Will e-book readers make your library obsolete?

[Spartacus2112]

Part of having a library is the romance...the aesthetics. I get chills when I walk into a house that has a library or built in shelves. There is something about it that is so pure and innocent.
I will be purchasing my reader shortly(finally) but will still have the urge to buy books. My library sells all types of books for .10 each. I simply cannot pass that up.
Both will co-exist peacefully, hopefully successfully, unlike society.
I just realized that I should not even have an opinion as I do not have either a library or reader!

[Jack Tingle]

Come that happy day, come the jubilee, come the great day of fulfillment when all books are available as ebooks, the shelves shall be free! Free of weight, holding down their wooden (or plastic) souls; free of the holy but heavy burdens of wood and words! Hosanna, free the shelves.

...But don't hold your breath.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

[yvanleterrible]

Sorry, I had to take a pause fer supper and the missus required total attention.

Originally Posted by mjh215

Lovely work yvan... I'm a hobbyist woodworker, though I have been my whole life... (My father is a patternmaker) Other then my kitchen cabinets I haven't done anything that elaborate, my hats off to ya...

-MJ

Keep at it, just make your next project more challenging, learn some new technique. BTW Does your father still have a job? Here patternmaking (which is the most challenging job a woodworker can have in industry) has been replaced by CNC machines.

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wow... that's nice. I would pay 15 G for a room like that.

If I could afford a room like that. of course.

BOb

Heh! that room is about the size of my house.

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Ok, make that twenty years

I have this wall in my new house in the loft that is just SCREAMING to be a wall-to-wall bookcase.

Ikea. Don't laugh, their stuff is better and better.

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Oh wow - you have created some gorgeous, goregous stuff. And the marquetry is jaw dropping.

Thank you SNCA. If it were up to me, that's all I'd do... and carving.

Originally Posted by Spartacus2112

Beautiful inlay work! Do you do guitars as well?

When I used to play before that stupid accident, that is what I was aiming to do. But it's a long craft to learn.


By the way all, that picture of the library with the staircase and all that walnut burl and the parquetry... I'd do it fer about 120 G

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by Jack Tingle

Come that happy day, come the jubilee, come the great day of fulfillment when all books are available as ebooks, the shelves shall be free! Free of weight, holding down their wooden (or plastic) souls; free of the holy but heavy burdens of wood and words! Hosanna, free the shelves.

...But don't hold your breath.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

Half the people I know have no idea what an ebook is. Half of those don't want a computer.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

By the way all, that picture of the library with the staircase and all that walnut burl and the parquetry... I'd do it fer about 120 G

If I ever come into the sterling equivilent of that - and have a house it'd fit in (somehow can't see it working in my modern shoebox...), I'll get in touch!

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

If I ever come into the sterling equivilent of that - and have a house it'd fit in (somehow can't see it working in my modern shoebox...), I'll get in touch!

Hurry up! By that day it might go up! Or me too old to .. do..it

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

If I ever come into the sterling equivilent of that - and have a house it'd fit in (somehow can't see it working in my modern shoebox...), I'll get in touch!

Have you been to the Victoria and Albert museum in London?

I dream of going there. It is filled with exquisite furniture that I would love to duplicate, extrapolate and outdo. Oh man! That pond is way too big!!

[TonyR]

Replace it entirely? Not a chance. There are some books I'll want to keep in their print editions, regardless of the availability of ebook copies.

There are, however, plenty of books I've already replaced with ebooks, and plenty more from the shelves that I plan to replace if their publishers ever release ebook editions.

I don't think of the ebooks as replacing my library or making it obsolete. They're part of my library -- the part that's growing the fastest because shelf space isn't an issue with ebooks.

And a good library is never obsolete.


Bests to all,

--tr

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by TonyR

Replace it entirely? Not a chance. There are some books I'll want to keep in their print editions, regardless of the availability of ebook copies.

There are, however, plenty of books I've already replaced with ebooks, and plenty more from the shelves that I plan to replace if their publishers ever release ebook editions.

I don't think of the ebooks as replacing my library or making it obsolete. They're part of my library -- the part that's growing the fastest because shelf space isn't an issue with ebooks.



And a good library is never obsolete.


Bests to all,

--tr

Welcome to MobileRead, Tony. May I suggest you go here

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=49

start a new thread and introduce yourself so we can welcome you properly? We're really quite friendly and helpful.....

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Hurry up! By that day it might go up! Or me too old to .. do..it

The only ways I can think of getting that sort of money quickly would be illegal... don't get too old just yet, 'k?

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Have you been to the Victoria and Albert museum in London?

I dream of going there. It is filled with exquisite furniture that I would love to duplicate, extrapolate and outdo. Oh man! That pond is way too big!!

I've not been there for a while - but mmmm yes - it has some lovely stuff. There are lots and lots of various houses (stately and otherwise) that are open to the public that have gorgeous furniture in them, too... just ripe for the inspiration...

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

I look at that room and see... a lot of space. I don't want to call it "wasted space," but I can think of other things I'd like to do with it besides filling it with shelves. Besides, I'd need 4 times that amount of wallspace to take everything I have boxed up.

I'd hate to think of anyone who has to set a space limit on the amount of books and magazines they can keep (including myself!).

[stevejay]

The worth and measure of the public library is not only measured by the books on a shelf. It is a common meeting place for the community, a collective consciousness of sorts, and lets face it...

Will "story hours" ever be replaced? Can poetry readings or author visits be satisfactorily replaced by webinars? Community and inter-connectedness can not or should not be made obsolete by technologies.

And it continues Fascinating stuff though!

[FizzyWater]

I didn't read the other comments in this thread, so I hope I'm not repeating - but, yeesh! 167? I've got to get some sleep tonight!

Anyway, if I had any cherished and loved printed books, I would still keep those. But all but a handful of my print books are genre, mass-market paperbacks. Romance, mysteries, SF/F...that kind of thing.

Edits:

Oops, got interrupted...

...in 20 years, those old paperbacks would be moldy, flaky, and dusty. I really won't miss them!

[JasonB]

I mostly read only fiction. I don't intend on buying any more physical books of that nature - only eBooks. The exception will be something I really want to read right away, but which isn't available electronically. That said, I have no intention of buying any eBook that I already have in my physical collection. So, my current library will never be replaced. However, I don't see it growing much from this point on.

On the other hand, if I ever want something that is non-fiction, or I want to "collect" old books for the sake of it being a book (something I don't normally do, but which a very nice library like the one in the picture posted to this thread would lead me to do - if I had the time and the money) I would certainly stay with physical books.

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

First of all there aren't enough choices to your poll. You do not allow choices for types of books.
My libraries contain reference books that do not show well on today's readers and browsing them on the device is frustrating. I also have some very old books that have stood the test of time, they have been out of print for at least a century.
I also have some art books with prints of famous paintings and woodworking marvels. They don't even look good on a 20" LCD, when will we get a suitable reader for those?

As for novels, stories and text in general, I agree that a reader is perfect. But in fact I've never kept those for long because I scarcely read a book twice and depart from them regularly.

Last of all, are you out of your mind??!?? I make part of my living building libraries!!!

You do good work. How about focusing more on kitchens?

I'm not getting an E-kitchen.