hehe.. 23 to 0! and who had any doubts? Wanted to add my voice to everyone's, but the poll is closed for some reason...
hehe.. 23 to 0! and who had any doubts? Wanted to add my voice to everyone's, but the poll is closed for some reason...
One more thing, I'm using lenses so I can't glare PC screen too long...;)
Who could stand reading a whole book from the screen????? Never in a million yers!
I just finished reading a play on the computer, but besides that, only books
I'm also 'old-fashioned' ;) and prefer reading on paper. I can't concentrate for a long time while reading on a screen and my eyes don't like it. I have some e-book readers on my computer, because I thought it would be handsome, especialle while I'm interested in classics, which can be found for free on the internet. But I never use them, because reading behind my computer isn't as much fun as a good book at the couch.
There are some pro's for a palmtop to take books with you easily, but I think it just doesn't feel like a book. It's some kind of weird, only reading from a palmtop. Maybe that's the point, it doesn't give you the feeling of reading a book.
Prefer paper though I don't have a problem with reading online either.
It's got to be from a book! I like to take it everywhere with me because I literally read everywhere! Plus it's more personal in a book then on the computer. :S i don't know how that works but you know!!
When I type papers I do it on a computer, when I check e-mail or chat online it is with a computer, I play games on my computer; but a book... A book is something completely other, it takes you where no other medium can. I guess I can't fully explain, you all seem to be saying part of what I am thinking, that a bool is textile and thus more comfortable; that you can take a book palces computers (and those little e-books) should never go; you can doodle and take notes in the margines. Everything about books is apealing to me: the way the read, the way they age, the way each and every book has it's own unique feel... I don't know what else to say except that if books go the way of the dodo, there had better be something amazing to come and take thier place.
My opinion is the same as everybody on this matter. What's good about reading from a screen, though, is my Babylon translator. No need to open that big ol' Oxford everytime a word impedes you. But still, I never read books through a screen (from obvious and already-stated reasons).
While my computer does many things for me (message boards and reviews, particularly), one thing it does not do is provide me serious literature or a means for creative writing. I can't write either poetry or fiction on a computer- it has to come out of my hand through a writing utensil and onto a paper.
It just... doesn't feel creative otherwise.
I generally do a lot of my reading on the computer screen and I quite frankly find the 'search' feature to be very convenient, especially when reading books of multi-layered levels of complexity where a handful of characters are thrown into the fray.
Still, there is unquestionably a marked difference between reading on a screen versus paper and being a computer science major, I'm currently writing a program to try and simulate the 'look and feel' of reading a physical book via rendering a e-book in a three-dimensional OpenGL environment.
Hey,u all people commment whether u get more engrossed in reading a paper-book or compact book with celluloid papers????
As far as I am concerned,I hate ebooks..But due to the cost-ineffectiveness I generally go for an E-BOOK!!!!
So what u people prefer???
I get more engrossed reading a paper-book because I can take it with me anywhere and don't get as distracted as I do when I have bright lights shining in my face. That said, I actually love e-books because of their easy accessibility (apologies for stating the obvious). The combination of Wikisource and Project Gutenberg have spoiled me and I find many forays into libraries and book stores saddening when I am looking for a very specific book. Online I have access to not just to Edgar Allen Poe and William Shakespeare; I can also find Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard, among scores of others. The shear power is ecstacy, if not a bit daunting. That said, stumbling through the bookshelves at random provides a lot of enjoyment when I am not looking for anything in particular. Also, it helps the e-book movement's case with me that i like older books. Those who like more modern books would obviously like physical books more on account of copyright laws (unless they have the drool-inspiring Kindle).
I prefer paper books because I can take them with me everywhere. I spend so much time on the computer already with school (and play), that I don't need another excuse (books) to do so...
I go to my library - books are essentially free. I only buy books I want to own, and reread, not books I want to read.