Why e-books? - Page 5

Jack Torrance · 03-16-2016, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by NNolan

I switched to ebooks when the arthritis in my thumbs made it difficult to hold anything bigger than a 250 page paperback.

This ^ 11.22.63 made my hands hurt so much I bought my K2 and haven't looked back.

Tattncat · 03-16-2016, 12:38 AM

Storage space and traveling, eBooks are (for me) the only way to go.

Barbara1955 · 03-16-2016, 12:51 AM

I didn't even know what a E-Reader was till I started hearing about Nooks! On Advice I went with them over Kindles By Mistake. I wanted something I could use with Public Library. 2nd mistake I didn't know my Library Didn't have any e-books! They do now cause of all the hell I raised

Any way Both Nooks Broke out of box No Library use.. I gave up. That was in Oct 2010. Ordered my 1st K3 Jan 18th 2011.
1st was With both of us having Bad backs & spent a Month recovering from a move...
2nd when reading it became harder & harder for me to hold the book. Dropped a few on poor Katie got so she refused to sleep with me! 3nd I switched to audiobooks a 1 -2 years before I just plain Missed Reading!
In addition to the above reasons my Eyes are Enjoying the Larger print my Body enjoys Not having ALL that extra weight to hold!

bgalbrecht · 03-16-2016, 01:04 AM

Don't any of you miss that wonderful smell of musty old books?

murg · 03-16-2016, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

Don't any of you miss that wonderful smell of musty old books?

Nope.

Barbara1955 · 03-16-2016, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

Don't any of you miss that wonderful smell of musty old books?

Nope as I still have Newspapers around, Don't read them..for the dogs

jbjb · 03-16-2016, 03:29 AM

As well as many of the reasons already given in this thread (principally storage space and portability), I also really appreciate the easy searchability of ebooks. I have a dreadful memory for names, so when a minor character reappears after a long absence I sometimes find it handy to do a quick search for earlier appearances of the name to remind myself who it is.

/JB

meeera · 03-16-2016, 03:52 AM

Hand arthritis and the need for adjustable font size, storage space and dust, carrying one little reader instead of two books everywhere I go, travelling (ditto but eight or nine books for a week away = they need their own bag), reading in my own font, search and collections features, borrowing library books without schlepping to the library, access to far more books than is available in paper in my town, Netgalley reading ... the list goes on.

Accessibility is the killer feature for me.

meeera · 03-16-2016, 03:55 AM

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Actually, eBooks do take physical storage space. A flash drive, a hard drive, a CD, a DVD, blu-ray, Reader, phone, tablet, etc are all physical. You have to have someplace to store your eBooks. And that place is physical.

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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

And all those things together take up the space of less than 20 books.

More like two books, assuming a portable hard drive. One if you don't have a tablet. (Who uses CDs and DVDs anymore?)

church mouse · 03-16-2016, 05:23 AM

Paper books and I fell out - perhaps irrevocably. I mistreated them badly; threw them in to my bag, folded back the pages, I was even known to break a spine or two. In return, my books would spit out my bookmark so I lost my reading page, or even discard a page or two (my aforementioned breaking of spines may have contributed to that somewhat). Eventually, I gave up reading.

As an act of desperation, to get me in to reading again, someone kindly bought me an e-reader when Sony launched its range in the UK. I was hooked immediately and reading and I became bosom palls again.

MikeB1972 · 03-16-2016, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Katie1

Nope as I still have Newspapers around, Don't read them..for the dogs

Damn clever dogs.

MikeB1972 · 03-16-2016, 05:47 AM

All those arguments over indie v tradpub and not one person so far has said they got an ereader to read indie novels

Got my first one for holiday reading.

fjtorres · 03-16-2016, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeB1972

All those arguments over indie v tradpub and not one person so far has said they got an ereader to read indie novels

Well, not directly.
Read through the comments again and you'll see price mentioned a few times. Fanfic once or twice. Library ebooks. PD a lot. Avid readers get a lot more bang for their reading buck via digital, which justifies the expense of a reader.

(Besides, the prominent Indies show up in print often enough that it's not a big driver by itself. Not yet, anyway.)

