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Old 03-28-2017, 07:54 PM   #106
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For me, the only advantage of paper books over electronic books is that you can show them off. A library (which has always been a very comforting environment for me) is a bit more difficult with electronic books and a lot more expensive too!

So, that's the only reason I have paper books: to show (I also have a house that's big enough for a library )
But you can only show off a paper library at home.

Whereas I'm digitizing a number of my rare books and can upload them to the cloud or load then on my phone or tablet and show them off to my friends wherever we happen to be.

This is good, because none of my friends live in town...

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Old 03-29-2017, 01:31 AM   #107
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This is good, because none of my friends live in town...
If you live in NE Oregon, there's hardly a town to live in anyway.
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Old 03-29-2017, 08:30 AM   #108
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Until you do a reset...
As long as you can remember some of the most recent words you've read, you can do a search to find your place. You cannot do that with a pBook.
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Old 03-29-2017, 09:40 AM   #109
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But you can only show off a paper library at home.

Whereas I'm digitizing a number of my rare books and can upload them to the cloud or load then on my phone or tablet and show them off to my friends wherever we happen to be.

This is good, because none of my friends live in town...
I can make pictures!
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Old 03-31-2017, 05:47 PM   #110
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If you live in NE Oregon, there's hardly a town to live in anyway.
Kinda sadly true.... 😂

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Old 03-31-2017, 07:13 PM   #111
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Kinda sadly true.... 😂
I need to get back out there. I have only driven through a few times in the last decade or so but I remember really enjoying Wallowa Lake and the surrounding area. Normally just drive through on the way to Boise to see family, which isn't very exciting. Spending 2 days in Hermiston for work doesn't count.
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Old 03-31-2017, 08:22 PM   #112
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Perhaps others really enjoy the feel and smell of paper books, but for me, a book is a book.
That kind of sums up my feelings about computers in general.

I'm a lifelong naturalist who appreciates the outdoors, simplicity, etc. So I never could imagine how I could ever like computers, let alone keep my head buried in a monitor all day long.

In fact, my laptop is nothing more than a tool that helps me learn and organize information. It's far more useful than print.

However, I still find print more aesthetic. There was an abandoned one-room school building on my uncle's farm in South Dakota. I went inside one day and found some ancient text books published before World War II. They were books my mother read.

I don't think ebooks will have the same mystique a hundred years from now.
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Old 03-31-2017, 08:32 PM   #113
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I don't think ebooks will have the same mystique a hundred years from now.
We can only hope.
Love the letter; not the envelope.
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Old 03-31-2017, 09:59 PM   #114
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Only if the letter's paper ;-)
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:50 AM   #115
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My experience with e-readers is that they are bloated with too many features.

This is not really an issue in itself, but it makes the UI so intricate. Whenever you touch the screen by mistake you will trigger something like zooming, marking a word, bringing up a menu, turn page etc... This makes them very delicate to handle, which I find tiring. Both physcially by holding the device restricted to the often narrow trim on the side, and also as a nagging feeling in the back of my head that I have to be careful when handling the device; If anything touches the screen it is very likely to mess up my reading session in one way or another.

Sometimes once and again I pick up a regular book and I am delighted to find how relaxing it is not having to worry about touching the 'screen' by mistake.


The one feature that really sets the Kobo Aura One above regular books howerver, is the natural light feature. Thats hard to get with regular books. I mean, annotations and whatnot I can always write on the side, but controlling the room lighting is not always an option.
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:03 PM   #116
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That kind of sums up my feelings about computers in general.

I'm a lifelong naturalist who appreciates the outdoors, simplicity, etc. So I never could imagine how I could ever like computers, let alone keep my head buried in a monitor all day long.

In fact, my laptop is nothing more than a tool that helps me learn and organize information. It's far more useful than print.

However, I still find print more aesthetic. There was an abandoned one-room school building on my uncle's farm in South Dakota. I went inside one day and found some ancient text books published before World War II. They were books my mother read.

I don't think ebooks will have the same mystique a hundred years from now.
I own and cherish a few vintage textbooks myself.

On the other hand due to ebooks (and the work of countless volunteers) I can read and enjoy old books that I would have never been able to find or afford otherwise. And I do find a certain mystique in the survival and transformation of words that were originally handwritten, then typeset and finally exist as ebooks. The very fact that every time I download such a book I'm helping to increase the number of copies that exist is thought-provoking (particularly with books which survived the great pruning of the the so-called dark ages).
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Old 04-01-2017, 01:06 PM   #117
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Just saw a quotation about printed books:

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"Each time you open a book and read it, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death."
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Old 04-03-2017, 05:06 PM   #118
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the tree probably wouldn't smile if it knew that most of the time, the tree's life was ended for the purpose of making the paper that gives it life after death.
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Old 04-03-2017, 05:20 PM   #119
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the tree probably wouldn't smile if it knew that most of the time, the tree's life was ended for the purpose of making the paper that gives it life after death.
What about the trees that are planted specifically to be turned into paper? Those trees live to be 5 years old.
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I own my "mostest favoritest" books, which repose gracefully on my library shelves. However, since I do a lot of my reading on public transportation, those dead trees don't get out much. I can just imagine page 98 of my extremely vintage copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress blowing out the window of the subway halfway between here and where I'm going. (So-called "Perfect Binding" is usually less than...well, perfect.) Therefore, I have that (and the rest of Heinlein--and my other favorite authors) on my vintage tablet instead. I can read them comfortably any time, any where.
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