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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I for one, love not having to make a 45 minute trek to the nearest bookstore that carries the titles I would want to read.
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And I for two love bookstores, even though I usually don't buy anything (not always), but I love the smell and the look of fresh books, and it's a good place to get reading ideas (check out what's currently popular in a favorite genre, read the description, read a page...).
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Also, the ability to go from researching an author to reading that author's work in seconds, was a huge incentive for me. Waiting 4-5 days for delivery (if I ordered the pBook online) played hell with my ability to plan out my reading schedule. With an ereader, I can read a review of the book and be reading the same book 1 minute later. Bada-bing!
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Well I don't order books online unless I can't find them in the local bookstore, and then only for manuals or scientific books or the like. When bought in the bookstore, they take 0 seconds to start reading (unless you count the trip home), while starting to read a book in the form of a computer file usually takes 10-15 minutes... A few minutes to download (if it's popular and easy to find), then maybe 10 minutes till I adjust it juuuuust right (like the bear and the porridge) with Book Designer 4.0 (adjusting margins, font size, text formatting...) and then sometimes I'll add the frontcover illustration to the first page... Then I have to plug in the reader and copy the file, then when I first open it it takes a minute or two for the reader to format it.
So it definitely isn't instant gratification for me but reading books isn't about instant gratification at all (it takes hours at least), ice cream is (and sex, sometimes ).
So for you it's speed of delivery, OK.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
So there's a lot more driving the industry than simply portability and geekiness.
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So it's portability, geekiness and laziness...
Doesn't sound very applaudable...
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Buying an eBook reader is cheaper than buying a new house. My house was literally full to bursting with books. Bookshelves, double-stacked, on every wall. Now I have thousands of books on a hard disk the size of a pack of playing cards.
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LOL, this is definitely one answer I didn't expect.
I've never even considered that problem, my own book collection fills up one cupboard, barely (I also have thousands on my hard drive, but who doesn't).
So space is reason number 2.