How many still prefer "real books"
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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.
Will Rogers never met me.
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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.
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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.
Will Rogers never met me.
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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This week we were remodelling (design) our living room and I suggested my Mrs to leave some space for my fuure books. She said that I should stop buying the paperbacks and move faster to ebooks. But to be honest. I am not able to enjoy reading in ebook reader.. I missing the pleasure of turning 30 - 40 pages back to refer what that paricular character said or saw etc.. Also technical books in kindle is little awkward in taking notes.. Still is it just a passing phase.. Did you guys got comfortable after repeated use?
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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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.
Will Rogers never met me.
