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Originally Posted by Ea
I guess you never think about cracked spines and general wear and tear on your paper book? And perhaps you don't read long books either? (there's a significant difference between holding 200 g in your hands and 1 kg)
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Actually I do, on both accounts.
I don't know what books you mean that weigh 1kg (an encyclopedia maybe ?) but I commonly read books of up to 700-800 pages (small or medium format). I'd say that's pretty long, though not the longest I've read by far. The biggest/heaviest book I have that I actually read (instead of just look things up in it) is a large format illustrated encyclopedia of Greek/Celtic/Germanic mythology.
And I do worry about the wear and tear on my books, more then most people I know, cause I like them to look new on the shelf, and not bent and twisted. But that wasn't a major reason for crossing over to e-readers for me, in fact it's a reason against it, because reading digital books means you don't get wear and tear on the books but you also don't get anything to put on the shelf either...
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What I have noticed with regards pirated books is that the formatting is usually crap (much worse than the stuff I can buy)
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I've had that experience rarely, no problems with most books, and sometimes purchased digital books can be even worse.
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I can also tell you that the reason that ebooks and ebook readers are not yet so widely popular in Denmark is the lack of e-books available in Danish combined with the steep price of the reader devices. It's not so much the availability of the devices themselves that's a problem, it's content in Danish.
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Well I prefer to read books in the original language, and since I mostly read foreign authors and especially American ones that's usually English. The same goes for 3 out of 4 people I know who often read books (they're all young people who speak good English), so I can say that the main reason e-readers are not yet widely popular in Croatia is not content availability, but instead device availability and price, and even more importantly (cause those two problems can be overcome by those who want to) the inital reluctance of people to try reading off a screen instead of reading off paper (and I know cause I've tried to convince people but repeatedly get the "oh it doesn't have the smell and feel of paper" or "it's just a computer screen" lines).
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What bigger screen? The comics I read have a large paper size (think French/Belgian comics) and often in colour. Do please recommend me an ebook colour reader with a large enough screen that is also comfortable and light (and relatively cheap) for me to read Asterix on
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Well I'm not exactly an expert on large-format e-readers (I prefer 6-7" that you can hold easily) but I think Illiad and Hanlin had a 10" model (that should be enough to satisfy any girl
) and there may be others now that e-reader models have started replicating like bunnies. I remember reading about a large thin reader for newspapers named Skiff Reader, don't know if that's out yet but it looked real cool and futuristic.
I've tried reading various comics on my Sony PRS-505 (mostly Alan Ford) but aren't satisfied with the experience because of 2 problems - zoom and "paging". The first problem is that comicbook pages are usually too big for my reader so if I read them zoomed out so they fit on the reader the letters are too small (especially since the scans are usually poor and blurry) and if I zoom them in it's a problem moving around to other parts of the page (that might be easier with the new touch interface and faster refresh). The second problem is that my reader doesn't support .cbr and doesn't support folders (still goes for newer Sony models !) so how the hell am I supposed to group comicbook pages / images ? A dozen comics makes for thousands of image files on the reader all in the same folder, it's a mess ! If anyone's got a solution for these problems, please enlighten me !