What is best for books? What would be the best piece of equipment for that?
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Most any MP3 player will work for books. A couple of things you may want to consider --- Where do you plan on downloading your books from? Many libraries have services where you can "check out" downloadable media and listen to books for free. Unfortunately, most of these services DON'T work with Ipods or Zunes. If you plan on using one of these services, check their website for compatibility. I also primarily listen to books on my MP3 player. I had an Ipod Nano (my daughter accidentally lost it!) and it was my favorite. I really miss it and keep trying to convince myself to splurge and buy another. My son has a Creative Zen and it also works well for audiobooks. Some of the lower end, cheaper units are designed primarily for music. With these, it's hard to access a specific track. So, for instance if you're on chapter 20 of a book and accidentally lose your place, then you have to "click" through 20 chapters to get back to where you were. On the better units like the Ipods and the Zen, you can go right to it. (for instance, sometimes I forget to turn the player off when I turn the car off and it's hours ahed of me) If you ever listen to more than one book at a time, make sure it has a bookmark feature. Otherwise you'll lose your place in book 1 when you switch to book 2 and back.
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Sorry, no book rack . . . but you could hang a book bag in there somewhere. Reading aside, it is a good piece of exercise equipment. I use mine 4 or 5 times a week.Kindest regards,Ralph
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Your best choice is the iPad Mini. There are more apps for iPad and you can share the purchased apps with iPhone and iPad. Kindle is mainly for reading books.
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Depends on the book. For textbooks not always. There isn't enough space in the book between the text and the binding so the words on the left get cut off. That or the scanner is slightly too big and wide so the scanner doesn't capture all the text. I would say for most books it's not suitable and you'd be better off with a flat bed book scanner which is much better quality and easier to use but more expensive.
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A small printer would probably be OK. It would have to be small, though, to fit in the space. This bookshelf is surprisingly sturdy, but it does sway from side to side sometimes.
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Yes, but you need to be very careful when you work with it. I used it for all my books.
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Depends on weight and number of books. I use mine for clothes and other light weight things.
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I use mine mostly to read ebooks to be honest, but occasionally i play sudoku or make a shopping list and add a contact. Um... in the eReader format right now I have 43 books on it and maybe 4 or so in the pdf format (eReader files are smaller than adobe)
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Yes, you can read a book on the stand or use an iPad or other tablet without difficulty; the problem comes when you want to set the pillow aside. It won't stay together and I'm fearful of my iPad sliding off. A light weight book shouldn't be a problem.
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It would work with a book that's not too tall or thick. Thge ledge that holds the book in place is rather small and only about 1/4 inch high. A magazine would work well, though.
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Thank you Alan. I will have to try that out. I ended up getting a Nook from B&N.; I was able to go into the store and play around with one which made me feel better about buying it. I know that there are some books on Kindle that I'm going to try and convert.
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Download and run Calibre. This is a free program for both Windows and Linux. it has both a converter to/from mobi and most formats, as well as an uploader to your device. Calibre is a great program that really works both to organise your books and make them work with your device!r00t
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If the magnifier is required, along with the illumination, then it is a reasonable choice. However, if the magnification is not an issue, then perhaps an LED book light would function as well or better.
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I have never used an ereader for those things. You might be better off with a tablet.
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Smaller ones, yes. But a no on bigger books. I find the book rest to be too far away so I use the monitor platform and that may work better.
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I know those books are huge! And I don't know of any bigger book seat but I've made mine work for a 1,000 page dictionary by kind of sitting with it propped up against my knees. Not ideal but still somewhat handsfree.
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That sounds like a lot of books! Mine has held up well but I do not carry that much weight.