Kindle/ipad/tablet or real book
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High Voltage
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Hard back or paper back?
For me it would be Hard back first choice
Then iPad
Then paper back
For me it would be Hard back first choice
Then iPad
Then paper back
Reno
The In Kraut
I really like having books on my iphone, because I can take them where ever I am without taking a bag. My eyesight has been getting poor and I can read them without reading glasses as the lettering is far bigger. When I go on holiday I like a paperback, so I can read in the sun. I've never liked hardbacks, too big and heavy.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Hardbacks and/or trade paperback/standard paperback size is best for history and politics reading I find. Cuts away distractions
SF&Fantasy reading is the lighter stuff so an ereader is fine
however since most of my collection of books is now electronic because you can get them free on the interwebs, I use the netbook. It also doubles as gameboy emulator and I can listen to the radio on it. It slices! it dices!
I was very resistant to the ereader phenomena having been a lifeling commodity fetishist about the printed word. But then I realised you no longer have to pay for books.
So now I am all about the .epub
SF&Fantasy reading is the lighter stuff so an ereader is fine
however since most of my collection of books is now electronic because you can get them free on the interwebs, I use the netbook. It also doubles as gameboy emulator and I can listen to the radio on it. It slices! it dices!
I was very resistant to the ereader phenomena having been a lifeling commodity fetishist about the printed word. But then I realised you no longer have to pay for books.
So now I am all about the .epub
For novels paperback - hardbacks are too unwieldy. For anything else, depends on what sort of book it is: books with a lot of diagrams, maps and illustrations are better in large-folio hardback, but paperback is fine for most others. I do buy quite a lot in hardback, though.
E-readers of all kinds are the spawn of Satan.
E-readers of all kinds are the spawn of Satan.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I usually read the kindle on my Ipad mini - also sometimes use the Kindle Fire, or read the kindle via my phone (useful on packed buses/trains) and I read paperbacks and hardbacks. I still like real books but mrs21 is keen that we buy less books as they are filling up the flat , she has been ruthlessly taking hers to various charity shops and seems to prefer the kindle now (or the kindle app on her Samsung tablet)
can't decide - for convenience - Kindle on my phone - but I like the feel of a book and still enjoy them too.
can't decide - for convenience - Kindle on my phone - but I like the feel of a book and still enjoy them too.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
why are you reading the novel - for what purpose? would you consider lending the book to someone after? the 'why' of the reason and what you'd do with it after can influence your decision on format. for example, if you're reading it for study you may want a print edition you can make pencil notes in. if you're going to read it in the bath you might want a print edition too. if you're reading some trashy airport book you might as well use a kindle.
Artaxerxes
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Whatever is cheapest and easiest, so downloaded books on kindle, or cheap paperbacks.
Kindle is great for saving space though, a lot less hassle to carry around than a book and moving not as much of a pain in the arse
Kindle is great for saving space though, a lot less hassle to carry around than a book and moving not as much of a pain in the arse
zoooo
zero tolerance for walkers
I prefer paperback to hardback. They're a bit too heavy and unwieldy, I like to be able to hold a book in one hand, or indeed not be knocked out if I'm reading in bed and drop it on my face.
I read a lot of gay romance books and I get all of them on my tablet - cos it's immediate and cheap. But all other books I buy paperback.
I read a lot of gay romance books and I get all of them on my tablet - cos it's immediate and cheap. But all other books I buy paperback.
zoooo
zero tolerance for walkers
As in dodgy? That's nice for the authors.
Or do you mean from the library or something...
Maybe he means the thousands of out of copyright books that one can download for free quite legitimately.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'm not having the debate but I have paid hundreds upon hundreds of pounds for books over the years so by my reconing I'm allowed. Anyway, if I like it enough I'll go buy the hardback
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I've never done it , but I think libraries have an app to borrow e-books on?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
got the Oz books from...I think it was Baen Free Library. Oddly darker in tone than the film, more like the sequel with those horrific wheelie creatures.
Tbf they're about the only thing I'd actually want an e-reader for, since I do download quite a lot of out-of-copyright stuff for research (I'm currently working my way through sections of Sir George Head's Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Disticts of England, from 1835
), and reading them on a desktop screen isn't ideal. I usually just print them out and keep hard copy, but space is starting to become a problem...Books doth furnish a room!
Back when I was moving house about once a year they sharp lost their aesthetic appeal. Ebooks are a godsend.
It's true, moving books is no fun. Thankfully I've no intention of moving again if I can possibly avoid it, so won't have to move my 3,000 or so in the foreseeable future.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
we last moved 18 years ago - the book collection has expanded somewhat
and despite Mrs21's efforts at offloading loads to charity shops, we still have a couple of thousand 
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
pshaw that's nothingwe last moved 18 years ago - the book collection has expanded somewhat
we last moved 18 years ago - the book collection has expanded somewhat
Just before I moved back up north I decided to have a slight slim-down and dispose of a few really ephemeral books - the kind of thing you get in a Christmas stocking, along with some crap novels I'd never read again and a few trainspotter books. I took a bagful up to the local hospice charity shop in Greenwich.
'Oh that is kind of you,' smiled the elderly lady behind the counter. 'We always want donations of books.'
She looked rather shocked when I told her I had another dozen bags to bring up later in the day.
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