Reading Device Quotes

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.

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 found the iPad to be too large and heavy to use comfortably in casual situations (like reading in bed, for example), and too limited to use as a replacement for my laptop. By comparison, the Nexus 7 is just the right size for use anywhere - it's very similar in size to my daughter's Kindle Fire, but lighter.

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.