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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
The E Book market is definitely growing. I won't use them unless, for whatever reason, the world does away with actual books. I'm old school, I want something that I can hold. I agree with all the reasons but I would think a 6th reason why E-books will never completely replace the actual book is the author can't autograph it.
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Slide Special user 533 Posts |
After moving 3 times in the last 3 years, I'm pretty much done with real books. Too *** heavy to move. I'm much happier replacing all the media I own with digital books.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
I have mixed feelings. If you could make me an offer to replace all of my books with electronic versions for a reasonable fee, I suppose I would do it.
The points in the article don't bear much weight with me. My bookshelf is simply a mess. I never write in the margins. At any given time I'm reading (at least) five or six books, and I manage to juggle them without needing to be "reminded" to finish them. Point #2 is the one I find most convincing. If I can't easily sort through all my books using a single interface, then I'd find that irritating. |
irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
I still buy "real" books but I also buy some e-books. I find both worlds suit me just fine.
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts |
I've had two massive book sell-offs in my life. When I decided to quit competitive chess for good, I sold nearly 300 chess books. When I decided to change professions from a mathematician (well... math grad student, at least), I sold maybe 200 math books. Each time it was kind of an emotional thing, and it was hard to do. But boy, am I glad I did.
Now I have relatively few books in the house -- mostly magic books and math books I couldn't (or wouldn't) sell. If I could convert those to an electronic format, I would instantly. For all the (putative) downsides mentioned in the article, there are some tremendous upsides to electronic media. Perhaps first and foremost, they're searchable and more easily navigated. Bookmarks just work way better electronically than physically. Second, they're more easily moved. As Bill said above, it's much easier to move 1,000 ebooks across the country (or across the street) than normal books. Third, they don't need any care or feeding. They don't attract mold or paper-eating bugs. They don't fade. They don't get dusty. Fourth, they can do stuff that normal books can't. For example, there are some great opportunities in textbooks (for example) to have interactive content, right in-line with the text. Imagine reading a magic book, and being able to (say) rotate a diagram of the magician's hands, play video of the trick, jump right to a discussion board dedicated to that move, etc. Granted, some of that stuff isn't around yet, but I'm sure it will be, and relatively soon. |
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