The causality tends to run the other way--first you get into ebooks, then you discover all those new voices. It's the main reason the establishment is ticked at Amazon: all those cheap(er) books eating away at their second and third tier sellers. The Pattersons and Kings get their sales no matter what but for the rest...

meeera · 03-16-2016, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by fjtorres

Well, not directly.
Read through the comments again and you'll see price mentioned a few times. Fanfic once or twice. Library ebooks. PD a lot. Avid readers get a lot more bang for their reading buck via digital, which justifies the expense of a reader.

Yep - and I said "access to far more books than is available in paper in my town".

The indies I read are sometimes available on paper, but by mail order only - why do that when I could buy instantly online?

Oh and - my only local paper bookshop is inaccessible.

DiapDealer · 03-16-2016, 09:34 AM

I did it because of all the cool kids were doing it and I didn't want them to think I was a loser.

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03-16-2016, 12:38 AM	#62
Tattncat Bookworm Posts: 673 Karma: 1029391 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Device: Nook Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab3, Sony PRS700, Sony PRS505	Storage space and traveling, eBooks are (for me) the only way to go.

03-16-2016, 12:51 AM	#63
Barbara1955 Non-Techy Posts: 4,454 Karma: 15499273 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: WV---USA Device: Samsung Cell Phone & Amazon Fires & Kobo eReaders	I didn't even know what a E-Reader was till I started hearing about Nooks! On Advice I went with them over Kindles By Mistake. I wanted something I could use with Public Library. 2nd mistake I didn't know my Library Didn't have any e-books! They do now cause of all the hell I raised Any way Both Nooks Broke out of box No Library use.. I gave up. That was in Oct 2010. Ordered my 1st K3 Jan 18th 2011. 1st was With both of us having Bad backs & spent a Month recovering from a move... 2nd when reading it became harder & harder for me to hold the book. Dropped a few on poor Katie got so she refused to sleep with me! 3nd I switched to audiobooks a 1 -2 years before I just plain Missed Reading! In addition to the above reasons my Eyes are Enjoying the Larger print my Body enjoys Not having ALL that extra weight to hold!

03-16-2016, 01:04 AM	#64
bgalbrecht Wizard Posts: 1,806 Karma: 13399999 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: US Device: Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD, Kindle 4	Don't any of you miss that wonderful smell of musty old books?

03-16-2016, 03:29 AM	#67
jbjb Somewhat clueless Posts: 739 Karma: 7747724 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, iPhone 6 Plus	As well as many of the reasons already given in this thread (principally storage space and portability), I also really appreciate the easy searchability of ebooks. I have a dreadful memory for names, so when a minor character reappears after a long absence I sometimes find it handy to do a quick search for earlier appearances of the name to remind myself who it is. /JB

03-16-2016, 03:52 AM	#68
meeera Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,659 Karma: 66420972 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, iPadMini4, iPad4, MBP; support other Kobo/Kindles	Hand arthritis and the need for adjustable font size, storage space and dust, carrying one little reader instead of two books everywhere I go, travelling (ditto but eight or nine books for a week away = they need their own bag), reading in my own font, search and collections features, borrowing library books without schlepping to the library, access to far more books than is available in paper in my town, Netgalley reading ... the list goes on. Accessibility is the killer feature for me.

03-16-2016, 05:23 AM	#70
church mouse Evangelist Posts: 482 Karma: 5277078 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: UK Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Clara HD, Kobo H2O, Boox Poke 2	Paper books and I fell out - perhaps irrevocably. I mistreated them badly; threw them in to my bag, folded back the pages, I was even known to break a spine or two. In return, my books would spit out my bookmark so I lost my reading page, or even discard a page or two (my aforementioned breaking of spines may have contributed to that somewhat). Eventually, I gave up reading. As an act of desperation, to get me in to reading again, someone kindly bought me an e-reader when Sony launched its range in the UK. I was hooked immediately and reading and I became bosom palls again.

03-16-2016, 05:47 AM	#72
MikeB1972 Gnu Posts: 1,222 Karma: 15625359 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: UK Device: BeBook,JetBook Lite,PRS-300-350-505-650,+ran out of space to type	All those arguments over indie v tradpub and not one person so far has said they got an ereader to read indie novels Got my first one for holiday reading.

03-16-2016, 09:34 AM	#75
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,552 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I did it because of all the cool kids were doing it and I didn't want them to think I was a loser.

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