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Kindles and eBooks
...Because I liked the discussion :<
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For me it's the difference between driving sixty miles to buy a book and pressing a button to buy one.
Hmmmm....
I use my kindle for comics, but get most of my books in print.
On the other hand, for me, it's the difference between walking five minutes to the library/fifteen minutes to the bookstore to pay $20 for a book, or paying $250 for a Kindle and having to go through rigamarole to be able to buy books on it.
I actually got my Kindle because I completely ran out of shelf space in my house, then kept buying physical, hardcover novels. I have a few stacks of books sitting around my room now.
I have over a thousand books all shelved on bookcases, books in boxes to be shelved, and still yet more room.
I have... three bookcases proper, plus multiple shelving units I can put books on.
Well, see, my problem is that my parents have both at various times been English teachers and my mom won't throw out or donate any book for any reason, so my family has several walls that are just giant bookcases, and it's still not even vaguely in the neighborhood of enough.
Hey, Nan has forty years of accumulated books, and I have nineteen years of the same.
Although, looking around my room, I see what you mean. I have no shelving space in my room, at all, and I have... wow, six stacks of books just lying around. At least fifty books just on my desk, in its drawers, or next to it.
the Brooklyn Public Library doesn't have eBook lending AFAIK, so dead tree books for me until further notice.
and even then I'd probably just end up amassing a sizable quantity of books that I'll barely read, much like my Steam library.
wait no never mind hahaha
>On the other hand, for me, it's the difference between walking five minutes to the library/fifteen minutes to the bookstore to pay $20 for a book, or paying $250 for a Kindle and having to go through rigamarole to be able to buy books on it.
Fair enough, I'm just trying to point out why digital distribution is important for people stuck in the boonies.
I love physical books but they're not all worth the effort.
Yeah, I can agree.
I just think that the price of an e-Reader is also worth noting. Probably cheaper in the long run, but prohibitively expensive now.
I think the typical figure is you would have to buy 20 books on the e-reader for you to start saving money on book purchases.
Which I would end up doing eventually, but... dat initial cost.
I'd say it's worth every effort if you can put into it.
plastic and circuitry are solid and tangible too.
^ But dragging your finger across a touchscreen isn't the same as taking a page between your fingers and turning it over. Again, I don't want to slag on e-books, and especially in your case, it's entirely understandable, but it's something I would really have to adjust to, personally.
True, it's not the same and all things being equal there's an emotional aspect to physical books that activates the magpie collector part of my brain.
But objectively speaking, what physical books carry are symbols that universally convey information and ereaders are just more efficient at that.
Agreed on that point. It's just weird, to me, is all.
> mfw no-one reads scrolls any longer
I prefer books, but have nothing against e-readers in particular. What does make me sad, though, is all the different book shops going out of business. Kind of funny that video game retail chains keep on chugging, but book shops have gone the way of the dinosaur in much quicker time. And by "funny" I mean "tragic", because I really like book shops but don't care a mite about their video game equivalent.
Basically, what Alex said.
^^This I will completely agree with.
That said the 'game' store I go to that is also a comic/tabletop store is pretty sweet and has managed to survive for about a decade of my life at least.
But most game stores are soulless Gamestop types that try and encourage the scam job that is their used game market which both rips off the consumer and the developer.
The interesting thing about book shops is that smaller book shops will probably do better than large ones in the long run.
The reason Borders failed had less to do with the book part of their stores and more to do with retail decisions tied to their attempted embrace of selling CDs along with all their books.
The problem, of course, is that CDs lost every benefit they had over the MP3 player(now a smartphone feature) once prices fell and Amazon started selling DRM-free MP3s.
The kindle you'd actually want to buy (That is, the one that's an actual e-book and not a shitty pseudo tablet) is 120 dollars (US dollars, anyway). It's still an investment, but it's half the price you originally stated.
That being said, I don't actually own one, and I much prefer physical books, but kindle is a good alternative, and it offers great advantages for those of us who would have to import many of the books we'd want to buy.
I'm staring at my grandmother's Kindle right now. There's a price sticker on the top right of the box, stating $250.
Again, I don't know which one she has, but:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GG93YE/ref=fs_sz
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GEKXUO/ref=fs_cl
That would be fantastic if indeed I had a credit card to buy things online, or if my debit card allowed me to purchase things over the internet.
Thus my comment about having to go through rigamarole to be able to buy books on it, and thus the massive price inflation as I believe there are a whole two stores in the city which sell Kindles.
The only reason I don't have a Kindle is because the equivalent Android app works perfectly for me.
Though something tells me I'd be more hesitant to say that if I didn't already plug my phone into the wall every chance I got. Or if I wasn't so bloody used to 4-inch screens.
His point is more that there's a cheaper and better alternative. Your own ability to buy it is irrelevant to that, though.
I don't really understand what you're saying. No, I guess I do, it wasn't a reply to me so much.
More of a factual notation, but whatever.