How many still prefer "real books"

[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]

super wrote:

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

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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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[Mike Hankey]

I still prefer real books but as time passes am getting into ebooks as the are easier to carry, etc.. The real problem is books are timeless but ebooks and the like are tied to technology, if technology fails they are lost forever.

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