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Instead of a pile of unread paperbacks on the floor I'm working on a plan to have a pile of different e-book readers, each with a pile of books waiting to be read.
Since getting the Kobo a few months ago the only paper books I've opened have been reference books. It's still quicker to grab a dictionary off the shelf in the office and look up a word than to start the Kindle and search in its dictionary. |
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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I don't miss paper books at all and I read more since buying my Nook. I love the fact that a finger swipe turns the page and I don't have to hold pages open. Best yet, no more worry about losing my place because my kids decided they wanted the bookmark and pulled it out.
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Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada
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It's Dr. Penguin now!
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: (USA)
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It's not an all or nothing thing for me. Right now, I'm reading a library pbook. I love books, period, and I enjoy both ebooks and pbooks for different reasons. Each also has drawbacks for me. if I felt I had to only read one type from here on out, that would feel suffocating.
Incidentally, when my husband first gave me the ereader, I initially felt a sense of loss like you are describing. It didn't take long to appreciate that I can have my cake and eat it too ![]() |
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Asia
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I love ebooks in concept, but not so much in execution. To me, they are still a bit too crude to replace paper books, and I really have trouble forcing myself to spend full book prices on ebooks with kindergarten-level formatting and typesetting. With luck and a little market-oriented motivation, reading software and the books themselves will become much more pleasing to the eye, and if E-Ink and its competitors continue to step up their game and develop more readable low-power screens, I'll shift pretty much all of my fiction to digital format.
For now though, I'll be reading around 50% of my fiction on paper. Academic reading I've been splitting pretty evenly between computer monitor and paper, but none on a dedicated reader device yet. |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Texas
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Not really.... I started reading ebooks a few years ago and have never looked back. Shortly after going digital, I tried reading a few paper books and found myself missing the digital reading experience.
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No i certainly don't miss the paper books, i used to buy a lot of mine off ebay , only to have them delivered , open them up to read and then the smell of strong tobacco hit you in the face, my ebooks are very real and they are always nice and fresh.
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Really. I've never in my life had that happen and I currently buy almost all my print books used from Amazon vendors.
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I still have both. I love hunting in used bookstores to find great books. I still use p-books during take off and landing. And, sometimes I just don't want to bring my ereader with me.
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The space savings, the ease of getting new books and the ability to carry my entire library with me have rendered paper books a distinct second class as compared to ebooks on my ereader.
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Just passed my first anniversary with an ebook reader (first a Kindle2 and now KindleDX). While I love the ease of my Kindle and the fact that I can carry *hundreds* of books on it (and do), my weird tastes means that many of the books I'm interested in don't exist in any ebook format and so I still buy and enjoy my paper books.
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I think it's a case of ebooks all the way for me now, yet I still miss paper books. I still enjoy seeing a stack of paper books, picking one up, feeling the texture of the pages and the page cuts, smelling newly bought books, looking at some of the beautiful and thought-inspiring covers out there.
Then I actually start reading a paper book and the novelty quickly wears off. Usually heavier, needs both hands, sometimes dusty. Really, I'm fully convinced of the convenience of ebooks, and I still miss the aesthetics of paper books, yet once I start reading a paper book, I can't help but compare it to the ebook experience. I'm such a fickle person. ![]() |
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