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vn_nnanji  Title: Outpost Music Expert
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"But I love the smell and feel of books, you know?" |
Although I am not an elitist snob like Yuki, whose books are so intellectual and eclectic that he wears them as a badge of self proclaimed honor, I like having real books. I like having a house full of bookshelves. I have one with all the Robert B Parker, Robert Crais and Dennis Lehane books, as well as the Lee Child Reacher books. I get a kick out of having full collections and a house full of bookshelves.
The ipad is better for traveling though.
As for workarounds so you can share ebooks...I've always found handing a friend a paperback is a much more human and easy process. Is it even legal to reproduce an ebook?
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Eradiani  Title: Moderator/ EvEVault Staff
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Registered: 2002-5-3 02:18:49
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many books aren't available in an e-format though 
I'm sure it will continue to progress towards e-books
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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vn_nnanji posted:
Although I am not an elitist snob like Yuki, whose books are so intellectual and eclectic that he wears them as a badge of self proclaimed honor
It's actually more embarassing than anything else IRL. I get weird looks on BART almost daily. Just having a real book on BART these days is rare enough, much less a book that's clearly at least 70 years old, on a subject no one probably even thought there might be books about.
And I don't think it's particularly elitist. It's just like the old verison of looking random stuff up on wikipedia. Unless being curious about the world is elitist. Which maybe it is I guess.
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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Used bookstores are dying, which makes me very sad. I love used bookstores. I love buying used books, I like the fact that someone before me read the thing, sometimes I'll find some scribbles on the back pages or the book will be signed by someone sending it as a gift. I find the cash receipt occasionally, used as a bookmark maybe(I do that) and I see when the book was originally purchased. Many time it was decades ago, and I imagine who might have bought the book all those years ago and why and how it ended up here.
I find books I loved as a kid in the bargain bins, 2 books for a buck, the covers are a bit tattered and the pages are dry and yellowed, but it's a book I remember reading when I was 11 and haven't seen since....for 50 cents? Hell yeah.
I buy old text books. I'm addicted to them actually. I have hundreds and hundreds of them. Books on electricity and engineering from the 30's and 40's are a particular obsession. I have an electrical engineering handbook written in 1922....it's one of those books you know cost a god damned fortune back in the day, it's packed with tons of info and tables and it's leather bound and on great paper. I paid 3 bucks for it. WTF? I has copious amounts of hand written notes in the margins and whoever owned the thing originally was obsessed with radio.
Ebooks might eventually replace physical books in all cases except for aficionados and special interests....but then again, they might not. Mass market paperbacks are almost surely dying and soon to be a thing of the past, but a quality copy of a cookbook or a technical manual isn't all that easily replaced or the experience of one replicated by an electronic copy.
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reesescups Title: //Captain America
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vn_nnanji posted:
The ipad is better for traveling though.
This is what finally got me... I got tired of taking up space for two book in my carry on and having 2 or 3 in my suitcase.
Now I just have one physical book and my eReader when I travel. Slowly I found myself preferring the eReader at home as well...
And there are ways to get your 'older' no eBooks into eBook formats...
http://www.diybookscanner.org/
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Halloweve  Posts: 422
Registered: 2004-3-6 10:19:02
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Books are the main reason I go to garage sales and second hand stores. I can buy a classic hardback for 25 or 50 cents.
I think I also have over 200 cookbooks now.
It makes me sad how fast the world is changing.
On a good note..I do like saving a tree. So that is a positive, and that is how it should be. That's why I am buying up books now, they will be a thing of the past.
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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Hoarders itt
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cobane Posts: 473
Registered: 2001-9-6 18:42:56
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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.
This is probably the biggest reason why I love the Kindle. I absolutely hate lending books. People have no respect for them. If I give you a paperback in brand new condition and you give it back in dropped-in-the-tub, dog-eared-pages, bent-spine condition, you're a twat. Hell, that's IF you give it back at all. Buy your own books!
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vn_nnanji Title: Outpost Music Expert
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Remind me to break into Cobane's house and pee on all his books.
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I love books, I love sharing books, I love perusing used book stores. I see value in e-ink and other formats of ebooks where the battery life is vacation length. The newer stuff seems no better than an ipad in terms of power usage though, too bad.
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