the margins with my stylus on my tablet netbook. Mostly I just draw stars. For actual extended comments I put a text box next to the page and type away. It works well.
I think my wife would like it is I converted to digital books. She hates the “clutter” of my current library in the living room.
Bryan, GoodReader just released an update where I can do all of that and more with PDF’s, even copy/paste! It only cost .99 cents. I actually would prefer to buy my books that way, but I don’t know where to purchase them? Where can I go to buy Christian theology/biblical PDF’s books the kind we all like to read?
There are pros and cons to both, but I’m afraid we won’t have a choice soon. All publishers will be going digital in the next 5 years. Talk to your local Christian book store owner, they will give a sad update. My guess is that you will pay a high premium for printed copyies at some point. I’m still planning on buying a high quality NIV 2011 when it comes out because I don’t know for how long nice bibles will continue to be printed.
Robert,
You sound like a Doomsday prophet for paper books! The Bookpocalypse is upon us!
Brian, sorry I forgot to prefix it with “Thus saith…”
Robert,
Goodreader is a great app. Before I switched over to a tablet netbook I used Goodreader to read pdfs on my iphone. It makes the iPad a lot more attractive since the iphone screen is too small to read a pdf on. However since I already have a tablet netbook and Acrobat it’s not enough to switch me over.
There’s not too many places right now. Ebooks.com and Booksamillion are both good. You can get a lot of Cambridge books for cheap on Booksamillion. You can also convert ePub to pdf if you have the right tools and are willing to spend the time. There are a lot more ebooks available in ePub instead of pdf, of course. Inkmesh is a good site for searching for available ebooks to buy.