marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
she has been RUTHLESS!
Kindle/ipad/tablet or real book
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Starry Wisdom
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Love kindle, we've got hundreds if not thousands of paperbacks and hardbacks but I don't buy them any more, I love my kindle and have the app on my iPhone and iPad in case I forget the kindle
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Physical books every time for me. Paperbacks are better for reading in bed, but hardbacks are good and easy to carry around if you've got a decent sized bag.
The only electronic ones I've got are the out of copyright stuff that I've downloaded - although I haven't even looked at most of them do they sit untouched on the hard drive.
E-readers gave a major downside - you can't tell what someone is reading so you can't judge them on their taste.
I think it's safe to assume that everyone who uses e-readers are huge fans of Barbara Cartland and the like, and are too embarrassed to read them in proper book form in public.
The only electronic ones I've got are the out of copyright stuff that I've downloaded - although I haven't even looked at most of them do they sit untouched on the hard drive.
E-readers gave a major downside - you can't tell what someone is reading so you can't judge them on their taste.
I think it's safe to assume that everyone who uses e-readers are huge fans of Barbara Cartland and the like, and are too embarrassed to read them in proper book form in public.
Reno
The In Kraut
Always makes me laugh when I see young men (and it is nearly always them) demonstratively read an important book in public. At work they leave it on their desk for all to see what a big brain they have.Physical books every time for me. Paperbacks are better for reading in bed, but hardbacks are good and easy to carry around if you've got a decent sized bag.
The only electronic ones I've got are the out of copyright stuff that I've downloaded - although I haven't even looked at most of them do they sit untouched on the hard drive.
E-readers gave a major downside - you can't tell what someone is reading so you can't judge them on their taste.
I think it's safe to assume that everyone who uses e-readers are huge fans of Barbara Cartland and the like, and are too embarrassed to read them in proper book form in public.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
Same here,love my kindle,couldn't imagine life without it,great for long journeys or flights.
Zabo
Well-Known Member
Had I been born a few years later (many years you liar!) I may have been seduced by an electronic reader. As it is, I have thousands of books or should I say 'old friends'. I don't mind if it is hardback or paperback. I also know if it falls on to the floor while I am drifting off not much damage will occur. I also don't need to recharge them.
Just finished Victor Pelevin's S.N.U.F.F - A Utopia in hardback. Brilliant!
Just finished Victor Pelevin's S.N.U.F.F - A Utopia in hardback. Brilliant!
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FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Anecdotally there seems to have been a resurgence of the paper book on public transport. A few years ago kindles were everywhere, but now I probably see more people reading books.
More young than older too. My mum's contemporaries, who are often big travellers as well as obviously being older than me, think kindles are the absolute best thing ever, given that they've gone through life with the annoyance of lugging books about on trips. It reminds me of photographers who've gone through the annoyances of shooting film and now rave about digital. Those of us who've almost always had the choice can pick and choose.
More young than older too. My mum's contemporaries, who are often big travellers as well as obviously being older than me, think kindles are the absolute best thing ever, given that they've gone through life with the annoyance of lugging books about on trips. It reminds me of photographers who've gone through the annoyances of shooting film and now rave about digital. Those of us who've almost always had the choice can pick and choose.
Reno
The In Kraut
Had I been born a few years later (many years you liar!) I may have been seduced by an electronic reader. As it is, I have thousands of books or should I say 'old friends'. I don't mind if it is hardback or paperback. I also know if it falls on to the floor while I am drifting off not much damage will occur. I also don't need to recharge them.
Just finished Victor Pelevin's S.N.U.F.F - A Utopia in hardback. Brilliant!
I grew up with real books but I will now always get the digital book where I can. It has little to do with that they are seductive, they are just so much more practical. I understand that people prefer the tactile quality of books. I also understand how books are intellectual capital. We use them to define ourselves by what we read and display that in our homes (and we flash it on the tube). But having become farsighted on top of being nearsighted (nowheresighted really), living in a small flat and being averse to carrying man bags (and being able to have books one my iPhone), digital books are a blessing as far as I'm concerned. I still buy art books, reference books and graphic novels in book form, but novels and non-fiction is digital only now. The content matters to me more than the media.
