Bought my first ereader and I miss real books already! - Page 4

Lady Fitzgerald · 11-15-2010, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Oh. You mean I was supposed to dust, before?

No. It means you just plant carrots and potatoes in the dust.

Lady Fitzgerald · 11-15-2010, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Wouldn't want to get your kindle wet.

First time I heard it called that!

greencat · 11-15-2010, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Connallmac

I'm not missing paper books at all. I look forward to improvements in ereader technology, but after a year and half with ereaders there really is no going back to paper for me. My next project is to get my wife to make the leap to a Kindle so we can cut down on the clutter even further!

That would only work in our household if there was the Kindle equivalent of women's shoes. e-Shoes anyone?

ProfCrash · 11-15-2010, 03:22 PM

Nope. I have read one paper book since I got my Kindle 2 years ago, my niece wanted me to read a Warrior Cat book and I was not going to pay for it. I did not like holding the book. It felt heavy and cumbersome.

I love reading my e-books. I love having 400+ books with me where ever I go. It is great.

shanghaichica · 11-15-2010, 04:00 PM

I dont miss real books. They are bulky and they get tiring after a while because I have to keep the book open. Plus I can't read while washing up, cooking or doing the ironing like I can with my ereader.

lack · 11-15-2010, 11:18 PM

hi and good day, stodge

I just had mine for a couple of weeks, too. And still have 4 more pbooks to read.

It was never a choice, IMO. I will always like pbooks. But I also love my ebooks.
The part of world where I live will take longer to switch, if the switch will ever happen, so I think I will still buy pbooks from time to time.

So no guilt, at least for me.

isis · 11-15-2010, 11:25 PM

I havent even bought my first ebook reader yet and I can't wait to get rid of my book in my house.
I used to buy a lot of books from charity shops and I was forever washing my hands lol

Cant wait to get going xxx much love to you all xxx

Seanette · 11-16-2010, 02:16 AM

I still find p-books useful for situations like tub reading, and not everything I want is in e-book format and/or within my budget to replace.

Geyer · 11-16-2010, 02:48 AM

I still love printed books, but the convenience and availability of my e-book reader have made e-books my preferred way to read new fiction. Reference books and a lot of nonfiction books work better in print, and there are a lot of older fiction titles from the 50s to the 90s that aren't available in e-book versions and probably won't be, so I'll be keeping my printed books for at least another decade or so and probably continuing to buy additional ones as well.

Ohgo · 11-16-2010, 02:55 AM

Well, I kind of understand your feeling

There is this feeling about paper books ebooks don't have!
But more importantly, I think it goes for the features too. Real books are faster to flip, and highlighting with colors is also easy. Ebook readers tend to be slow, and most of them still don't have color display.

Personally I still like normal paper for textbooks/references, for the reasons mentioned above. Novels and comics are very enjoyable on my reader though. So up to this point, they fit each other pretty well.

boxcorner · 11-16-2010, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by pendragginp

For me it isn't an either/or ... because I just love books, I still love them in any form at all.

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

It's not an all or nothing thing for me ... I can have my cake and eat it too

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Originally Posted by mr ploppy

I don't think having an ebook reader precludes people from buying/reading real books ... I bought an ebook reader primarily to read books that don't exist in paper form ... I tend to alternate between reading an ebook and reading a real book, mainly because I have plenty of both that I haven't got around to reading yet ...

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Originally Posted by kennyc

... I think there are still certain advantages to paper books ... e.g. flipping through and finding some section to read) etc.

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

E-books are wonderful, but having an e-reader doesn't mean that you can't read/buy paper books when you want to. It will be even more pleasurable when you do!

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Originally Posted by mish

No, because I don't see it as a case of either one or the other. I have both ebooks and pbooks and I don't plan on giving up either... I enjoy them both equally. My ebooks are just a part of my entire library of books, whether they be e or p ...

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Originally Posted by Geyer

I still love printed books ... Reference books and a lot of nonfiction books work better in print, and there are a lot of older fiction titles from the 50s to the 90s that aren't available in e-book versions and probably won't be, so I'll be keeping my printed books for at least another decade or so and probably continuing to buy additional ones as well.

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Originally Posted by Ohgo

... Real books are faster to flip, and highlighting with colors is also easy. Ebook readers tend to be slow, and most of them still don't have color display. Personally I still like normal paper for textbooks/references, for the reasons mentioned above. Novels ... are very enjoyable on my reader though. So ... they fit each other pretty well.

That's how I feel about it.

astrangerhere · 11-16-2010, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Hey! Congrats. Come to think of it me too.... I think I got my 505 in about Aug of last year...whenever I joined here ...ah Sept 1....

