How did you feel about reading a paper book after The Transition? - Page 2

rebarnmom · 10-08-2009, 11:21 AM

I had to buy my first pbook in July for a study I was doing and it was not available as an ebook for my reader at the time. It has since become available and I wasted no time buying & loading it on my reader.

One of the best benefits for me, besides being so portable (carrying so many books with me rather than just one) and its ability to enlarge the print, is that when I get easily distracted from my reading (which happens a lot at home, with family and all) I don't have to search long to find where I was at on the page when I became distracted!

GeoffC · 10-08-2009, 11:38 AM

i switch, though i use my ereader perhaps 90% of the time.

i rarely use a dictionary when reading a paper book.

most pbooks are those not yet available in eformat, or those i have already and are being re-read.

BenG · 10-08-2009, 12:06 PM

I tend to read more on my electronic readers, partly for convenience and partly to justify the price I paid for it. Ihave no aversion to paperbacks. I just bought several Kinky Friedman detective paperbacks, because only a few are available electronically.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 10-08-2009, 12:23 PM

Physically, I don't have a problem reading printed books. I do still have printed books in my collection that I occasionally read. I even have a cover with built-in bookmark, so I get full privacy, and never get lost when reading, just like my iPod provides.

But in the last 2 years, I've only bought one printed book. I mostly avoid them on environmental grounds now, and if the book I want isn't available electronically, I just don't buy it.

dmaul1114 · 10-08-2009, 12:27 PM

Doesn't bother me at all since I spent 30 years reading them. And still had been reading paper books and PDF printouts for my academic work even after getting a kindle so I never had a full transition. Just with leisure novel reading.

Ea · 10-08-2009, 12:37 PM

I'm not really sure when the "transition" happened. I think it was before I bought my first reader device (Cybook gen 3 when it first came out - three years ago?)

Before that, I had been reading online fan fiction for about a year, and was quite comfortable with reading it from a computer screen, and then on a PDA. The Cybook was just to make it easier. All that fan fiction also meant that I'd stopped reading "normal" novels, and I haven't really taken this up again until this year. It is a curiosum that it was partly the opportunity to read books on the ereader that made me look up novels and "ordinary fiction" again.

I can't say that reading "The Historian" as a p-book last year was so strange or anything. The weight was annoying, but that was about it.

Non-fiction tends to be almost only p-books - and of course, all Danish books I want to read have been p-books as well (so far).

For most things, I definitely prefer e-books, but I buy the occasional p-book as well.

delphidb96 · 10-08-2009, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahi

No different.

The liseuse, at this time, is not a superior experience. Its sole (but, to me, considerable) redeeming quality is the number of books it can hold and the fact that it can display arbitrary content.

Unlike many others here, I'm not getting rid of my paper books, and I do not foresee stopping to buy new ones... particularly given the content poverty of the eBook market.

- Ahi

I guess that this proves it is time to dump the lis***e in favor of the far more common - and versatile - ebook reader!

Derek

P.S. I find that I still enjoy reading HC dead-tree books, but that I have no patience with the super-thick MMPBs as they are awkward to hold and just don't balance as well as my ebook reader (Cybook Gen3). I've never experienced thumb or finger cramps that Ahi mentions. And yes, as someone else mentioned, sometimes those big hardcovers get a bit heavy for extended reading.

ahi · 10-08-2009, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by delphidb96

I guess that this proves it is time to dump the lis***e in favor of the far more common - and versatile - ebook reader!

Only if you suffer from acute xenophobia.

- Ahi

Sydney's Mom · 10-08-2009, 01:32 PM

Interesting question! I too say "it depends." Fiction, I have not read anything in paper since I got my kindle. The biggest thing for me is reading in bed, when my spouse is sleeping. It was hard to find the right way to hold the pbook, it was hard to see, the light wasn't adequate. With my kindle, I don't move anything but my thumb, and if the light isn't adeqaute, I increase the font size.

