tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post9071515657073783451..comments2023-07-17T23:10:02.228+10:00Comments on Discombobula: E-Books versus Book BooksSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-56001338762758100092014-07-08T12:46:04.844+10:002014-07-08T12:46:04.844+10:00I mostly read real books but have lately been borr...I mostly read real books but have lately been borrowing my hubby's Kindle to read some series that are not available as hard books. I thought I'd hate it but actually it is great! Yesterday the power was out here and it got so dark with big storm clouds overhead, but i could read anyway just by upping the backlight. :) <br /><br />I also appreciate the technology since I could publish one of my own novels to Amazon as kindle only and save myself the difficulties of finding an agent/publisher, something I am not yet well enough to manage. <br /><br />One warning, though, beware of leaving the wifi on. I bet it would affect you badly like it does me. I even muscle-test better for its use with the backlight right, off so only use it in 'emergencies'. Keechyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508060247369251383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-91771333075008535492014-06-22T20:12:58.763+10:002014-06-22T20:12:58.763+10:00Both. Like you, I love the tactile experience of a...Both. Like you, I love the tactile experience of actual books, and have many which I've read time and time again, as their creased spines show. I could never read poetry on the Kindle. I tend to read fiction, especially mysteries, on the Kindle - so for example all the Gamache stories by Louise Penny are on the Kindle, not hard copy. It does frustrate me sometimes not being able to flip back easily through the pages to remind myself of what a character said. If I had completely unlimited shelf space, I would buy more physical books and save the Kindle for travelling.Ted Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03614757494008500523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-55880702581312133942014-06-21T13:14:21.223+10:002014-06-21T13:14:21.223+10:00Ah interesting timing. I just last week got my fir...Ah interesting timing. I just last week got my first e-reader, a Kindle. I have some Wool-by-Hugh-Howey spinoff short stories that I got free on Amazon to read. I like how cheap e-books are. Plus sometimes I get books from the library and they have dubious marks on them. And having recently read The Luminaries and The Orenda and with the supermassivegiant Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell weighing down my bedside table, my arms are ready for a rest. And another thing, if I read Improving Books I like to scribble on them with a pencil. Kindles don't take kindly (pardon t.p.) to pencils.<br />But I also do like the feel of a book. and it's impossible to read Brian Selznick's books on an e-reader - well any graphic or graphic-heavy novels I suppose. Both, in summary, we need both...E.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09525989951162501357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-74894213909904020032014-06-20T22:41:23.486+10:002014-06-20T22:41:23.486+10:00I'm a paper book lover, through and through.
T...I'm a paper book lover, through and through.<br />There's a kind of sentimental, romantic intimacy when curling up in an old comfy chair, with a cup of tea, clutching an old friend with yellowing pages and slightly musty scent that can never be recaptured digitally.<br />I have huge reference books that would be a pain in the arse trying to sift through on a small screen, but is an absolute delight, flipping through myriad pages searching for one thing, but getting lost down a rabbit hole when distracted by another beautiful image. Great way to while away an afternoon.<br />And, bookcases lined with hundreds of paperback and hard spines are very sexy and inviting, to me :)Vickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16023748614942747415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-28027354937264513582014-06-20T21:17:44.812+10:002014-06-20T21:17:44.812+10:00It's such an amazing thing, isn't it, this...It's such an amazing thing, isn't it, this being able to carry dozens of books everywhere. I mean, awesomely awesome!Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-40232546551261076692014-06-19T15:54:37.831+10:002014-06-19T15:54:37.831+10:00I am a fan of my Kindle...I have one of the old-fa...I am a fan of my Kindle...I have one of the old-fashioned black and white ones, and I love that I can carry around dozens of books everywhere I go, and that I can read it out in the sunshine because it's e-ink, and the battery lasts for-ev-er. . But, there's something about having real books on the bookshelf...Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.com