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Old 02-05-2021, 11:31 PM   #31
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I have a kindle keyboard that goes everywhere with me in my bookbag that I use instead of a purse. It is kept in a quilted oven mitt while in the bag and I've never used a case. In all the years I've carried it around along with lunches, books, groceries in the same bag it isn't even scratched.

As for why I love ebooks? before I got my reader I had 40 carboard boxes of paperbacks and 4 bookcases crammed full cluttering up my apartment. Books stacked everywhere there was space and there wasn't much in my apartment.
Oven mitt! What a good idea!
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Old 02-06-2021, 12:29 AM   #32
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No case, what a bad idea!
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I have a kindle keyboard that goes everywhere with me in my bookbag that I use instead of a purse. It is kept in a quilted oven mitt while in the bag and I've never used a case.
Ah, so that's why it smells like tuna casserole whenever you're reading.
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Old 02-06-2021, 07:15 AM   #34
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Ah, so that's why it smells like tuna casserole whenever you're reading.
@crossie reads in private because the Kindle smells like liver and onions.
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Old 02-06-2022, 07:54 AM   #35
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I like ebooks more than physical books is because I can carry a whole library of ebooks with me with just one ereader, but that is not possible for physical books.
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Old 02-07-2022, 09:06 AM   #36
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I think the answer can be summed up by simply saying these three words:

"War and Peace"
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Old 02-07-2022, 09:39 AM   #37
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I think the answer can be summed up by simply saying these three words:

"War and Peace"
Only if you have trouble sleeping.
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Old 02-07-2022, 09:43 AM   #38
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Only if you have trouble sleeping.
Because all those who consider it to be one of the greatest novels of all time are clearly lying poseurs.
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Old 02-07-2022, 09:48 AM   #39
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Only if you have trouble sleeping.
Yeah, having a hardback copy of that fall onto your head would probably put you out for a while.
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Old 02-07-2022, 10:55 AM   #40
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Because all those who consider it to be one of the greatest novels of all time are clearly lying poseurs.
No, that would be the ones who say that about Moby Dick
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Old 02-07-2022, 11:04 AM   #41
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No, that would be the ones who say that about Moby Dick
Hah! I may feel a thread coming on. First I need to figure out my own lying poseur books, as I think both War and Peace and Moby Dick are most enjoyable and well deserving their classic status (a different but equally contentious can of worms!).
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Old 02-07-2022, 11:50 AM   #42
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One advantage of e-books… is that they can be searched so easily.

Well, except on Tolinos, which suck on in-book searches…
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One advantage of e-books… is that they can be searched so easily.

Well, except on Tolinos, which suck on in-book searches…
I can't tell you how many times I've tried to do a Ctrl+F on a paper book and then go "...wait..."
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Because all those who consider it to be one of the greatest novels of all time are clearly lying poseurs.
If you say so.
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Hah! I may feel a thread coming on. First I need to figure out my own lying poseur books, as I think both War and Peace and Moby Dick are most enjoyable and well deserving their classic status (a different but equally contentious can of worms!).
Have a go at Finnegan’s Wake. If that fails, you can have a go at Ulysses.
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