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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I'm sure fans of the horse and buggy used to complain that they couldn't "curl up" or "take a bath" with their cars like they could their horses. I won't even mention the smell.
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I think a lot of people care for the cars better than they would have cared for a horse
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Originally Posted by jenieliser
Well, I have to say I am guilty of loving physical books. I keep my favorites on my bookshelf. I do like the look, feel, and yes, the smell of paper books. I love to walk into a nicely kept library and just look around. (I covet the Beast's library in Beauty and the Beast  )
Despite this, I prefer my Reader. It is more convenient and actually doesn't take away from the "reading experience." So, yes I will always keep my classics collection on my bookshelf. But that doesn't mean I don't love my Reader just as much.
That fact (that I love my paper books) combined with the fact that I absolutely love my Reader has made some of my friends-also pbook lovers-consider a Reader. Getting a Reader does not mean you are turning your back on your good old faves you've broken in over the years. |
Yes, that's how I see it as well. I love my pbooks and there are some that I will read instead of my ereader, even though that is more handy. I'm one of both worlds. I want the "want to have" of the ebook and the beauty of a full bookshelf.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I wish the anti-ebook posts would focus on the *real* values that pbooks can offer but ebooks can't. Some of those might be fixed in the future, but for now-- - It's hard to flip through an ebook and find "that page with the chart about swords."
- Can't easily show off a selection of ebooks for someone else to read. For example, if a doctor's waiting room had half a dozen Sony Readers for patients, they'd have to scroll through lists, 10 books at a time, instead of viewing a whole rack at once.
- Lack of image-based view makes it harder to remember & find books. (There's a reason we use pictures on covers & decorate spines of books, and use different fonts for the plain spines.)
- Art books. Which has been discussed, and will continue to be a real concern.
There are ways that ebooks aren't as good as pbooks--but they have nothing to do with the smell of paper. |
One thing a lot of anti-ebook person forget is that there are various types of books. Some books you just must have in paper format. Simply because they are so awesome that it's just not possible to leave it at that bookstore. Some books just aren't made for readers, art books are one of them, but also some books where you have to go back and forth a lot. But there are also a lot of books that are perfect for a reader. Those Harlequin novels, books you'd just buy a mass-market paperback so you could read it once, anthologies (which are terribly heavy if the author is prodigious
My Book of Amber is huge and the paper is thin!)
Most anti-ebook persons think that if you start reading electronically, you can never go back to paper, or something... While they can coexist peacefully!