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Old 10-08-2009, 06:53 PM   #48
stxopher
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Hmmm, to be honest I still read some paper but none of them are the paperbacks that used to make up so much of my library. The paper I still have or buy are at least a good full size hardback.

In fact I will buy the hardback AFTER reading the digital version if I really enjoyed it and figure to reread it leisurely later. There is something that still satisfies long held desires by settling into a comfortable chair (especially when the weather turns chilly) with a slow reading book being read just to read. Books like this make it easy to end up with some really nice book shelves. (Looking over I can see one shelf with Tolkien, the Oz series and a good chunk of Twain. All of them in high quality bindings and paper that make them a joy to read.)

Sooo, guess that means I don't read digital much? Not true. 98 percent of my reading is still on some sort of screen. Most of my reading before was done in paperbacks which my Sony and Cybook have taken over. Reading a standard PB now is...awkward (some actually border on painful for some of the more badly bound ones).

It all boils down to moving from a library consisting of paperbacks with some hardbacks (limited due to small space in the apartment) to a library consisting of digital and HQ hardbacks.

By using the reader so much I've actually become a more discerning physical book buyer and reader due to higher standards compared to the previous baseline of PBs.
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