How many still prefer "real books"

Bassam Abdul Baki

Paper all the way. Every intellectual should have a library to flaunt. Can't do that with an eReader.

Lost User

My daughter has hundreds of books, gets more almost weekly, and 5 a month from the library too. The kindle is strictly mine. All my old books are in the loft, and there are plenty of them, just don't have room for a bookcase.

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Lost User

Ebooks are nice when you want to hit ctrl-f and find something. What, there's an index in the back of the book? Too slow!

Tim Carmichael

Generally speaking, it is paper books only. I also print PDF manuals to be able to thumb through, highlight sections, write notes, etc. There are one exception, though, I do have the Bible on both my phone and tablet. I will always have one of them handy, but not necessarily the printed version. Tim

dusty_dex

I've tried ebooks/pdf viewers. But it's just not for me. X|

glennPattonWork3

I am battling using a the Kindle App on a tablet & phone, fan of portability & relative damp proofness, but for searching I prefer dead wood :) For circuit diagrams they are useless...

ZurdoDev

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How many still prefer "real books"

As opposed to chocolate books? Note: This needs to be read in a Chris Rock voice. This is a Madagascar 2 reference. Great movie. :) I certainly don't think ebooks are a passing phase but I agree, I enjoy paper more.

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Maximilien

I've turned to the e-dark side a couple of years ago; best move I ever did. the kindle is not a perfect gadget, but it is damn close for simple fiction/novel/non-fiction reading. I cleaned up the appartement and recycled more than 20 boxes of books. BUT i kept a few dead-tree books, mostly kitchen/recipe and coffee table books; and I still buy magazines.

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LloydA111

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She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks.

I find this is generally the attitude that people who follow fads seem to have at the minute.

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vonb

I still read paper books. Also technical manuels, where I can quickly find the solutions to some problems. And of course good crime stories are much better on paper, I don't know why. On the other side, for coding problems, I don't use ebooks but sites like CP and MSDN, just so easy to copy / paste the samples.

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Nemanja Trifunovic

Not me. Reading paper books is fine, but storing them is painful. Besides, there are many excellent e-books that can be purchased for pennies.

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S Houghtelin

Depends on the material, for just plain reading, I like books. I can put them on my shelf for later. If yahoo, google, kindle or whoever decide they want to take my books back, at least then, I have a chance of giving them a good whack upside the head before they get their hands on them. For technical material a searchable e-book can't be beat. I only need to read the relevant material and if need be I can copy paste the subject or code that I am interested in. There are many good sites out there where you can download good books for free such as http://it-ebooks.info/[^].

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Chris Losinger

wife insists i get a Kindle. i prefer paper.

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Richard Deeming

Dead trees all the way for me. At least with a proper book, the publisher can't break into your house and take back your copy for licensing reasons. They also can't stop you from lending/giving the book to someone else.

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Bassam Abdul Baki

vonb wrote:

I still read paper books. Also technical manuels

emanuel is always a better read.

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Simon Lee Shugar

I cannot remember the last time I bought a physical book. I use google books now, but could easily as venture forth to the world of kindle. I like the fact that I carry my entire and soon to become vast collection of books around with me on any mobile or web enabled device! Which is pretty cool. I do miss the smell of a new book though.

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Brisingr Aerowing

I like real books, but I also have a few hundred PDF eBooks of many technical books. I use Foxit Reader to view them, and that allows me to take notes on them.

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vonb

For apple fans: iManuels??? ;)

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Chris C B

I like ebooks simply because of the size of the library I can carry with me. However, it will be a long time before they replace paper![^]

Dan Neely

I prefer reading paperbacks, and generally end up buying one for anything I want to read again once it's available; but ebooks have saved me both tons of money in not having to buy hard covers and in space since MMPBs are much more compact and I don't need any shelf space for read once titles. Print (or PDF I suppose X| ) is still a necessity for anything where the content can't be arbitrarily reformatted for a small ereader screen; or where I need to be able to refer to maps in the front/back of a book or to end notes. Unfortunately this means that most of my non-fic reading is still in print despite them being books I rarely reread.

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