E-readers make it easy to:
- Consult reference materials while reading (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, and translators), which is especially helpful when on-the-go. Was a great help when reading Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy, which is rife with Mexican Spanish dialogue and vocabulary.
- Get books to buy or borrow.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Hear about book ... find book ... buy book ... start reading book. All within minutes. The immediacy of it is the number one reason for me. My reading habits and the amount I read hasn't really changed with ereaders ... the GETTING of books changed for me. It no longer involves cars/trucks, fuel, hours, or postmen (or waiting on postmen).
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+1 Expanded: "Hear about book ... find book... buy OR BORROW book ... start reading book."
Since digital media can be borrowed OTA, with just a few clicks, I now patronize multiple library systems that I previously qualified for but found inconvenient to visit.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Also note that I honor no imaginary rule which chooses to exclude tablets from the "ereader" club simply because someone wants to blame the lack of their inability to focus on a piece of equipment's (entirely voluntary) ability to do more than one thing. If I "eread" on it ... it's my "ereader." Period.
Neener.
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+1
- Read whenever/wherever the mood and opportunity strike.
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Originally Posted by PandathePanda
My ereader is whatever of my devices is with me.
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+1. (Though my fave is my NOOK HD.)