I prefer paper book. To be reading from the screen of my monitor will end bothering my eyes after a while. And I can't print them that would be thousands of pages that mean lots of money in black ink!
I prefer paper book. To be reading from the screen of my monitor will end bothering my eyes after a while. And I can't print them that would be thousands of pages that mean lots of money in black ink!
If I can't find a paper book, but can find it as an ebook I'll print it out to read, but no way in hell will I read it on the screen!
Paper books feel bulky and cumbersme. I love reading on my iLiad. The convenience is unbelievable:
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"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
I can't see what the appeal is myself. One of the best thing about books is the books themselves. The smell, the way they feel, the fact you can flick to any page you want without fannying around with a menu and a pen, the fact you can read them at the beach without worrying about the sand, the fact you can read them in the bath, the fact you can have more than one book open at once... I can't think of any way in which an e-book is superior to a paper book, other than in terms of storage
you don't need batteries to read normal books either
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
I prefer paper books, feeling the paper, the smell of the book, even reading the book while i lie down in the bed, but with ebook on computer it is not possible, it is good for short texts.
Art is a lie that leads to the truth.
--Picasso
I like paper books for fiction- however e-books would be okay for non-fiction as you can skim more easily. the point of books is to show that there is a world away from computers and tv- it's like mcdonalds making their salads.
it would give me a headache reading off a screen and also paper books can withstand a little wear and tear- if you wore and tore your pocket computer thingy, it wouldn't like that much
Definitely paper books. E-books are too much of a strain on the eyes and paper books come in more handy.
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
and by contrast, i like the smell of an old book....smiles....Originally Posted by bouquin
Heh, I don't need to talk about smells to justify my reading a real book. Seriously, the smell is the least important thing. The most important thing is the margins, and the fact that you can write all over them in different colors, highlight certain passages, and make edits, change words, etc. You don't get that feel with an e-book, even if you get the expensive one that lets you write on the screen with the plastic pointer.
Really when it comes down to it, I have two types of reading,
my casual reading,
and my serious reading.
Casual reading involves looking at a text once, and flipping through it. Usually bulky novels go in here, especially if they are not major novels.
Group 2 is reading with a pencil in hand, and usually involves a lot of supplementary reading to go with the text in the form of criticism, and historical backgrounding.
For group 1, I see no problem with using an e-book, though I am not about to buy one now, seeing as all of the books in that category come from the library. With group B though, no one would I be caught dead with an E-Reader. Not only is it more difficult to read, being that I can't lean on the book, but it also doesn't allow the convenient feature of the pencil, and the highlighter.
You mean you want to do all this:
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
No, I mean with multi colors, and real handwriting. I am sure the texture doesn't feel good, and feels like writing on a palm pilot, and not paper, with friction, and the scratching of the pen.
Sure we all like paper books but I think many of you are being unfair on eBooks. For example eBooks are actually more "comfortable" and practical, of course I'm refering to using eReaders rather than reading from a computer.
Reading in bed with an eBook is much more comfortable - why? because the eReader is less bulky and heavy than a book and importantly you're not turning pages.. you know how you have to hold the book up when you're reading one or the other page depending on which way you're lying.
Plus eBooks are practical! you can carry hundreds of books around with you in your jacket pocket - i'd like to see you try that with paper books. And someone mentioned likeing different fonts etc... well with an eBook you can choose the font and text size! even colour if your device supports colour. plus you don't need a bookcase for an eBook collection, good if you don't have much space.
eBooks are the way of the future, paper books will decline, in 10 years most of us will be reading eBooks and paper books will just be a nostalgic supplement.
Last edited by DapperDrake; 05-31-2008 at 07:00 AM.
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Currently Reading: Dead Souls - Gogol
and what is the actual point of that? would you ever really need 100 books in your jacket pocket?! you must be a fast reader
maybe some people on here think that it is a good idea, but i should imagine the great majority of literature lovers would never swap books for ebooks
it is just a gimmick in my opinion
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
It doesn't really need to be an either/or argument. I do most of my reading on my Kindle, but I also buy paper books occasionally for various reasons. I just order Louis-Ferdinand Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night" because I couldn't find an ebook copy available.
To each his or her own!
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." -- Jean Genet
I buy paper books very regularly. Classics are free in ebook format any way. I prefer ebooks because of the sheer comfort of the ereader. You don't even have to hold the device, just place it in your lap or on your arm and reach out and gently push the flip-bar to change the page. Pocket PCs have auto scroll but I don't like reading on back-lit screens any more. I love literature and knowledge, regardless of its package, format or means of delivery. Electronic paper is a very new concept. Soon we will see flexible roll up epaper, Epson are working on the color version, Kindle gives you access to thousands of Amazon titles anywhere, any time. Sites like Feedbook.com deliver content for specific devices and their standard is very high indeed. I have direct access to the thousands of classics on Feedbooks.com classic using my iLiad on a WiFi connection. I remember how I saved money to buy the Penguin paperback edition of Gogol's Dead Souls during my student days. Now I don't have to worry about money as Dead Souls is available free on the internet. What excuse can one have for not reading?
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
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