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 Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:47 pm
I am so afraid of that happening! I really want books to stay ink and paper. I think electronics are taking over the world a bit, and eventually we're going to do everything on the computer and never have actual human contact. Then the computers will crash and it will be the apocolypse.
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:49 pm
I can see the temptation in getting one, but I personally don't think I would. Call me provincial, but I like having the texture of the paper in my hands. I can't explain why exactlly, but I think I'd be kind of depressed having something electronic like that to read instead of a book. However, for long journeys I could see the benefit of it. I always get yelled at for bringing too many books so the device could solve that problem. Still wouldn't get it though. I'd still have to decide what books.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:13 pm
Actually, I'd never heard of this until just now.
I don't think I'd buy one. I'm just not that good with technology of any kind. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:44 am
It won't threat as much as every other way of reading.... It relies too much on electric energy to work on longer periods without electricty.
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:09 am
Ipods are better. heart You can download some documents/books and just insert them in the ipod. While you're out, you can just read your ipod and listen to music.
(But, I do not know if you can do that to the older models. ) gonk
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:01 pm
Personally,
I think real books with paper pages are much more preferable to e-books.
Everything is getting electronicized nowadays, it's somewhat annoying.
Nothing, I believe, can compare to curling up with a good old classic hardcover.
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:41 pm
Eh. Seems like a complete waste to me.
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:24 am
crystal_raye Who would pay an arm and a leg plus whatever each books costs when you could just go out and bu the book in a store? Plus how are you going to read rare, uncommon, and out-of-print books? And what about the random, but wonderful, illustrations in some books?
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:05 pm
I guess it would be handy for reading some of the harder-to-find classics... Older books that are only found online, or are too big to carry around with you any other way. Like the side-by-side comparison version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in both old English and translated version! 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:51 pm
Here's something that I'm surprised people haven't brought up: Availability. I doubt that books will be available for this, this gadget, other than best-sellers, and ciriculum classics. Also, what about screen size? Woudln't that slow the reading down considerably?
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:01 pm
I probaly would only get one If they stopped printing books on paper and only for that thing and some really good books came out. Besides, what about batties, I always forget to bring them for my disc player. If I had that and not real books then I would never be able to read.
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