On the other hand, nonfiction I prefer paper. I can't always get paper (they took away my paper version of the tax code and regulations.) But even after 5+ years, I still wish I had paper, and print out most things.

delphidb96 · 10-08-2009, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahi

Only if you suffer from acute xenophobia.

- Ahi

No, but it's clear you suffer from a cute cramp-o-phobia. (Something I've never experienced with my Cybook.

)

Derek

Elsi · 10-08-2009, 02:03 PM

Because I belong to a book swapping group, I still do a lot of reading of paper books. (I think it's something around 60% paper and 40% electronic.) Books that I wouldn't want to swap, I'll purchase in electronic format. (Of course this backfired on me when I read a *wonderful* eBook and had to go out & buy the paperback to use in one of my swaps because I *really* wanted to share it.

GhostHawk · 10-08-2009, 02:06 PM

Well I've been reading on my Jetbook for about 6 months now.
My wife recently bought the new Dan Brown book in Hardcover, devoured it in 2 days, then handed it to me.

I got to chapter 14 before I got tired of holding it, and went out to find it in Ebook so I could load it on my jetbook.

An hour later I was back sitting in my comfy chair, reading it the way I prefer. On my jetbook.

I'll never go back to paper. I can read more comfortably, for longer, with less light than with a paper book. Not to mention being able to change font size's at will.

dickon25 · 10-08-2009, 02:20 PM

I've had my 505 for 15mths now and prefer it to pbooks. It's easier to hold and I don't end up breaking the spine so I can read the bits near the margin!! I still read pbooks though, if the book I want isn't available at a reasonable price (cue the threads on geographical restrictions!) I'll get it from my local library. I also still use paper for non-fiction, mainly history. This is because the choice in history ebooks is very poor and I'd be constantly trying to flick back and forth for maps/diagrams etc - not good on a 6" ereader. Having said that, if the book choices improved I'd probably consider getting an 8/10" reader so I could stay digital.

One of the downsides of an ereader though, is the size of my 'To be Read' list! I used to have about 3 books queued to read at any one time but now it's more like 100!!!

Elfwreck · 10-08-2009, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by delphidb96

P.S. I find that I still enjoy reading HC dead-tree books, but that I have no patience with the super-thick MMPBs as they are awkward to hold and just don't balance as well as my ebook reader (Cybook Gen3).

That's been my experience. Big hardcovers and coffee-table-sized books (I read a lot of gaming books, which mostly have letter-sized pages) are okay, but paperbacks drive me crazy; the pages won't sit open and the weight is wrong and the fonts are the wrong size. And they don't keep your page when you close the book.

ahi · 10-08-2009, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by delphidb96

No, but it's clear you suffer from a cute cramp-o-phobia. (Something I've never experienced with my Cybook.

)

Derek

How telling.

- Ahi

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10-08-2009, 11:21 AM	#16
rebarnmom Wizard Posts: 1,289 Karma: 4525055 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: rural Illinois, USA Device: Sony PRS-700 (traded in), Sony PRS-650	I had to buy my first pbook in July for a study I was doing and it was not available as an ebook for my reader at the time. It has since become available and I wasted no time buying & loading it on my reader. One of the best benefits for me, besides being so portable (carrying so many books with me rather than just one) and its ability to enlarge the print, is that when I get easily distracted from my reading (which happens a lot at home, with family and all) I don't have to search long to find where I was at on the page when I became distracted!

10-08-2009, 11:38 AM	#17
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	i switch, though i use my ereader perhaps 90% of the time. i rarely use a dictionary when reading a paper book. most pbooks are those not yet available in eformat, or those i have already and are being re-read.

10-08-2009, 12:06 PM	#18
BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,730 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	I tend to read more on my electronic readers, partly for convenience and partly to justify the price I paid for it. Ihave no aversion to paperbacks. I just bought several Kinky Friedman detective paperbacks, because only a few are available electronically.

