Poll: Paper or Plastic?
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I think a better question is "who here is rich enough to have bought into E-reader technology already?" It's an expensive piece of hardware that isn't absolutely better than a real book -- like everything else, it has pros and cons. The pros do not outweigh the combination of cons and price on these things for most people, at least not yet.
Kindle is no good for manuals! Or any reference book for that matter. If you want to store loads of linear-narrative fiction, fine. But anything like a Haynes manual, where I'm going to be flitting back and forth, Kindle's useless for.
Edit: Plus, paper books smell better (don't tell me you haven't)
Edit: Plus, paper books smell better (don't tell me you haven't)
I am so glad I am not the only person who thinks that books smell good. My friends all swear I am crazy.IndianaJonny said:
In any case, I use both paper books and e-books. I usually buy a paper copy if I think it is a book worth having on the shelf, but otherwise I don't care what way I go.
Basically this.Gaiseric said:
Also, you can lend people individual books when you have a physical copy. It's easier to shove a book at someone than try to convince them to go out of their way to buy or borrow it. Unless you can somehow transfer the books from different kindles, but that would be weird. I guess I already read lots from a computer screen, but I still like books better.
Part of me thinks it's a little wasteful having physical copies of everything, but is technology really more ecologically sustainable than paper books? I'm about to read High Tech Trash (physical copy from the library) so I may be able to answer that question later.
I honestly don't have a preference, I have most of my books from my Kindle on my phone, yet I also have a bunch of books in actual print. The books do smell better though.
For fiction i would consider a kindle, for non fiction and reference manuals and such I would use books, they don't fail, run out of batteries, require a charge to be read and it's easier to find important spots with dog earing pages or sticky tabs, and they can be annotated with a pen between the lines or in margins as needed with supplemental information.
Pah, lightweights. I read books made of sheep skin, bound in the flesh of baby dolphins.
I am now #1 on the PETA hate list.
Although, I do read paper books from time to time.
I've never read from one of those new-fangled electronic book thingies.
I am now #1 on the PETA hate list.
Although, I do read paper books from time to time.
I've never read from one of those new-fangled electronic book thingies.
I buy about five books a week from charity shops. I just love owning them and will be sincerely dissapointed if they were faded out for exclusively digital versions.
p.s. Apologies to all the authors publishers who don't see any oney from the second hand sale of a book. Well not an apology as such as the money goes to charity so fuck you greedy publisher.
p.s. Apologies to all the authors publishers who don't see any oney from the second hand sale of a book. Well not an apology as such as the money goes to charity so fuck you greedy publisher.
You can't beat a book. They just feel right in your hands and smell good. They're also cheaper, just. New books are getting so bloody expensive these days.
And the smell is different depending on the bookshop. Or was that a step too far?DrOswald said:
Totally what I was thinking. Underneath my dad's MG midget trying to figure out what it is that's leaking, flicking through kindle pages would have been an absolute mare. The haynes was bad enough, but at least we could just dry that out on a radiator. Textbooks also suffer this problem.IndianaJonny said:
It's some special E-Ink screen or something, since it's not got a backlight it's only about as hard on the eyes as normal reading.Mr Thin said:
Still wouldn't use one though, but I can see the advantage. My friend has some 300 books at home and he used to only be able to bring the ones he needed for his course up to uni. Now he has them all in his pocket.
I like having a full bookshelf. I like the smell of a new book. E-Readers give me a headache. I like having physical copies of things I buy. Paper for me.
The great thing about an ebook is the storage space. My two bookshelves are at capacity now and the ebook takes up almost no space. It was either that, or get rid of some of my books (that's just not going to happen).
I can't read for extended periods on screens, can't draw on them either. Hard copy books for me all the way.