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Old 09-03-2014, 01:55 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73 View Post
I have been buying fewer and fewer pBooks. I really like eReading. It saves space and you carry ALL your books with you, which I like. Also, now I have the Paperwhite, it is just so easy (too easy) to buy books and I can read in any light. The lighting of it all makes me nostalgic in a way because, when I was a kid, I beat bedtime by bringing a book and flashlight under the covers with me.

My only concern, as someone with an M.A. in history and an M.L.I.S., is preservation. I have some books that were my great-great grandfather's. If I could read German, which I can't, I could still read them. I can read the Pocahontas book that belonged to another great-great, though, but the Swiss forebears seem to be the ones who were readers, so most of my old books are in German. Given the speed with which technologies and formats change, I doubt my nephew and nieces will be able to read my books.
I've had an attempt to learn German at duolingo. It's a good enough website, but I didn't succeed in my attempt and gave up early. I've also tried to learn Japanese (only orally), but Pimsleur is relatively useless for that.
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