You could hook it up to your computer, download any PDF you wanted (I usually used the Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg to get old books for free), and you could view it in full resolution.
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 ...
Same here. The books stay at home but I take the Nook everywhere.
Your dead tree comment is interesting to me in the context of, yet another sign of liberal snowflake hypocrisy. If you are a tree-hugging libtard and buy ANY hardcopy books or magazines...you are a traitor to your “beliefs.”
I’m sure a protest against trump is in order.
I was never a big e book user, but I seem to recall that originally ebooks were considerably less expensive than print, on the scale of a fourth the cost perhaps?
Now they cost too much and frankly are difficult to read.
Ebooks can be modified just like ‘free’ music songs are often changed and put back. They are distorted.
The integrity of electronic software products is poor. A bored kid in the den all day, mixes, modifies, pdfs, mp3 & mp4. A checksum only reflects that file, good or bad.
Same here. I read a lot but can’t stand the clutter. Thrown away and donated hundreds of books. Books for me the last 8 years.
You cannot spam printed books.
You cannot hack printed books.
No battery required.
No software update, only your increased learned lexicon.
Yes, that is my recollection too. There was a whole lot of collusion going on to artificially inflate the price of ebooks. Of course Apple was the ringleader and they were fined 450 millon dollars for their role."I was never a big e book user, but I seem to recall that originally ebooks were considerably less expensive than print, on the scale of a fourth the cost perhaps?"
Nonetheless, the price of ebooks has never returned to their original pricing. And I'm not about to spend $12 on a can of air.
LOL! But you can recycle dead tree editions, don’t forget. In any case, I still think ebooks are priced way too high. Dead trees have to be printed, distributed, warehoused, shipped, returned, remaindered, destroyed. Ebooks have much lower associated costs, but that’s not reflected in most selling prices. Maybe millenialls have figured that out, too.
Perhaps the biggest problem of ebooks is that they are unable to properly display mathematical and scientific material. There aren’t any math books of note published in ebook format because of the difficulty of making the equations display properly. Same goes for engineering and science texts too. This is a show stopper for me.
“I’ve never seen the conflict. I love real books - and have thousands.
But I also like the idea of being able to carry a thousand ebooks in my pocket for those times when I’m away from my library and I have a few free minutes.
And when I am travelling doubly so.”
I agree - and the various devices used for reading will only get better over time.
I belong to a service where authors often give away ebooks to promote their work - bookbub.com. I have so much light reading from that I only rarely buy fiction.
“EBook readers never improved. No dual page versions, and no color!”
You’re looking in the wrong place. The new, improved versions are called “iPads”. There are also many Android tablets around.
I’m not sure of the size of a Kobo Mini but I just picked up a 5” Android phone, new, for $10. I didn’t “activate” it with any wireless carrier so there aren’t any other fees.
Go to the “store” and find one of many eBook reader apps.
About the only downside is battery life because of the different screen technology.
I just don’t get e-books. When I read, it’s an escape from technology. Besides that, it’s real nice to have the book in hand to look back on earlier information.
This again ? This is based PURELY on TradPub numbers. Indie ebooks continue to boom, but Traditional Publishers demand prices sometimes higher than the paperback price, for the ebook edition. So, people aren’t buying TradPub ebooks.
You might note that Amazon, the largest seller of Indie e-books, is NEVER mentioned. . .
Last year found aboriginal set of O’Briens master and commander series used book store. Had been looking for the set since early 80’s. Took me three months to read.
Although I am considering getting ebook device, as is said elsewhere on thread, easier to carry one device with many books when travelling, ah but the feel of a hard bound book nothing compares
“Perhaps the biggest problem of ebooks is that they are unable to properly display mathematical and scientific material.”
That is demonstrably incorrect...
https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~shapiro/507/book.pdf
The first ten pages provide many examples. BTW, “Classical Mechanics” in particular is a great example of ebook value and portability. :-)
Paper books certainly have their virtues as well, the primary one being “no batteries required”.
And younger folks tend not to have the visual impairments that make ereaders and ebooks a blessing for so many folks.
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Exactly. I’ve never understood people who love to feel and smell paper books. Good Grief. It’s just paper. Ebooks are a life-saver to folks with poor vision.
I do not believe this. Written by print media.
I use my ipad as a e-book reader and it’s sure nice to be able to adjust the font to make things easier on these aging eyes.
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