My NOOK and KINDLE ebook Charger Is Finished And Working

Yes there are a lot of provisos that warp my priorities. One, is isolation. Just about everything I own is "hard to get*" down here from size 13 shoes to XX long clothing. Car has one of the hardest to find group sizes (outside of the weird European Mercedes BMW clique). Lifeline battery is impossible to find. Try finding 195x70x14" tires is another job.

The book industry outside of comic books in rural areas is non existent. Television is heavy on Soap Operas at all hours. And I cannot stand USA TV so that leaves books. Ever curl up with a cozy laptop in bed? When a person nods, and it hits the tile floor, the bloom comes off the rose. Or it lays flat and imitates a toaster oven. I tried a Kindle Fire. Two weeks before it played possum, was like grappling with a pane of glass and it had the staying endurance of a world class ADHD six year old.

Mr. Wizard sums it up pretty well. The genuine ereaders are difficult at best to change batteries in. The Nook is sealed water-tight. Mexico will seize forever any lithium batteries. UPS, or DHL it does not matter. Someone mentioned buying a Nook in Mexico and having it shipped. Having a Nook shipped incurs a thirty dollar package fee from the only shipper, ESTAFETA. Then I have to drive eighty miles to go get it. Check the Nook price difference between the USA and Mexico.

Taking the path of least resistance, managing the vulnerable battery is the most viable option. And these ebook manufacturers somehow manage to overlook the discharge rate of the battery when the optional book backlight is on. Somehow, some way that BAATTERY CHARGE LAST WEEKS! Translates to eight days of reading and four days, if the battery is not discharged to less than 50% capacity.

Might as well air-it-out.

With NOOK. Many book series run (available volumes Barnes & Noble server) 1,2,4,6,7 The missing volumes are not available. Neat huh? Buy the volumes on Kindle.

WAIT! This gets better

Nook Book $14.95
Identical on Kindle $8.95
Kindle Book $19.95
Nook book $7.95

Same day shopping

It doesn't take THAT many books to buy the "competition" eBook. Again neat huh?

I do not remember at what age I started to despise Chew & Spit consumerism. Perhaps grade school. Frequent vacuum tube replacements disgusted me. Then solid state electronics came along and listening to the difference between my Macintosh and the new breed "Dehydrated Transistor Sound" derailed stereos and vacuum tubes from my objections.

I remember with a curled upper lip, a Sunbeam Tiger, Firestone F100 radial tires and getting 7,000 miles out of the tire. Firestone said it was a sports car I therefore must drive it like a maniac. Without touching anything I switched to Michelin X radials and got 40,000 + miles. This is why I kick myself about those Wal-Mart rags - I KNEW better...

But reading, to me is a vital past time. At least three to four hours a day. I have gone through 346 volumes in my Nook archives alone. It may well be I have digested 10,000+ books in my lifetime. A few, like Bob Woodward's VEIL, were 10 hour a day marathons.

My laptop desktop is not filled with XXX rated icons. Try links to white papers, solid state component data sheets and circuit diagram shortcuts. Complete Jameco, and Digikey catalogs. et al.

I do have the computer Nook and Kindle downloads just in case.

But ho-hum lithium batteries like the laptop and Samsung Galaxy are close your eyes and slide and change. The ereader batteries are not. I have a limited time left before my own use-by date, expires. Hopefully, I will not have to suffer the loss of a really comfortable to use in bed ereader. Paperbacks in English down here tend to be old, have holes drilled through pages by worms and lean heavily toward the type where the cover sports a stud with a stomach rippled like an imitation potato chip. Perfect for 300 lb bon-bon eaters glued to the sofa.

My idea of GREEN is to consume far less, get the same amount of product (which includes service life), while keeping the inside of my wallet greener.

I do it the easy way.

I read all of my books aloud and record them on a Sony minidisc recorder.

I edit my speech with the minidisc, since there is nothing better to edit audio recordings on without using a computer.

Once I get my minidisc recordings edited exactly perfect, I dub them to 8-track tapes since minidiscs are re-recordable and are getting expensive.

Since my '79 Itasca has a factory 8-track player in the dash, I can listen to my own audiobook performances as I drive all across the country. And, I only have to change a tape out every 80 or so minutes.

The 8-track analog thickness adds a warmth to my voice that can be comforting on long drives. The tape hiss helps drown out the exhaust manifold leaks on that old 454.

As a bonus, I can even hit the fast-forward button on the 8-track player and listen to my own voice at a speed just a hair faster than normal playback if I really want to get to the good parts of the book before the next gas stop.

I've got some 5 1/2 floppies if you need some if those to store ebooks on ??

Wow, that sure is a long time to charge a Kindle to full capacity. A couple hours is usually what it takes for my DX and Peggy's Paperwhite takes a little longer. Or did that also include the Nook?

{a} portability

{b} power use, erader uses less power and runs longer on battery than Laptop

i suggested Android Tablet, cost less does more
BUT it does Not compete on power use
better than a laptop, not as efficient as an eReader

Wow, a Nook and Kindle??? Talk about a blast from the past...

Why not just store all your e-books on several Iomega Jaz or Zip drives? Then you can call them up on your Compaq Presario and view them at will without messing with those pesky lithium batteries.