How many still prefer "real books"

[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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[pkfox]

E-Readers not very good at killing wasps

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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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[Roger Wright]

E-books are a passing fad. They're fine for low-forehead content of the dime novel class, items that one plans to read once - quickly and furtively - then forget. But for real value, for anything technical, and for anything worth reading twice, a real book will never be replaced. They won't go away, as the number of people who pretend to be well read will always far exceed the number who actually are, and such people will be contented with e-books and such. But a home without a bookshelf is a motel room, suitable only for intellectual transients.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Paper beats electrons. Kindle Fire is great for watching Netflix though. I have also found that the Kindle Fire is unviewable with polarized sunglasses when in portrait orientation, so useless for reading outside.

[H Brydon]

Roger Wright wrote:

But a home without a bookshelf is a motel room, suitable only for intellectual transients.

What an awesome quote. I am going to steal it. Repeatedly. Oh yeah, +5 too.

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[H Brydon]

The eBook is a dismal failure for technical books and non-fiction in general. The eBook was designed with novels in mind, where you open a book and start reading after the table of contents (if it exists) and quit just before the index. If you don't follow this paradigm, you will suffer a lot with any eBook. Some eBook devices also have trouble with some other simple things besides text. The kindle for example doesn't do color. Diagrams and images are really second rate, and you can't read text while referring to a chart/image/diagram. You really can't photocopy something of interest in an eBook, and you also can't resell an eBook when you are finished reading it. You can't loan it to a friend. If you and somebody else are reading the same novel on an eBook reader, you can't establish 2 sets of bookmarks or keep your finger on page 23 while reading page 92 (ya ya I know but it sucks). I have a kindle and I hate it. The Barnes and Noble thingies are color but I see that they are all being discontinued. For software development, I use paper books, several PDFs (one or two on the kindle) and Google. There is no replacement for paper books for technical or reference purposes.

-- Harvey

[GenJerDan]

ebooks do not deaden the sounds coming from Mommy and Daddy's bedroom as well as a wall full of real books. Just sayin'.

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[wizardzz]

I only like print books. I've read one ebook and hated it, the experience of reading it, not the book.

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[jschell]

Roger Wright wrote:

E-books are a passing fad.

I doubt that. But it doesn't mean it is a replacement either.