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Paperback all the way. Although I have started buying hardbacks recently.
Never tried a kindle so can't really comment, but it doesn't really appeal to me tbh
Never tried a kindle so can't really comment, but it doesn't really appeal to me tbh
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I thought that till I tried a kindle, an old model as well. Its thin as hell. The e-ink thing they have means it isn't like reading a screen at all, no square-eye effect.
I don't want one myself because for that money I want internets, film player, runs emulators etc. But I was nearly convinced. Worth having a play with a kindle.
also as mentioned, the other ultimate flaw in the cheap ereader is the bath. No electronics in the bath, it never ends well.
I always try and cop a read when I'm sat next to somebody with a kindle on the commute and can certainly see the advantages, just always preferred paperbacks for some reason.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
I've sold all my paper books bar one or two, every book I read now is through the Google play app on my phone or tablet. Don't miss them at all and appreciate having the free space in the house.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I like books, though I have never tried a kindle, and I like to own the books I have read - though I don't really have the space. I would like one wall of my living room, when I eventually again own a house, to be a large bookshelf to house them. At the moment my space is full!
weltweit
Well-Known Member
There is a service I would like to see my local library institute, that on my taking out two or three books, they tell me if I have already taken one of them out before! I am sure systems wise it could be a simple thing but with one of my favourite authors (Ian Rankin), who writes a lot of books, I once took one home that I had read before and then felt a total plank 
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
I was totally against ereaders till I got one dead cheap and I really like it. Can't see the point of buying an expensive one as my £25 kobo does the job.
renegadechicken
Live and don't learn, that's me.
Cannot remember the last time i picked up a book, all my reading is done on a kindle app somewhere, but i do use my kindle in the bath to read as that's the cheapest to replace if i ever fall asleep and drop it in the water again.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
But what happens if your equipment to read them on breaks, or there is a power cut? No problem if you've got old fangled physical books.
Reno
The In Kraut
This is like an argument made 15 years ago. You don't store e books locally and you certainly don't plug it into the mains while reading for that mythical 24 hour power cut. If you lose your physical book on the tube or in the pub you are far more fucked. If my kindle breaks, I can still read my e book on my iPhone or iPad.But what happens if your equipment to read them on breaks, or there is a power cut? No problem if you've got old fangled physical books.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
If we lose all power in some sort of zombie apocalypse, I will still have some books to re read and trade , my tablet will then be useless of course .But what happens if your equipment to read them on breaks, or there is a power cut? No problem if you've got old fangled physical books.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
But old technology - i.e. printed books - are far more resilient, and short of losing them or setting fire to them, they're always available.This is like an argument made 15 years ago. You don't store e books locally and you certainly don't plug it into the mains while reading for that mythical 24 hour power cut. If you lose your physical book on the tube or in the pub you are far more fucked. If my kindle breaks, I can still read my e book on my iPhone or iPad.
And reading a book on a screen is just depressing - it's not remotely like holding a physical book and turning the pages. And the smell of old books is magical.
Reno
The In Kraut
But old technology - i.e. printed books - are far more resilient, and short of losing them or setting fire to them, they're always available.
And reading a book on a screen is just depressing - it's not remotely like holding a physical book and turning the pages. And the smell of old books is magical.
At the age of 52 I'm not unfamiliar with the sensation of reading real books. The "magic" of reading a paperback gets mythologised by you to a degree I don't relate to and I don't breathe in the aroma of a book while I read it. I find it far more depressing that with my failing eye sight I can't read most paperbacks without reading glasses anymore and that I often found myself wanting to read my book when I didn't bring it. With e books a can change the text size and now I always have my book on my iPhone. Unlike you I don't find anything depressing about reading from a screen, that's simply a matter of attitude, not some universal fact. Again, content matters to me far more than media.
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