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View Poll Results: When Was The Last Time That You Read A PBook?
Why, today of course! 48 27.59%
Just this week, mate! 25 14.37%
I declare! Some time earlier this month, I s'pose. 22 12.64%
Hmm...I think it was no longer than six months ago... 17 9.77%
A point of time exactly between 182.621099 days and 365.242199 days, on the dot! 10 5.75%
If you absolutely *must* know, last year. 14 8.05%
It was a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. 30 17.24%
What is this "paper" that you speak of? 8 4.60%
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Old 11-30-2011, 06:51 PM   #46
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So far over 1/3 of us have read a pbook this week. More than I expected.
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Old 11-30-2011, 11:22 PM   #47
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I last read a pbook at the beginning of this month. I probably would have read more of them, but they're mostly all packed away now in preparation for a move. Normally I read more pbooks than ebooks in a month, though.
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Old 12-01-2011, 08:04 AM   #48
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So far over 1/3 of us have read a pbook this week. More than I expected.
I would have thought that the proportion would have been even more than that. But then I am more concerned with the book [content] than I am the delivery format.
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Old 12-01-2011, 08:11 AM   #49
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I don't like the physical experience of reading a dead-tree book any more. Ebook reading is much more attractive.

But I did start reading a dtbook just over a month ago when I was having a sort-out of dt books that I still have. I chucked it out after reading a few chapters. There was a reason why it had languished unread on the shelf for so long.

I don't buy dtbooks any more apart from cookery books.
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Old 12-01-2011, 02:17 PM   #50
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For myself, over six months ago (in the spring), I read a library hardcover because it wasn't available as an eBook. I no longer purchase pBooks for myself, I only borrow them, for comfort/space/clutter reasons.

For my children, today, yesterday and every day since they were old enough to pay attention. We own and borrow many children's pBooks. I do read eBooks to them, but the selection is still pretty small compared to our library's generous selection.

On a separate note with pBooks, I have always had issues with the various formats, but now that eBooks are an option, I have no motivation to put up with them.

I loathe reading hardcovers - I find them heavy, uncomfortable and difficult to hold open while reading in bed.
I tolerate reading trade paperbacks, as long as they have the nicer paper that hardcovers use.
I prefer the size of the MMPB, but I hate the narrow margins, how I have to crack the spine in order to read close to the gutter, and I can't stand newsprint paper, especially if it is an older one that has begun disintegrating.
I loathe reading newspaper - the texture and ink transfer are very annoying.
I like reading magazines, but any that have a female audience are ruined by the stupid perfume inserts.

So my reading for the near and distant future is likely to be 99% digital. I can wait for any title - there's plenty on my TBR list to choose from.
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Old 12-01-2011, 02:46 PM   #51
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Horror!
I just realized that my Christmas present for myself this year actually is a paper book! A memoir that isn't available as eBook. Wonder how I'll cope reading it!!
(I had forgotten about it until I was wrapping up the copy I got for my daughter.)
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Old 12-02-2011, 10:11 AM   #52
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eh, sometime in the last month for me, I think. But really, that's only because I'm a student and have to read stuff I can't get as an ebook (or need the paper version to cite page numbers, or something). If I didn't have to do that, I think it would be much longer.
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Old 12-02-2011, 10:45 AM   #53
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I started Lucid Intervals by Stuart Woods in dead-tree format, finished on my NookColor, just so i could increase the print size on demand. I love my reader for that, but I won't recommend the book so hardily.
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Old 12-02-2011, 10:55 AM   #54
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Earlier this month I finally got time to sit down and finish the Chronicles of Narnia. The big paperback version the way it goes story wise starting with the magicians nephew and so on. I haven't read any of them since I was younger and I got it from a friend.
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Earlier this month I finally got time to sit down and finish the Chronicles of Narnia. The big paperback version the way it goes story wise starting with the magicians nephew and so on. I haven't read any of them since I was younger and I got it from a friend.
I wanted to read that as well, as I have only read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Unfortunatly, I lent it to someone who never returned it. I may replace it one day.
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Old 12-02-2011, 12:59 PM   #57
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At some point in 2009, now that I think about it.
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I wonder if it's just that not very many people have last read a pbook between six months and a year ago, or if the option was just too complicated so people chose another.
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I've read 22 pbooks this year (42% of total books read). With the prices as they are and no easy library lending in Canada for Kindles yet I still read a lot of paper.
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