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Uncle Robin · 01-19-2021, 03:34 PM

I started migrating to ebooks before it became a physical necessity, but since I was never particularly in love with the physicality of books, leaving them behind was no wrench. I do read on my PC quite a bit, it's what I use for PDFs and anything color-rich. Other than that, my Kobo wins hands down. I'm 80% through the Delphi Classics Maurice LeBlanc collection, and I shudder to think of how heavy, awkward and unwieldy a 4800 page book would be. There are some rare cases in which I prefer dead tree, mostly books as art -my Discworld Atlas, the bilingual, quadscriptal Dialogs of Pyaasa. There's also my collection of Hindi-Urdu dictionaries (though if they were digitised, I'd ditch the paper stat), but in the main, I consider that I've lost very little by going digital. If I crave a shot of vanillin to the nose, I can always wander through a secondhand bookstore and inhale deeply.

01-19-2021, 03:34 PM	#12
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,662 Karma: 52758936 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra Colour	I started migrating to ebooks before it became a physical necessity, but since I was never particularly in love with the physicality of books, leaving them behind was no wrench. I do read on my PC quite a bit, it's what I use for PDFs and anything color-rich. Other than that, my Kobo wins hands down. I'm 80% through the Delphi Classics Maurice LeBlanc collection, and I shudder to think of how heavy, awkward and unwieldy a 4800 page book would be. There are some rare cases in which I prefer dead tree, mostly books as art -my Discworld Atlas, the bilingual, quadscriptal Dialogs of Pyaasa. There's also my collection of Hindi-Urdu dictionaries (though if they were digitised, I'd ditch the paper stat), but in the main, I consider that I've lost very little by going digital. If I crave a shot of vanillin to the nose, I can always wander through a secondhand bookstore and inhale deeply. Last edited by Uncle Robin; 01-19-2021 at 03:39 PM.