The New Yorker hates on Kindle

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by sparky750

I'm brand new to ereaders having only bought my 505 on friday, I've found it slightly worse than paper to read however the convenience more than makes up for it.
I work offshore on oil rigs an awful lot and the weight restriction on the helicopters is normally 10kg, due to the nature of my job i can spend a lot of time sat around reading however due to weight 2 paperbacks is my limit Which dependant on the job only last about 4 days into a 2-3 week trip I fly off again on thursday and my reader will be loaded up ready to go. I wish there where more titles available however i'll take what i can get right now and still buy real books when i can't find the ebook version. So yes readers aren't perfect but they solve a massive problem for me and make the pleasure of reading more accessible plus i'm not waiting for deliveries of books

Next time you come on board, tell them you're bringing a couple of hundred books with you.


Don

[wodin]

Does Atlas Shrugged count as four pbooks?

[MaggieScratch]

Originally Posted by sparky750

I'm brand new to ereaders having only bought my 505 on friday, I've found it slightly worse than paper to read however the convenience more than makes up for it.
I work offshore on oil rigs an awful lot and the weight restriction on the helicopters is normally 10kg, due to the nature of my job i can spend a lot of time sat around reading however due to weight 2 paperbacks is my limit Which dependant on the job only last about 4 days into a 2-3 week trip I fly off again on thursday and my reader will be loaded up ready to go. I wish there where more titles available however i'll take what i can get right now and still buy real books when i can't find the ebook version. So yes readers aren't perfect but they solve a massive problem for me and make the pleasure of reading more accessible plus i'm not waiting for deliveries of books

Hey Sparky,

Welcome and just wait--you'll be putting aside pbooks to read ebooks soon enough! Resistance is futile!

You might want to poke around in the Ebooks section of this site and find some great free classics all ready for your reader.

[LDBoblo]

Originally Posted by Abecedary

Do you normally read trade paperbacks or mass market paperbacks? If mass market, then yes, an e-ink screen will usually be an improvement. If trade paperback, then the e-ink is a slight step down (IMHO, but it's a step down I'm willing to live with). That's because many mass market paperbacks use very low quality paper and ink whereas trade paperbacks tend to use slightly heavier stock and higher quality ink. Of course, this isn't a hard and fast rule, but rather a general one.

I don't know about usually an improvement, as most of the mass-market paperbacks on my shelf are a few solid steps above the e-reader in quality, even though they also have problems. Most of what's on my shelf nowadays is Harper-Collins stuff, and while the paper is usually a bit sickly of tone and printing density is a bit variable, at least there are legible serifs on nice typefaces that don't work at all on my Sony.

Of course, I also have some old poetry books that are cheap paperbacks and the ink has spread out and feathered into the paper during printing, so it looks pretty bad--fairly comparable to a reader device. Granted, I'm running at 8-10 point faces mostly so I can get enough text on a page to at least feel like I'm reading a book. In any event, many cheap paperbacks can handle Minion or Caslon or Garamond and still be legible...my reader cannot.

Unless the ink has feathered and bled significantly (which admittedly I have seen on some paperbacks), it is almost always an improvement over an e-ink screen. Perhaps I should buy more of those badly-printed books to help me better appreciate what I have.

[Anstance Tamplin]

I don't have an electronic reader. I joined MobileRead to help my 92-year-old mother, who uses a Kindle because of her poor eyesight and wanted recommendations. I took Nicholson Baker's New Yorker piece with a huge grain of salt, knowing that he'd campaigned to "rescue" historic newspapers that libraries were ditching after digitizing because of the cost of keeping hard copies that they could no longer allow researchers to actually use for fear of destroying the documents. NB loves paper so an ereader is gonna be a tough sell for him. However, one thing his story underscored for me -- something that had already been underscored by my reading on MobileRead -- is that there is currently a lot of choice out there about which device to buy. And I started thinking about the great battle between VHS versus Betamax in the 1980s and wondering if eventually there will be just one ereader that rules them all? Will one format eventually be adopted so that we'll eventually have a choice of which brand we buy but they'll all be using the same format?
Anstance@MyPhantomTheMemoir.Com

[Ervserver]

exactly, I think its their mission to create controversy

Originally Posted by fugazied

Well most of the articles in the new yorker read like a harsh critique with tongue in cheek. They hate on a lot of stuff and only love two or three things in the world.