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MineralMan

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17. Yes, I enjoy paper books, too, even old musty-smelling ones I buy

Mon May 12, 2014, 11:18 AM

May 2014

so I can have the content in old books that are long out of print.

However, my Kindle lets me create notes and highlight passages, too. It doesn't smell, though, and doesn't make my wrists tired during long reading sessions. It also gives me access, through gutenberg.org to a wide range of the old, obscure books that I find the most interesting. Books I can't get from the library or that I would have to pay very high prices to obtain.

Is the paper book dead? No, it's not, and its not moribund, either. I still have a few thousand volumes in my bookshelves, but I do find myself using books in data form more and more. I have access to more books than ever before, including new books by authors whose work will never appear in any bookshelf or even be printed on paper.

I like e-publishing. It has opened publishing up to many for whom publishing would never happen. I also like paper books. It's just that I find more and more of my reading being done on my e-ink Kindle. Right now, it has over 1000 books on it, and I delete most books when I finish reading them. It goes with me wherever I go, slipped into whatever I'm carrying or in a coat pocket. Nifty thing, having a library in my pocket that I can use any time. Truly.

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The sad part of this is that in text there is context; Ron Green May 2014 #1

I absolutely agree... defacto7 May 2014 #2

I read several books a month on a Kindle, Codeine May 2014 #5

I agree with that Victor_c3 May 2014 #10

Too easy is correct....especially for children blueamy66 May 2014 #15

valid point Victor_c3 May 2014 #20

I remember, as a child, asking my Mother how to spell a world, and inevitably she would respond blueamy66 May 2014 #26

absolutely agree Aerows May 2014 #12

I'm not sure that's true. MineralMan May 2014 #6

I agree that the screen doesn't offer the same experience as an actual book. blueamy66 May 2014 #16

Yes, I enjoy paper books, too, even old musty-smelling ones I buy MineralMan May 2014 #17

Thanks for that post. blueamy66 May 2014 #24

I can't supply a study to support it, but my view is that electronically-published material does not Ron Green May 2014 #18

I don't think so. We all started with books, because MineralMan May 2014 #19

I hope you're right, if you're saying that people's skills to form and understand context will grow, Ron Green May 2014 #23

I wonder if they are counting the Nook and other readers yeoman6987 May 2014 #27

Kids read so much online. DemocraticWing May 2014 #3

That was the great thing about being grounded. Neoma May 2014 #11

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yep, a lot of kids hate reading these days quinnox May 2014 #13

I remember a lot of kids who hated reading MineralMan May 2014 #14

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Introduce more kids to comic books. karadax May 2014 #25

this is terribly sad, IMO.... mike_c May 2014 #28