Paper (old fashioned way)?
Digitally (e-book, palm, etc.)?
If I could afford a Kindle (Amazon's reader) I'd read digitally in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I'm an impoverished writer. I can't read for very long from a computer display. I use an iMac and the resolution/clarity is pretty good. Maybe the aspect ratio is wrong for serious reading.
I am fine with paper, but the Kindle is a pretty amazing approach.
Oh well, maybe they'll drop the price someday.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.
- Mark Twain
I've tried the digital way, prefer the old way. I find that I tire easir, perhaps it looking at a bright screen. also with books you can them everywhere and put them with a marker no problem. Computers as great as they are just do not have the same flexibility as a book when it comes to reading literature.
Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation [Prester John - John Buchan].
With my p*ss poor eyesight, it is very difficult to read online. Therefore, I hold the book in front of my face and have a much easier time of reading it that way.
Besides, having a book in such proximity helps to hide my ugly face from other passengers when I'm commuting to work!
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent
~ Isaac Asimov
PAPER PURIST ALERT!!!
I solemnly swear that I will never ever read a full-length work ONLINE. That's just wrong.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Paper, paper, paper. If paper is the medium the author intended, then it is how it must be read. The position of the words on paper is important to some works. Transferring a concrete poem from paper to palm is taking the piss out of the whole thing. Someday an author will come along and explore the potential of words on screen in relation to paper and then digital will have a voice. Until then: the medium is the message and the medium is paper, paper, paper.
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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I have read a couple books online.. but it hurts my eyes, they go all fuzzy and start watering after an hour or so..
and books are just so great, I love the feel, I love the act of turning pages.. paper is the only way to read..
I have the same problem with my eyes so books are better for me as well. I have to admitt I like the feel of a book which you miss if you read online or with an ereaderOriginally Posted by hellsapoppin
With my p*ss poor eyesight, it is very difficult to read online. Therefore, I hold the book in front of my face and have a much easier time of reading it that way.
i occasionally read books on my pc, it's alot easier on microsoft reader than just on notepad.
no diggityI had read 'dignity'...
I have a friend with a Kindle and it is quite attractive. I'd need to spend at least a few nights with it to see how tolerable it is. There are a lot of pluses, but I too love the physicality of books, their smell, feel, heft, good paper, good typography, and good insulation in my old house!
So I am the only one who reads ebooks on a digital reader? Crucify me but I still buy paper books, collect them, love them and teach my children to collect and love them. No, I don't have a Kindle or 'Kindie' (as fan boys call it) , I use an Iliad Reader:
http://www.iliadreader.co.uk/product...FRyS1QodkTfbXg
"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 am very sorry, but since it is already hard enough to discipline oneself to sit down and read, and to make the effort not to get distracted, how could one possible concentrate properly sitting in front of the computer? It just doesn't make sense.
Also, reading is already hard enough on the eyes, why add glare and radiation to the mix of reading?
Besides, reading is one of the few respites I get from the computer, and going back to the computer to read would ultimately defeat part of the purpose of reading.
I prefer to read the old fashioned way. I love the smell of books, be they old or new. I love the yellowed pages of a book, something which I can't see with an e-book. Plus, my eyes won't be strained that much when reading books on paper.
Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas.
Yo sé quién soy, y sé que puedo ser no sólo los que he dicho. - Don Quixote
Paper! I can't read books on the Internet, after a while I lose my concentration...
I have read books online but I love going to a bookstore and buying a book. It is also kind of hard for me to curl up in my favorite chair with my laptop.
It's not surprising that the majority prefer paper, because that is what we have grown up with and paper books are wonderfully tactile but a couple of days ago I saw, for the first time, someone quite young reading an E-book on the underground. Future generations won't want to be bothered with paper books when they can slip an E-book into their pockets so easily. At the current rate of technological development, it is likely that in a few years it may be possble for the E-book format to hold hundreds or even thousands of books. That one individual I saw with an E-book is the thin end of a very large wedge.
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