Print vs. EBooks
I recently purchased a Kindle, which is Amazon's ebook that allows you to download books and keep them on a cloud, like a digital library, presumably forever.
The only downside of an ebook is that illustrations are horrible, and if you feel the need to jump around the text of a book, it can take longer than if you simply held the print copy in your hands. Recently I have read of some rejecting the entire concept of the ebook, not because it is an inferior way to read a book, but in that there is something disconcerting about the entire ebook phenomena. The image is one of publishers getting everyone on ebooks and then altering texts or eliminating certain books altogether in order to serve some governmental/Bilderberg Group social engineering plan. How does the group feel about ebook: a good addition that may in some cases replace your library, or is there a truly nefarious downside to it all? |
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I have no problem with them, although I still like the feel of paper, pages and even the unique smell that some books offer. The only reason I don't have an e-reader is because I hate spending money, and dropping $15 on a book I want feels less ####ty than dropping $100+ in one sitting. I'll own one at some point, no doubt, especially considering the absolutely #### quality of some books I've bought recently.
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I think eReaders get too little credit for sparking a revival in not only reading, but writing. I imagine in due time we'll look back on this era as another Golden Age in literature - when countless unknown scribblers made their works known, when an alternative to traditional publishing ushered in revolutionary new voices, when libraries were carried in the palm of ones hand, etc.
. . . and a large portion of the credit will be due to eReaders, eBooks, and easy access self publishing. |
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Hate them.
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Having an increasing percentage of my book-hoard in electronic form is necessary if I am going to be able to live in an affordable (i.e., small) place and retire sooner rather than later, which I am hellbent on doing.
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I have a paperwhite (I believe that's its nickname) kindle, and I use it sometime to test the water. I will definitely buy the hard copies of my favorite authors, but I won't waste money on one-timer or traveling books.
I don't hold printed books as sacred because sometime they stink, and sometime their yellow color or texture make me want to throw piss and gasoline on them. However, I agree that certain styles are lost on the e-book. I cannot read Cioran, Celine, or Ligotti on them. |
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All ebooks are free and you can find them everywhere. Biographies, art-books, essays, science... In e-format, I can read only non-fiction.
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Art books and comics are especially lousy on kindle. Especially for looking at large panoramic images. I love electronic devices for image viewing but a regular image viewer program on a large screen is better.
Justin- don't we need to support some dead authors, even the big ones? So that the best stuff stays in circulation, that it leads on to more printing of lesser known dead authors (even legends who don't sell well), so people doing important translation, editing and additional material can keep doing that stuff? |
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