Posted on 03/15/2017 2:26:32 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Readers committed to physical books can give a sigh of relief, as new figures reveal that ebook sales are falling while sales of paper books are growing – and the shift is being driven by younger generations.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I doubt if that is true in America.
Our grandkids, grand nieces/nephews prefer Kindle or other ebooks.
One grandkid goes to a private school and she has zero text books. We bought her the biggest and premium Ipad 3 years ago. All of her text books and reading come via her Ipad.
She carries a thin paper notebook and her I Pad instead of a 40-50 pound backpack loaded with text books and note books.
One of her sibs goes to a different private school. That school requires the IMac and paper books. The kid struggles with a huge backpack weighing 40-50 pounds and has had back aches for two years.
My wife is an avid speed reader. She prefers books, and she checks out 5-7 books a week from our local library. She does not want a Kindle. I prefer a Kindle and have fiction, research books to LS’s book and other Trump books on it.
Our siblings and in laws, who read books prefer the Kindle. One SIL and her husband spend a month in Floriduh every year. Instead of a ton of books she uses her Kindle. Her husband is a news junky, and he takes his Amazon Fire 8 tablet to read their local, state and national news while in Floriduh. He uses it for their emails and messages.
Fortunately, we have two books options, paper or electronic.
Sure you do but it’s just a single wipe.
bkmk
Gotcha beat...we have an almost 300 year old copy of the Magna Carta...like you I love books...they got me thru a difficult childhood, PLUS in an emergency you will always have FUEL. :*)
My Kindle would be useless.
People who claim to love the smell of old books must not be allergic to mildew, like I am.
Funny that there’s so much commentary on this article in a *web* forum. I’m wondering how many “I only read print books” commenters also type and mail letters to editors?
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I still don’t find the appeal of a physical book. I’m more interested in the content of the book and the ease of reading it.
Ebooks are now overpriced. Even young people can recognize that value per dollar isn’t what it used to be.
I bought Ebooks when I could get the ones I wanted for the price of a new or used paperback.
This article motivated me to look a Amazon Kindles.
They all have approx. 6x4” screens, too small for me to struggle to read text on.
A reading area of 6x8” would be doable for me, but I don’t see one of those.
I’ll stick with dead trees for now.
Slightly larger than most paperback books. However, the text was still too small for my wife to comfortably read without magnifying assistance.
So she reset the font size upwards and now reads her Kindle Fire comfortably without any additional magnification. The increased font size remains set on her Kindle for all books that she has; she doesn't need to reset it for each one. The only time that she has to play with it again is when Amazon pushes through a patch/update for the Kindle program and it resets to default. But she just sets it back to her level of font and goes on reading.
When my Kindle Fire warns me it is nearly full, I upload whatever to the Cloud. I haven’t counted, but there are thousands of books there. I can go drag one out whenever I want.
I’ve honestly never looked at the price. Why would you pay more for something that has no production cost?
I read a lot but don’t often buy books. I usually hit the library.
Sometimes I’ll buy a book at the airport.
that reminds me, got a trip next week. Gotta get some reading material.
“Slightly larger than most paperback books. “
I had my eyes lasered some years ago and I went from near-sighted (great for reading) to instant old-man eyes where I need reading and computer glasses. I’m not going to make myself crazier trying to read mass-market paperback “pocket books” any more. It’s hardcovers and trade paperbacks for me now. Or an e-reader of similar size. :)
Agree with your reasons but also like to read in bed and that is much easier with an ebook. Something about the lighting and angle with bifocals just doesn’t work for me with paper books anymore.
Also ebooks save your place and help you search for phrases and/or characters.
“We don’t go anywhere we might have downtime without it.”
Making sure I have downloaded and/or synced my current book from tablet to phone before leaving home is new part of my errand running schedule. :-)
Calibre is the best ebook management program out there. Check it out HERE.
The best Android ebook reader is Moon+ Reader Pro.
Mine highlights just fine. Choice of colors, too.
Highlights stay there no matter what device I open it in. I can read on my phone, pad, laptop or desktop. It knows where I left off, too.
I can change the color of the text to be black on white, white on black, or Sepia.
I can change the font to one of eight choices.
I can change the size of the font to suit my device and/or whether I remembered my reading glasses or not.
I can even change the line spacing.
Best of all, I joined Book Bub and get notified when books I like are discounted or free. Last year I read over 30 books and paid less than $20 for all of them, total. How, pray tell, do ebooks squander any more time than print books?
ICAM!
Just out of curiosity (because I’m getting ready to epublish), what do you see as a fair price?
#9 With the coming thin flexible screens coming out soon, I bet someone will create a dual page “book” with 2 screens.
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