You are so right! Are your problems resolved now? Nothing worse than not having a “book” in your back pocket!

So sorry to hear that!

One solution to the e-readers issue is to get one account. I don’t know how it works with Nook or Sony but with Kindle you can have up to five devices on one account.

I bought my husband a Kindle for his birthday last year and now we can share all our books. You aren’t limited to doing this with family members but they do have to be linked to one credit card. So you should probably be really clear about who’s going to pay for what before you set up your devices this way.

Jacob has one of the Sony e-readers and it’s quite amazing. It will not read Amazon downloads unless you can break the DRM, but it will read more textbook formats than the Kindle, and he mainly needs it for texts. It will work for Chapters downloads. It also has Touch capability, so when he went to Boston he downloaded all his maps and MIT info and he was able to touch the map and expand it to the location he wanted. He’s been enjoying reading free classics like Dracula and one of Einstein’s books. Like the Kindle, it has e-paper, which makes it nice to read.

I’m still happy with paper. Goes well with Geritol. But, seriously, one of the problems with these e-readers is that we can’t share the books. Sam and Jacob have different devices and the rest of us don’t have e-readers, so anything that’s in one of their e-readers is lost to the rest of us. With a household full of bookworms, that’s a serious problem.

I now that Kobo does not react like that. Mine was having problems within a year but I could not find original receipt. Their best suggestion “Best Buy sometimes has a good deal on refurbished ones” – no suggestions on how to deal with problem or even any empathy!

Ah, good point. I don’t know how the Nook would play this game. Let me know if you ever find out!!

I was using the “royal you”. (It’s real…don’t look it up, though.) I love my Nook, but I wonder if they’d respond the same way since I can buy books from many sources.

But I don’t think it was just me. Weirdly enough, I had a friend whose Kindle died the very next day and he was offered the same deal, too. Hmm, I’m wondering if they monitor your purchasing level and if it reaches a certain mark, offer the Kindle for free?