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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6170908" data-attributes="member: 221">The Kindle Fire is what I own because it was a gift. It is a good reader and I like it. I can't afford to buy another one and I would rather buy a book anyway.As to the pain in my thumbs, I am not sure why I would have to defend my experience to you, but if I say there is pain, then there is pain. Its not necessarily from the weight but from the posture of the thumbs. Books I can hold differently and I have never had pain from a book. But the weight of the Fire is a little heavier than a paperback. [edit: I suspect part of the advantage of the books is that there is more movement of the thumb in certain directions and they can be stretched easier and more naturally than with a tablet shape and the book stretches with the thumb; but whatever it is, it is a factor]And for checking books out at the library e-format, I looked into it. The publishers require the books to be checked out one at a time; multiple readers cannot all check out the same book in the program being used in these parts. The waiting list is so long that I have never got a single e-book from the library ever actually delivered to me, and I gave up on it. I can order a book from another library and have it delivered to the local library in weeks, rather than waiting 9-12 months (if ever) to read the e-book (actually I have never had an e-book delivered even when signing onto the waiting list because they kicked my name off of the list after so long). That's not the libraries fault and its not the fault of the e-readers, but it is what it is. And again, books are faster for me to read and to use. For some reason it takes me twice as long to read a book on a reader than in paper-form. I am not sure why. And finding a passage I remember is almost always faster with paper. I am happy that you like e-readers better than books. But books are still preferable to me and telling me my reasoning is invalid doesn't really impress me as a winning argument in what is essentially a matter of taste.</blockquote>

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