[New York Times] Will Books Survive Spotify?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by meeera

This analogy is arrant nonsense. It's more like the difference between eating your McD's burger off a china plate at a table vs eating it out of a paper wrapper standing up. Same content, different surroundings/circumstances.

Also decent books (audio, paper or ebook) are more like a real meal. I'm not sure why McD is allowed to call them 'meals'.

[Renate]

I'm enough of a philistine to probably enjoy McDonalds food.
But I don't like the concept or the ubiquitousness so I don't go there.
I can't even think of the last time that I had "fast food".

[lkmiller]

The arrogance is implying that reading is always better than listening. Saying that listening isn't really reading. While I definitely prefer text (ebook or paper), I know other brains work differently. Some crafters talk about concentrating better on an audiobook while doing something with their hands (knitting, spinning, crocheting, etc.) than they would reading the text. And even I find some things easier to take in when heard out loud, like poetry.

I don't get the love for smell or feel of print books. My love of print books is purely as visual objects. Enjoy your petting and sniffing; I just wanna gaze at them.

I also found the description of these forums as harsh amusing. Maybe I've never really been on the receiving end of it here, but I've definitely seen more brutal behavior in other places online (and in person when I was a kid in school).

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

To those who would use "fierce" or "virulent" to describe the defense of opinions on this site: you really should get out more. This forum is absolute milquetoast compared to the majority of the internet (not to mention real life).

Does everyone spend all their time surrounded by people who agree with them about absolutely everything or something?

I've been on a parenting forum discussing Santa. This forum (excluding the P&R section since I've never looked at it) is meek and mild compared to that blistering bit of hellfire.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by ekbell

I've been on a parenting forum discussing Santa. This forum (excluding the P&R section since I've never looked at it) is meek and mild compared to that blistering bit of hellfire.

[DNSB]

Compared to most of the forums I've been involved with, MobileRead's forums are definitely on the meeker side. Even the more opinionated posters haven't threatened me with hellfire for disagreeing with them.

[JBaby]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Has your sister ever tried colors? Sometimes someone with dyslexia can read better with colors then just B/W. I've heard that green text can be good for some.

Colors does nothing for her. Bigger text works best for her. The so called dyslexic fonts don’t help her either.

Originally Posted by Quoth

Urban myth. Actual studies show little (usually too small sample) or no advantage to special fonts or color.
Being able to chose Sans-serif or Serif (depending on person), vary size and spacing is best. Also no drop caps or small caps and no distractions.

Font size is what works best for her. No distractions also helps, but that’s harder with her ADHD.

Originally Posted by Apache

I agree. My wife is dyslexic and loves to read. Special colors and fonts do not help her.
Apache

Yeah my sister spent so much time trying to get colors to work. But it did absolutely nothing.

Originally Posted by lkmiller

The arrogance is implying that reading is always better than listening. Saying that listening isn't really reading. While I definitely prefer text (ebook or paper), I know other brains work differently. Some crafters talk about concentrating better on an audiobook while doing something with their hands (knitting, spinning, crocheting, etc.) than they would reading the text. And even I find some things easier to take in when heard out loud, like poetry.

I don't get the love for smell or feel of print books. My love of print books is purely as visual objects. Enjoy your petting and sniffing; I just wanna gaze at them.

I also found the description of these forums as harsh amusing. Maybe I've never really been on the receiving end of it here, but I've definitely seen more brutal behavior in other places online (and in person when I was a kid in school).

This is so me. If I’m listening to an audiobook I’m almost always knitting or crocheting.

I also don’t get the smell of books. It just reminds me of my dust allergy.

[haertig]

Originally Posted by JBaby

I also don’t get the smell of books.

If you can smell them, doesn't that usually mean mold and mildew?

[Aleron Ives]

New books have a paper smell that is definitely not the same as the smell of mold.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

New books have a paper smell that is definitely not the same as the smell of mold.

Glue.

[rkomar]

I don't get the confusion here. People associate smells with feelings based on past events. If you noticed the smell of books while greatly enjoying reading in the past, then smelling that odor again will put you into a similar mood. It is not the odor itself that matters, but the emotions it triggers. I'm more mystified at those who don't experience this reaction than those that do.

[DiapDealer]

I have many memories that are triggered by particular smells whenever they are encountered. Books/reading just aren't among those memories triggered by smell for me. Rarely did a book get close enough to my nose to smell it while reading them. And literally burying my nose in one didn't seem like normal behavior to me.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Glue.

And we don't want to sniff glue.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by rkomar

I don't get the confusion here. People associate smells with feelings based on past events. If you noticed the smell of books while greatly enjoying reading in the past, then smelling that odor again will put you into a similar mood. It is not the odor itself that matters, but the emotions it triggers. I'm more mystified at those who don't experience this reaction than those that do.

I do experience it with the smells I find pleasant (fresh baking, recently mowed grass, greenery after rain, chocolate and so on). I've never found the smell of books (new or old) pleasant, in fact I actively dislike it, even though I've been a voracious reader since early childhood and always greatly enjoyed reading. But for some reason I don't associate this enjoyment with either the feel or smell of paper books - only with the content itself.

[jackm8]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I've never found the smell of books (new or old) pleasant,

I do. I particularly like old, old book, or fresh new ones. I associate the smell with my elementary school library, and the very first books that were bought for me in the library by my mother (Enid Blyton). They're up there with dry summer forests, fresh winter snowy alps, and roasted chestnuts in the autumn.