Quotes About E-reader

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a note that said, "In case I forgot anything." I don't like to think I can be bought, but if I could, this guy definitely knew the currency. Roses and books—I could survive in these rooms forever.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.

She'd be thrilled when he'd presented her with a brand-new e-reader - the latest upgrade-along with an entire collection of her favorite books in digital, loaded onto the reader. She'd thrown her arms aroud him and hugged and kissed him so exuberantly that he'd laughed. But then he did that alot around her. Laughed

You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody? Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader. He nodded. Probably safer for your sanity.

I use an e-reader when I'm traveling: I love carrying dozens of books on a small lightweight device, and I'm still amazed every time I purchase and immediately start reading a new title without leaving my hotel room - in another country!

The nurses deem the e-reader to be more sanitary than a paper book.

THAT NIGHT IN BED, A.J. is still talking about the e-reader. "Do you know the real problem with that contraption?

An e-reader! I've wanted one for a really long time." She shoots a quick look over to her father. He nods, though his eyebrow is twitching slightly. "Thanks, Nana." Maya kisses her grandmother on the cheek.

An e-reader allows these cursed creatures to enlarge the text as much as they'd like.

Currently he was going through the entire Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout, He'd just finished Murder by the Book and was in the process of downloading Triple Jeopardy to his e-reader when the alarm went off.

Kindle, ah,' said Baxter, 'takes me back.

I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.

I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

With the e-reader, the whole book was on the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story.

Bezos's Amazon e-reader broke 550 years of precedent by separating the act of publishing from putting ink on paper.

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

he's infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know the percentage of a book he's read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.