The Great eBook debate...

[snakehips]

You can't beat paper for some things. It's better in the loo for example , and I have never been able to bring myself to do a crossword online.

Snake

My Library

 

[snakehips]

You can't beat paper for some things. It's better in the loo for example , and I have never been able to bring myself to do a crossword online.

Snake

My Library

 

[swee'pea99]

My youngest - 10, and a voracious reader - wants one of those e-books, where you download and read on a screen. I think they're monstrous, but then I'm nearly 40 years older. I suspect it really is an age thing, and in fifty years the book as we know it will be all but obsolete. ('You mean you used to cut down trees?!')

 

[swee'pea99]

My youngest - 10, and a voracious reader - wants one of those e-books, where you download and read on a screen. I think they're monstrous, but then I'm nearly 40 years older. I suspect it really is an age thing, and in fifty years the book as we know it will be all but obsolete. ('You mean you used to cut down trees?!')

 

[swee'pea99]

My youngest - 10, and a voracious reader - wants one of those e-books, where you download and read on a screen. I think they're monstrous, but then I'm nearly 40 years older. I suspect it really is an age thing, and in fifty years the book as we know it will be all but obsolete. ('You mean you used to cut down trees?!')

 

[beanzontoast]

trees[/I]?!')

OTOH, my daughter bought me the Haynes Supermarine Spitfire manual for Christmas - my current bedtime reading - and I cannot imagine taking in the double-page expansive diagrams and the combinations of illustrations and text on an e-reader until they can accurately replicate the layout, colour and overall feel of using a book.

Plus, what happens in sutuations where you have more than one book open for reference at the same time - as when writing an essay, for example?

I don't think it's just an age thing! .

 

[beanzontoast]

trees[/I]?!')

OTOH, my daughter bought me the Haynes Supermarine Spitfire manual for Christmas - my current bedtime reading - and I cannot imagine taking in the double-page expansive diagrams and the combinations of illustrations and text on an e-reader until they can accurately replicate the layout, colour and overall feel of using a book.

Plus, what happens in sutuations where you have more than one book open for reference at the same time - as when writing an essay, for example?

I don't think it's just an age thing! .

 

[beanzontoast]

trees[/I]?!')

OTOH, my daughter bought me the Haynes Supermarine Spitfire manual for Christmas - my current bedtime reading - and I cannot imagine taking in the double-page expansive diagrams and the combinations of illustrations and text on an e-reader until they can accurately replicate the layout, colour and overall feel of using a book.

Plus, what happens in sutuations where you have more than one book open for reference at the same time - as when writing an essay, for example?

I don't think it's just an age thing! .

 

[Weegie]

trees[/I]?!')

I think you're right there. Still, "epaper" technology is improving...

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100115PR201.html

So hopefully, it will evolve into something you can read in the loo without feeling like a computer geek.

 

[Weegie]

trees[/I]?!')

I think you're right there. Still, "epaper" technology is improving...

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100115PR201.html

So hopefully, it will evolve into something you can read in the loo without feeling like a computer geek.

 

[Weegie]

trees[/I]?!')

I think you're right there. Still, "epaper" technology is improving...

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100115PR201.html

So hopefully, it will evolve into something you can read in the loo without feeling like a computer geek.

 

[Mycroft]

"you mean you used to cut down trees?"

it's interesting that most on here would call for extra taxes on fuel, I wonder would a larger tax on paper, making ebooks more cost effective, help the populace re-evaluate their love of paper?

and think of the space saved.

 

[Mycroft]

"you mean you used to cut down trees?"

it's interesting that most on here would call for extra taxes on fuel, I wonder would a larger tax on paper, making ebooks more cost effective, help the populace re-evaluate their love of paper?

and think of the space saved.

 

[Mycroft]

"you mean you used to cut down trees?"

it's interesting that most on here would call for extra taxes on fuel, I wonder would a larger tax on paper, making ebooks more cost effective, help the populace re-evaluate their love of paper?

and think of the space saved.

 

[rh100]

I like to mostly read from paper - especially for leisure - because then it's portable, you can fold the corner down, it's tactile, they have their own smell, you don't have to concentrate as hard and some are nice to look at as an object let alone what it contains.

screen viewing is fine for technical reference and some training documents. But as an example, I have several study books which I read at my own pace before booking an IT exam, the books also come with a PDF version - I can read the PDF fine - which I do when at work, but I take in more when reading from the book, just seems less clinical somehow.

I haven't tried an actual modern e-reader - but when I first had a Palm PDA it had a great little screen and came with some ebooks - but I just couldn't get into it, I found my attention kept drifting away.