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GrilledCheez  Title: The Lord's Balls
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Registered: 2006-3-22 11:06:32
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"But I love the smell and feel of books, you know?" |
My wife and son both love reading on ereaders. But I still prefer books. My son is too young and my wife never really loved books the way i do. Sitting or laying down with a book is something I don't think I will lose my love for. We will see I guess.
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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vn_nnanji posted:
And now when you like a book you can no longer hand it to a friend when you are done. They are free, however, to spend $12.99 to get it for themselves.
I know it isn't a full solution, but the Nook allows you to share your books with other people who have a Nook. There is also the (I'm not sure how legal) export to epub route Reeses suggested.
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Tych2 Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
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illmyrin posted:
I hope your library doesn't red flag you as a threat to the state.
 yes Wheel of Time and a few other fantasy books are going to trigger the CIA after you!!
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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"But I love the smell and feel of books, you know?" |
Books where the illustration is the art will survive. And probably cost a bit.
All others, like pulp paperbacks... bye bye.
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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"But I love the smell and feel of books, you know?" |
I will miss books as much as I am already starting to miss newspapers. Yeah, I know newspapers are still around, but the content just plain sucks compared to what it was even five years ago with my local paper (Orlando Sentinel).
Then again, I've been into audiobooks since back when my car had a cassette player so maybe I'm part of the problem.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Ashmaele posted:
I will miss books as much as I am already starting to miss newspapers. Yeah, I know newspapers are still around, but the content just plain sucks compared to what it was even five years ago with my local paper (Orlando Sentinel).
Then again, I've been into audiobooks since back when my car had a cassette player so maybe I'm part of the problem.
I kindof wish that whole e-ink think had taken off. A larger broadsheet view of print and pictures is just a nice interface.
I guess next stop for that will be projected holograms.
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RHWarrior  Posts: 770
Registered: 2009-9-30 18:42:12
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How does the generic e-reader handle illustrations and photographs, especially full-colour??
(Yeah dont tell me you all have colour e-readers cause that's huge BS.)
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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I love my Nook, thought I would hate it as I love books...but I don't. It's awesome! I buy a lot of books on it now.
However, I still buy a lot of physical books as well. I love the way they look sitting on my bookshelves, I also love wandering around bookstores and just browsing books, usually in genres that I don't normally purchase. I enjoy the act of buying books almost as much as I enjoy the book.
For a title I am waiting on and know I'm going to buy, ebooks are hands down the way to go. I pre-order and it's on my Nook the instant it becomes available. That's pretty damn cool.
For books that I'm not waiting on however, bookstores are still where it's at. I take my Nook with me to B&N and I'll grab a couple of books from new authors or on in store online specials that they run as ebooks. However, the bulk of the books I buy on such trips I need to carry out to my car. I'll like the cover, or be intrigued by the blurbs on the back and I'll buy it. I like to hang out in the coffee shop on nice days and I'll talk with other patrons and see what they are getting, and I'll pick up a copy of a book that one of them suggests.
I have piles of books laying all over my house, bookshelves overflowing with them, entire rooms with nothing in them but books. I'll wander thru the house looking at the books and grab something to read that I hadn't thought of in years, or bought years ago and never got around to reading. My house is known as "the library" to all my friends and acquaintances. It's actually become a named home, as everyone refers to it as that. The first time someone comes over they will do a double take then wander around saying "Holy Shit you have a lot of books" or "Read much?". Even my kitchen is crammed with books. I have to move them to allow people to sit down, as books tend to accumulate on every flat surface including chair seats. Invariably talk will turn to some of their favorite books, often wistfully about how they used to love it but haven't read it in years...and I love being able to say "Just a sec" and run off and grab that book and come back and give it to them.
The physical book has capabilities that ebooks lack as well. I will remember where I bought the book, or when I bought it when I pick it up. Brings back memories and connections that an ebook will never be able to do as the memories are linked to the physical object.
So while I'll be buying a lot of books on my Nook in the future, I'll also be buying a lot of physical books as well. Both have their place.
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reesescups Title: //Captain America
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Registered: 2003-5-26 14:45:53
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RHWarrior posted:
How does the generic e-reader handle illustrations and photographs, especially full-colour??
(Yeah dont tell me you all have colour e-readers cause that's huge BS.)
Color nook here - handles them outstandingly!
I really like the way the nook handles magazines - way way way better than traditional magazines.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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If I read a lot of throwaway trash maybe an e-reader would make sense.
I tend to read such esoteric stuff that it a) isn't even available in electronic format and b) reading it in electronic format would destroy the whole fun of it.
My grandparents have a whole room of their house with nothing but books, floor to ceiling. Most of them covered in dust. There is nothing quite like going to that room and prodding through their collection and finding something nobody has read for thirty years on a subject you didn't even know existed.
And then there are gems like their first edition of Dubliners.
Your grandchild is never going to go pouring over your e-reader collection,
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