10-08-2009, 12:23 PM	#19
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Physically, I don't have a problem reading printed books. I do still have printed books in my collection that I occasionally read. I even have a cover with built-in bookmark, so I get full privacy, and never get lost when reading, just like my iPod provides. But in the last 2 years, I've only bought one printed book. I mostly avoid them on environmental grounds now, and if the book I want isn't available electronically, I just don't buy it.

10-08-2009, 12:27 PM	#20
dmaul1114 Wizard Posts: 2,300 Karma: 1121709 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle 1	Doesn't bother me at all since I spent 30 years reading them. And still had been reading paper books and PDF printouts for my academic work even after getting a kindle so I never had a full transition. Just with leisure novel reading.

10-08-2009, 12:37 PM	#21
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	I'm not really sure when the "transition" happened. I think it was before I bought my first reader device (Cybook gen 3 when it first came out - three years ago?) Before that, I had been reading online fan fiction for about a year, and was quite comfortable with reading it from a computer screen, and then on a PDA. The Cybook was just to make it easier. All that fan fiction also meant that I'd stopped reading "normal" novels, and I haven't really taken this up again until this year. It is a curiosum that it was partly the opportunity to read books on the ereader that made me look up novels and "ordinary fiction" again. I can't say that reading "The Historian" as a p-book last year was so strange or anything. The weight was annoying, but that was about it. Non-fiction tends to be almost only p-books - and of course, all Danish books I want to read have been p-books as well (so far). For most things, I definitely prefer e-books, but I buy the occasional p-book as well.

10-08-2009, 01:32 PM	#24
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,899 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	Interesting question! I too say "it depends." Fiction, I have not read anything in paper since I got my kindle. The biggest thing for me is reading in bed, when my spouse is sleeping. It was hard to find the right way to hold the pbook, it was hard to see, the light wasn't adequate. With my kindle, I don't move anything but my thumb, and if the light isn't adeqaute, I increase the font size. On the other hand, nonfiction I prefer paper. I can't always get paper (they took away my paper version of the tax code and regulations.) But even after 5+ years, I still wish I had paper, and print out most things.

10-08-2009, 02:03 PM	#26
Elsi Wizard Posts: 2,366 Karma: 12000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Texas, USA Device: Kindle; Sony PRS 505; Blackberry 8700C	Because I belong to a book swapping group, I still do a lot of reading of paper books. (I think it's something around 60% paper and 40% electronic.) Books that I wouldn't want to swap, I'll purchase in electronic format. (Of course this backfired on me when I read a wonderful eBook and had to go out & buy the paperback to use in one of my swaps because I really wanted to share it.

10-08-2009, 02:06 PM	#27
GhostHawk Data Privateer! Posts: 586 Karma: 62887 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Fargo ND Device: Ectaco Jetbook& Jetbook Lite	Well I've been reading on my Jetbook for about 6 months now. My wife recently bought the new Dan Brown book in Hardcover, devoured it in 2 days, then handed it to me. I got to chapter 14 before I got tired of holding it, and went out to find it in Ebook so I could load it on my jetbook. An hour later I was back sitting in my comfy chair, reading it the way I prefer. On my jetbook. I'll never go back to paper. I can read more comfortably, for longer, with less light than with a paper book. Not to mention being able to change font size's at will.

10-08-2009, 02:20 PM	#28
dickon25 Groupie Posts: 199 Karma: 818 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Device: Sony PRS-505. Pocketbook Inkpad 840	I've had my 505 for 15mths now and prefer it to pbooks. It's easier to hold and I don't end up breaking the spine so I can read the bits near the margin!! I still read pbooks though, if the book I want isn't available at a reasonable price (cue the threads on geographical restrictions!) I'll get it from my local library. I also still use paper for non-fiction, mainly history. This is because the choice in history ebooks is very poor and I'd be constantly trying to flick back and forth for maps/diagrams etc - not good on a 6" ereader. Having said that, if the book choices improved I'd probably consider getting an 8/10" reader so I could stay digital. One of the downsides of an ereader though, is the size of my 'To be Read' list! I used to have about 3 books queued to read at any one time but now it's more like 100!!!

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