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Yapyap · 02-02-2012, 09:43 AM

I just moved to a new flat a few weeks ago, with a couple of thousand physical books. The bookshelves (the ones deep enough) are nearly all lined two deep and there isn't room for more bookshelves.

Also, with my dust allergy and dust-triggered asthma, I've almost got to the point where I'm ready to punch people who go on and on about the "smell of real books" in the face. Yeah, some of them smell okay, once you've survived dusting them. (And some, like a few photo books I have from the 1960s, stink of some horrible chemical and I can't really even get close to them, never mind read them.)

I do appreciate a good hardcover book, provided that it's well made (not going to fall apart on me), uses the nice creamy lighter thicker paper which doesn't blind me, instead of heavy white shiny paper like some new books do, and is still light enough to hold for several hours. Paperbacks... most of them are a real pain to read - hard to hold open, the font is too small and the line spacing too tight, and the ink tends to come off and stain my hands.

I still buy my favourite series in hardcover as well as in e-version, because they just look so good in my shelf (and, well, I also buy the paperbacks, as those have a different cover design and...) but that's one small part of all the books I buy and read.

I'd practically given up on buying and reading new books before getting my first e-reader, because there just wasn't anywhere to put them. (I'm a re-reader, so I don't like to get rid of the books I have, and the options for that are limited anyway - I buy and read mostly books in English, which don't really have an aftermarket here, and I can't just give them away to a charity or library either, as, again, there is no interest.)

02-02-2012, 09:43 AM	#38
Yapyap Guru Posts: 861 Karma: 3543721 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Estonia Device: Kindle Paperwhite, iPad 3, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge	I just moved to a new flat a few weeks ago, with a couple of thousand physical books. The bookshelves (the ones deep enough) are nearly all lined two deep and there isn't room for more bookshelves. Also, with my dust allergy and dust-triggered asthma, I've almost got to the point where I'm ready to punch people who go on and on about the "smell of real books" in the face. Yeah, some of them smell okay, once you've survived dusting them. (And some, like a few photo books I have from the 1960s, stink of some horrible chemical and I can't really even get close to them, never mind read them.) I do appreciate a good hardcover book, provided that it's well made (not going to fall apart on me), uses the nice creamy lighter thicker paper which doesn't blind me, instead of heavy white shiny paper like some new books do, and is still light enough to hold for several hours. Paperbacks... most of them are a real pain to read - hard to hold open, the font is too small and the line spacing too tight, and the ink tends to come off and stain my hands. I still buy my favourite series in hardcover as well as in e-version, because they just look so good in my shelf (and, well, I also buy the paperbacks, as those have a different cover design and...) but that's one small part of all the books I buy and read. I'd practically given up on buying and reading new books before getting my first e-reader, because there just wasn't anywhere to put them. (I'm a re-reader, so I don't like to get rid of the books I have, and the options for that are limited anyway - I buy and read mostly books in English, which don't really have an aftermarket here, and I can't just give them away to a charity or library either, as, again, there is no interest.)