Yeh, we have inter-library lending but get charged 50p per book! I do it though, cos it saves me having to haul my arse round the borough for books I want to read. I've started just entering titles onto the online system to see if they've got them now, instead of showing my arse in the library when they haven't got what I want.
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I only LIKE books. I don't like reading electronically. I do that all day on the laptop.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
The Marcus Garvey charges 50p if you reserve the books on-line but they don't advertise the fact that it is free if you request them in person at the counter.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I said that one time. I like reading anywhere now. Whatever is most convenient.
And a book is still a book to me whether it is in print or electronic form.
Ahhh - that might well be the case here then too! Hmmm. Ta for that! I can just check if they've got them online, and then order in person, if they do the same thing here!
Nah. Like I said, I spend 8 hours a day pretty much reading from a screen, working etc, and I find actual pages, books, to be much more soothing.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
compared to what it costs them, thats bloody cheap. iirr, it was nearly £4 a book when I did my library course, which was nearly twenty years ago
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Me too. I love paper books. But refusing one format just cos you are used to another is cutting off your nose to spite your face, especially if you are as greedy for books as I am.
Nah, I wouldn't do that, cutting off nose etc, it's just my eyes, my head - they prefer pages. I know you're only thinking of a fellow reader but honestly, I'll stick with books
Well, there were about 3 or 4 times more the amount of fucking books in each library back then! Seriously, the stock is down to worryingly low levels now.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nah, I wouldn't do that, cutting off nose etc, it's just my eyes, my head - they prefer pages. I know you're only thinking of a fellow reader but honestly, I'll stick with books
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's like trying to get farmerbarleymow to try a new food
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
oh dear.
so to you a first edition of hobbes' leviathan and the e-book on amazon are equivalent?
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Agreed but half the library is now a frigging creche & although I am grateful that the library is open for four hours on a Sunday, I wish the room next door was not used by God's worst gospel singers and hallelujah hollowers.
They do sell off their excess stock for 40p a book or four for a quid. I have to keep an eye on what they are selling because it is often a book in the series that I am reading & they sometimes sell book three of five but not the others.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
there's the thing. say you've a book on your kindle you would like farmerbarleymow to try, you can't lend it him so easily.
Hehe 
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
True enough. Paper books have their advantages and so do digital books.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It depends what you value, the object or the text. You can't get the former out of a library. You are unlikely to even read it. It is more of an artifact than a book.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what iyo are the advantages of digital books?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
for me - they're often physically more readable - smaller, lighter, with more variable lighting and typesize available; I can carry lot's of books with me at once, in-built dictionary, lack of embarrassment factor is I'm reading something shitty.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Convenience, mainly. Don't need a bag when I go out and can have loads of them at my fingertips.
Readability too, but that's more to do with what you're accustomed too.
I absolutely love the built in dictionary (sometimes spend an hour just browsing that after looking up one word).
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I love my Kindle. Still love books, probably read half and half now, but if its a big book I'll always download the Kindle version now, if it doesn't fit in my coat pocket it doesn't make it on my commute. The amount of books and the dictionary make a difference too. Want a Kindle white now though to replace my old one with no light and no touch screen.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
scheming on a nook here, they've come right down in price
currently finishing 'Brasyl' which is v.good .
currently finishing 'Brasyl' which is v.good .
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I think I'm going to make a start on Donna Tartt's The Goldfish today.
And here's where reading ebooks gives you an advantage.
In paper form,it's a huge 1000+ page hardback!
And here's where reading ebooks gives you an advantage.
In paper form,it's a huge 1000+ page hardback!
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
love my Kindle too, I reckon since buying it I've read the equivalent of a bookshelf
Wow. That was moody. Want to read The Grapes of Wrath next but need a break from Steinbeck.
East of Acre Lane - Alex Wheatle.
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