The Nook and Kindle have come down in price. Though I love books, love turning pages, I'm hoping to get a Kindle soon. The Kindle is much lighter than most hard cover books, and I'm tired to carrying heavy books around. The iPad, however, is twice the weight of a Kindle or a Nook. Also, the screen of the iPad is supposedly so good for reading for long periods of time.

I think ebooks are here to stay, but so are paper books.

Randy

I got my wife a Kindle for Christmas this year.  She likes it alot.  I read Superfreakonomics on it and like the idea of it.  I tried to find some of the fly fishing titles that I like to read and reread and was a little disappointed.  First of all, I had low expectations.  Secondly as you might have guessed, there was not a large selection.  I think that if you read best seller type books and can get used to the format, the Kindle is great.  I think that as more books are reprinted, that the selection will increase.  With the Kindle and the Nook you are buying the device and the bookstore, so you had better like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

The ipad is interesting because of the web content.  I am a scientist (Geology), and many science articles are published in PDF format.  I assume that ipad can read those, because my mac computer can.  I like the idea of having my professional library that accessible.  The interface looks like my iphone, which is pretty straight forward.

All I know for sure is this a great time to be literate!

Here's a list of fly fishing books available on Kindle:

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IMHO, I would publish a book traditionally and electronically.

One thing I like about going electronically is that I can make changes after the book is published.

It will be interesting to see just how well ebooks sell in the future. I don't think anyone knows.

At first I was against them, and felt I would never want to read off a small screen, but reading from a Kindle for just a few minutes changed all that.

Randy

The Kindle is still black and white only, right?  You can see the stronger uptake for novels and tehnical books, but seems a real limitation for fly fishing books, many of which are heavily illustrated in color.

Trigg (White)