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Originally Posted by gouzos
I find that reading ebooks is pretty awful. The experience is nowhere close to the real thing. I read ebooks out of necessity and I would never pay for it.
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And I find reading ebooks is about the only way I can get through more than 50 pages of content anymore. Pbooks are bulky, take two hands, and the print doesn't lie flat. I only buy pbooks when I not only can't get them as ebooks, but they're on a tiny handful of topics that are crucially important to me... and even then, sometimes I chop the spines off, scan them & convert to ebook, because I'm more likely to read them that way.
You are welcome to dislike ebooks, but most of the members of these forums are not here because they think ebooks are a necessary evil.
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For me ebooks are like shared mp3s. Shitty but useful.
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And I think pbooks are an archaic method of data transmission, useful for situations where technology is limited. Oh, and sometimes nice for artistic reasons.
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If I buy the ebook I also get to read the content (a much lesser experience), I also can’t keep the object, but still I have to pay the amount I would if had bought the paper book.
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If I buy the pbook, I can't search it, can't copy-and-paste excerpts for reviews, can't zoom in to show it to friends who have trouble reading small print. Oh, and I'm stuck with this half-pound brick of paper cluttering up my house.
You are in the wrong place to argue that pbooks are better than ebooks, and that that's part of the problems with ebook industries and copyright laws.