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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
In contrast to this, I have several ladies I know who have e-readers and end up doing most of their reading via paper books. Both who come to mind right away are big library patrons. They got out of the habit briefly when they first got their readers, but soon reverted to library books and paperback sales. The one uses her reader if a book is free or really cheap; the other barely uses it at all. It sits unused most of the time. There's another lady in the same reading group who has mentioned she doesn't use hers but I don't know the details.
For some there is habit involved and perhaps a bit of social reasons (library is familiar, gets them out...they know the librarian...) My neighbor has a Kindle Fire. She never uses it. She's afraid she'll break it (I kid you not.) She won't take it anywhere because "it's expensive and I might lose it or it will get stolen." She does a lot of word games. I've sent her links to those same games (freebies) and books and so on. She has them all loaded faithfully and still buys the paper books with the word games.  It just doesn't catch on with some people. She doesn't use her good china either. "It's worth a lot of money. I'm not taking a chance on losing a piece because it gets broken."
There you have it. The human hoarding mind.  |
This describes me. I borrow most of the books I read. Since the library usually has more paper copies of books, the waiting list is usually shorter on paper copies of popular books and the library often doesn't have ebook versions of certain books or gets the ebook version much later, I still read more paper books than ebooks. Also, I prefer to read non-fiction in paper format since I find it easier to highlight, bookmark and flip back and forth in paper books. I used my e-reader often when I first bought it. However, the novelty has worn off since then and I rarely use it.