There’s no denying it. I love my Kindle and I hate paper books. I don’t like holding them with two hands, I don’t like keeping the pages pulled apart so I can read the words near the binding (often the best words are located there), and I don’t like lugging them around with me on trips. Enter the e-book!
Granted many books aren’t on the Kindle yet, so consider this a public service announcement to you publishers out there. If your book isn’t available in digital format, I’m not going to read it unless it is recommended to me by someone as the best book they’ve ever read.
I’ve even started buying books I’ve gotten as gifts for the Kindle to avoid the hassle. It’s a little like keeping a checklist of victories in the Kindle; I can page through all my completed books and feel good about myself without having to take up ever increasing amounts of bookshelf space which I hear is bad for the environment (so is using all that paper come to think of it)!!
All you paper book lovers out there should know better!! — don’t you read??
I like paper books. What happens if your battery runs out? Can you loan books to friends? What if you need to kill a bug while you’re reading?
1) The kindle doesn’t run on batteries, it runs on magic.
2) I would suggest GIVING your books away, not loaning them — although I wouldn’t give them to friends, instead you should buy them kindles, books are worthless
3) Only paper books have insects around (whoever heard of a ‘kindle worm’?)
I find your responses to be ridiculous.
Additionally:
1. What about in the case of a nuclear blast? The electromagnetic pulse will render your electronics useless! (Thank you, Ocean’s Eleven)
2. What if you are deserted in the arctic, and need something to burn? Better to have a physical book, because despite its misleading name, the kindle ain’t good kindling.
3. The used books economy. Used books let me sell books I no longer want, and purchase books I want at discounted prices. That combined with the lack of needing to purchase an expensive device give old-school books the definitive economic advantage.