Posted on 04/25/2021 12:25:16 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Much hullabaloo was made of being able to read books electronically, such as on Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc.
For a while, I became an ardent adopter of the concept. I would download my books to read electronically. For a few years, I would do most of my reading this way. But it never did feel the same as the tactile experience of reading a physical book.
I'm one who like to flip back a few pages to re-read or to reference the maps and what not in the beginning of the book. It was always cumbersome to do this electronically. Technically you are able to move around the book in electronic fashion but for me, it was always a clumsy affair. You end up fussing around with it for way too long while running down your battery.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. But now I'm back on the train to work with a physical book and my Kindle is gathering dust in my laptop case along with the thumb USB drives that I have basically stopped using as well.
Call me old-fashioned but I just like the book experience better.
I love reading an actual ‘book’.
Good grief, did I really just say that?!
I have books I pull out and re-read periodically because I love the book, and you can open to passages you prefer.
I love the cover, the flyleaf with the picture and info about the author, when it’s all down on Kindle or something it’s just not the same.
I have a treasure trove of antiquarian books, that can never be said about electronic versions.
My position is that books are more interactive, because you can write on the pages or highlight important concepts.
I think for consumer reading, stuff you enjoy but you do not need to remember much, I would use an e-reader.
But for stuff that you want to remember forever, I would buy the book form.
The consumer stuff can be changed on the fly by the publishers,but the book form cannot.
When we home-schooled the kids, I bought a Kobo because most of the books on their reading list were out of copyright and I could download then for free.
I do prefer paper books for long term.
Another advantage of real paper books is it’s not as easy for the libtard commies to change what is written. Look at what happened to wiki-pedia among other online sources of information and stories...
Once you have a hardcopy book it’s mostly immutable.
I prefer real books by far. Especially books from the days when they used to have editors
I haven’t touched a printed book in years. Reading on my iPad is perfect and I can get pretty much any book I want. Over the past year I started streaming audiobooks while at work and even at home while in the garage, etc.
I like reading paper books better, but a Kindle is nice for traveling. You can fit about a pickup load of books into your back pocket. At home, though, it’s bound books for me nearly all the time.
I think it depends on what sort of book you’re reading...certainly anything with lots of pictures, maps, charts and such are much nicer as physical books, and that’s more likely the sort of book you would want to keep on your bookshelf. But if it’s just a throwaway novel, I appreciate that it only exists digitally on my iPad. Also, as we get older and READING LIGHT becomes more important, a digital book is just easier to read.
Books will always be my choice.
There is something very disconnected about on-line book reading.
I never could get comfortable with electronic books. Since I drive long hours for work, I do take in a lot of audio books on the open highway. I always have an audio book in my player and a paper book on the nightstand. Lighter fare is good while driving. I’ve found that anything requiring studious attention is best read on paper.
Just add sunshine and you are ready to read! I’ve hiked to far away places just to sit down with the soft rustle of nature’s background noise just to enjoy a book there.
Books over electronic all the way.
Most books I read, I give away. Books need to be read. Few books would I want to read twice. I kept my college textbooks and will keep them for a while.
I’ve been temporarily without tv for almost 3 months now and have had plenty of time to read.
That's it, brother - come back to real books, they've been here waiting for you.
Nothing like grabbing a cup of coffee on a gloomy day and curling up with....a Kindle?
I have more actual books than I do Kindle books. I prefer actual books, and buy most of them used on Amazon, and occasionally get them from paperback swap.com. I usually read from 4 different books during the day, and then read from two on my Kindle at bedtime...all different genres.
My eyes like the kindles ability to change type size. I also like being able to have a couple going at once.
But there is nothing like reading and turning pages.
I love reading the printed page. I loved reading books and newspapers. Back when newspapers were actually worth reading. But now my 20/60 eyesight site means e-books.
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