If you could "buy" anything from the itunes store...
#1
If you could "buy" anything from the itunes store...
I find myself with a $50 gift card to spend and... buyer's stage fright!
I've looked at tons of things for my iPad, knowing that I use it mainly for quilting things - looking for surface design, reading quilting magazines, carrying patterns with me to sewing groups - and listening to music, I've looked at apps (but so few have reviews) and eBooks (I really think I like the look of a physical book better - they're beautifully laid out, the ebooks are... utilitarian) and I just can't decide.
For an example, look here: Angela Walter's Shape by Shape
http://www.amazon.com/Shape-Free-Mot...sap_bc?ie=UTF8
If you click on the "Look inside" and page through it as an ebook, then page through it as a physical copy there's just no comparison. Maybe I'm just becoming that visual but I really like the physical one better...
So, if you could buy virtually anything in the iTunes store, what would you choose?
I've looked at tons of things for my iPad, knowing that I use it mainly for quilting things - looking for surface design, reading quilting magazines, carrying patterns with me to sewing groups - and listening to music, I've looked at apps (but so few have reviews) and eBooks (I really think I like the look of a physical book better - they're beautifully laid out, the ebooks are... utilitarian) and I just can't decide.
For an example, look here: Angela Walter's Shape by Shape
http://www.amazon.com/Shape-Free-Mot...sap_bc?ie=UTF8
If you click on the "Look inside" and page through it as an ebook, then page through it as a physical copy there's just no comparison. Maybe I'm just becoming that visual but I really like the physical one better...
#2
If you have a gift card you don't care for as much maybe trade it for another gift card with some one else. Also regifting it might be an option. Sorry I am of no big help but I much prefer the hard copy books also.
#5
I suspect that's what I'm going to end up doing. Of course I'm also drawing a blank on what music I've wanted in the recent past! Maybe I should just lay down until the indecision passes then try again.
#6
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My mother in law was very reluctant to buy books from iTunes- or get a kindle.... Insisted she only wanted ( hard copies). Then she received an iPad for Christmas, with a couple books already added. She Loves It! Now she always requests and gets excited to receive those gift cards.
I use an android tablet with my kindle app and have found I love having quilting books on it.some I have in hard copy too, some digitals are enough. I can quickly look something up when shopping, the graphics are wonderful, I can zoom in on areas I can not do that with the book... For me it has opened lots of new doors. And, there are tons of book offerings besides quilt books.
I use an android tablet with my kindle app and have found I love having quilting books on it.some I have in hard copy too, some digitals are enough. I can quickly look something up when shopping, the graphics are wonderful, I can zoom in on areas I can not do that with the book... For me it has opened lots of new doors. And, there are tons of book offerings besides quilt books.
#8
ckcowl, I decided a while ago - as far as recreational reading - that I didn't want hard copies anymore. I read too much and books tend to spring out of my hands when I'm laying down reading and hit me in the face when I fall asleep. I've been reading on an eReader for probably 5 years now - just this summer I bought a Kindle Paperwhite, before that it's always been epub based readers. Quilting books though, I don't seem to be able to make the transition. My studio is the only room in the house with physical books that regularly get cracked open.
Maybe I'll take the plunge though on the couple of quilting books and see what I think. If this card didn't cost me anything, at least I can buy the hard copies later and not feel too badly about it.
RN-Quilter - I listen to a lot of audible books and audiobooks I get from the library, but I feel like if I want to "buy it", I want something I'll listen to more than once. So I suppose that rules out most recreational "reading" but perhaps some of the motivational speakers would be good for me.
Maybe I'll take the plunge though on the couple of quilting books and see what I think. If this card didn't cost me anything, at least I can buy the hard copies later and not feel too badly about it.
RN-Quilter - I listen to a lot of audible books and audiobooks I get from the library, but I feel like if I want to "buy it", I want something I'll listen to more than once. So I suppose that rules out most recreational "reading" but perhaps some of the motivational speakers would be good for me.
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