You average 34 posts a day... I'm not sure if I should be impressed or not...

As to the OP comment, I don't miss DTBs at all. I have managed to replace almost my entire library, save for my law texts, and donated all of the books to a hospital for thier children and long term patients libraries.

kennyc · 11-16-2010, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by astrangerhere

You average 34 posts a day... I'm not sure if I should be impressed or not...

As to the OP comment, I don't miss DTBs at all. I have managed to replace almost my entire library, save for my law texts, and donated all of the books to a hospital for thier children and long term patients libraries.

Of course you should be impressed.

and give karma too!

kindlekitten · 11-16-2010, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by HistoryWes

I feel just the opposite. When I buy a paper book now, I feel a real and deep regret that I didn't get an ebook. I recently bought a great reference book because the hardbound edition was the same price as the Kindle edition (and it wasn't available as an ebook anywhere else). The book is great, but now it's sitting there, looking at me, on the coffee table because there's no room in any of the book cases.

if you have books looking at you, there's probably some other stuff going on

Lo Zeno · 11-16-2010, 12:02 PM

I still read paper books sometimes, out of nostalgia mostly. The same nostalgia that makes me take the dust off my old Commodore64 to play again very old games, and the same nostalgia that makes me play with my old toys of when I was a kid every now and then

Feels good, but only because it's nostalgia, of course

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11-15-2010, 03:22 PM	#49
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Nope. I have read one paper book since I got my Kindle 2 years ago, my niece wanted me to read a Warrior Cat book and I was not going to pay for it. I did not like holding the book. It felt heavy and cumbersome. I love reading my e-books. I love having 400+ books with me where ever I go. It is great.

11-15-2010, 04:00 PM	#50
shanghaichica Guru Posts: 991 Karma: 5782970 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Scribe,Kindle Oasis 3, iPad Pro 11,15 Pro Max,iPad mini 7,colorsoft	I dont miss real books. They are bulky and they get tiring after a while because I have to keep the book open. Plus I can't read while washing up, cooking or doing the ironing like I can with my ereader.

11-15-2010, 11:18 PM	#51
lack Zealot Posts: 113 Karma: 44088 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Osaka, Japan Device: PRS-650	hi and good day, stodge I just had mine for a couple of weeks, too. And still have 4 more pbooks to read. It was never a choice, IMO. I will always like pbooks. But I also love my ebooks. The part of world where I live will take longer to switch, if the switch will ever happen, so I think I will still buy pbooks from time to time. So no guilt, at least for me.

11-15-2010, 11:25 PM	#52
isis Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Chester UK Device: Sony, Elonex, Imagin	I havent even bought my first ebook reader yet and I can't wait to get rid of my book in my house. I used to buy a lot of books from charity shops and I was forever washing my hands lol Cant wait to get going xxx much love to you all xxx

11-16-2010, 02:16 AM	#53
Seanette Addict Posts: 254 Karma: 834 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sacramento, CA Device: Samsung Galaxy s3 (Android 4.4.2), iPad 2, Win10 laptop	I still find p-books useful for situations like tub reading, and not everything I want is in e-book format and/or within my budget to replace.

11-16-2010, 02:48 AM	#54
Geyer Member Posts: 13 Karma: 1284 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern California Device: Sony Clie, Sony Reader 300, iPod Touch, Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 2013	I still love printed books, but the convenience and availability of my e-book reader have made e-books my preferred way to read new fiction. Reference books and a lot of nonfiction books work better in print, and there are a lot of older fiction titles from the 50s to the 90s that aren't available in e-book versions and probably won't be, so I'll be keeping my printed books for at least another decade or so and probably continuing to buy additional ones as well.

11-16-2010, 02:55 AM	#55
Ohgo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: PRS-350	Well, I kind of understand your feeling There is this feeling about paper books ebooks don't have! But more importantly, I think it goes for the features too. Real books are faster to flip, and highlighting with colors is also easy. Ebook readers tend to be slow, and most of them still don't have color display. Personally I still like normal paper for textbooks/references, for the reasons mentioned above. Novels and comics are very enjoyable on my reader though. So up to this point, they fit each other pretty well.

11-16-2010, 12:02 PM	#60
Lo Zeno Addict Posts: 202 Karma: 4379 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Italy Device: Hanlin V3 (with lBook firmware & OpenInkPot)	I still read paper books sometimes, out of nostalgia mostly. The same nostalgia that makes me take the dust off my old Commodore64 to play again very old games, and the same nostalgia that makes me play with my old toys of when I was a kid every now and then Feels good, but only because it's nostalgia, of course

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