Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

yeah when i evangelize for this stuff it's for e-readers in general, not for the kindle, which i have and like but which has all sorts of problems and will soon look unusably clunky. (mine already does.)

oh yeah i love books! when i read them i compulsively smell the pages like once every five minutes. but that joy doesn't have anything to do with "literature".

Yeah, people who eschew content for the 'experience' of reading a book. Too often those people will whip out a Dan Brown.

just mailed an article i wanted to read later to my kindle btw

i considered writing it down and bringing it with me but i hadn't a pencil or any paper

OR A SOUL

oh i used to have a soul but i traded it for a kindle

i am a sole trader

our soul

i regret trading my soul for a kindle it's true, now i have nothing to trade for a kindle touch except maybe my niece

oh yeah i love books! when i read them i compulsively smell the pages like once every five minutes. but that joy doesn't have anything to do with "literature".

Yeah, people who eschew content for the 'experience' of reading a book. Too often those people will whip out a Dan Brown.

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:36 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is p bullshit IMO

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store/zgbs/digital-text

this doesn't look much different than any list of best selling books you might see, certainly no more highbrow. i doubt there's any correlation between "fetishizing" books as objects and worse taste in lit.

seriously, it's kind of obnoxious in ilx threads about this, like books have been books for thousands of years and now like kindle's been out for a few years and suddenly yr an asshole if you like regular books.

and fuck it, i liked da vinci code

that's not what i was saying

yr an asshole if you like regular books.

don't think anyone's said anything like this tbf

but if you say shit like

All I can say is that the aesthetics, the conceptualization, the idea, and the practice of actually reading a book on an electronic device make me want to vomit. But go ahead and discard thousands of years of human experience and effort! Enjoy your carcinogenic e-leaflets on how to illegally download music instead of being a responsible adult! Have fun piecing together the scraps of recorded civilization once the electricity gets cut off!

then yes, you may in fact be an asshole

srsly top shelf trolling

tip of the cap alright, we wouldn't want it to starve

Where is SB button on Zing Touch?

Guess I need to go to pencil and paper ILX for that

bookkake party

Your abandonment of literature in its ideal format has apparently unable to discern the nuances of metaphorical writing.

???? "ideal format"? Ideal to you, obviously, but universally?

'ideal' to me is the most practical, and when I'm spending my holiday on a banana lounge by a pool I don't want to use two hands to hold open a book so

ymmv

cool strawsock

Not a purpose-specific sock though. He's been around for ages. Though not as a troll.

eReader + iPhone = best travel experience in history. all my books, all my music, and a decent camera fits in 1/6 of my backpack. fuck the 20th century, in retrospect it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

well, except for all the books and music written in it

eReader + iPhone = best travel experience in history. all my books, all my music, and a decent camera fits in 1/6 of my backpack. fuck the 20th century, in retrospect it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

New board discription

New borad description

"in retrospect"

people said it for me but yeah for god's sake there is nothing wrong with liking books, everyone likes books, books are great, my room is like 80% books; it's just when you start acting like writing's only good if you kill some trees that you seem like you're not very interested in writing

^^

Got so many books, so many unread books, that pretty much the only books I can buy these days are eBooks.

cool strawsock

― buzza, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:47 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I do think it's kinda interesting that this sock is projecting the emotional experience of reading into the PAGES OF THE BOOK ITSELF though, as though the real meaning of your wedding vows was in the precious thread of the bridal gown.

people said it for me but yeah for god's sake there is nothing wrong with liking books, everyone likes books, books are great, my room is like 80% books; it's just when you start acting like writing's only good if you kill some trees that you seem like you're not very interested in writing

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:06 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM. Hoos too.

Why is it that invariably in these disagreements that NO ONE* who is pro-e-reader is anti-book, but the paper lovers get all het up against e-books.

*Except Jeff, but he is a known contrarian and I have seen his bookshelves.

preferred the sandbox version of this thread tbh

if you kill some trees

i like my android and nook and all that but we need to stop this rhetoric, with stuff like the working conditions at foxcomm and the copper mining industry, etc, i'd wager the electronics industry is far worse for the planet than the paper industry in 2012

We've been reducing our books for years. Basically what we have left is going to be it give or take a book here and there. I'd get rid of those if I could.

I do feel sort of bad when someone gives me a paper book to read. Ain't going to happen.

xxp did not say the electronics industry was better for the planet than the paper industry, or that books are bad because they require killing trees, just that neither industry has anything to do with the quality of moby-dick. god knows there's nightmares all round but as je55e points out nobody ever says that literature sucks unless you have to pull chinese slaves back from ledges to distribute it.

xpost if the book doesn't suck, mail it to me

god knows there's nightmares all round but as je55e points out nobody ever says that literature sucks unless you have to pull chinese slaves back from ledges to distribute it.

Yeah, but we're all THINKING it...

I do feel sort of bad when someone gives me a paper book to read. Ain't going to happen.

― Jeff, Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:16 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's weird, couldn't you read it and give it back to them when u were done?

i've been almost shocked at how quickly i transitioned from a diehard paper purist to preferring e-books. the only time i feel bad about it is when i'm talking about something i read and a friend says, "oh, can i borrow it?" :/

that'll work itself out over time tho

hopefully

that's weird, couldn't you read it and give it back to them when u were done?

I would if I could but I have trouble reading paper books. Hurts my eyes and I can't concentrate. I find myself always distracted by the type size, shadows on the page, etc. I went several years without reading much at all, until I started reading on my phone and iPad.

that'll work itself out over time tho

not if my friends never get e-readers

I would if I could but I have trouble reading paper books. Hurts my eyes and I can't concentrate. I find myself always distracted by the type size, shadows on the page, etc. I went several years without reading much at all, until I started reading on my phone and iPad.

― Jeff, Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:14 PM (4 minutes ago)

I really like the night time reading mode on the kindle iPad app. I put it on a larger text size and can read easily for an hour or two before bed. Rarely read during the day.

That's a v v important point. There's a load of people for whom reading is ridiculously limited without an ereader. You can't increase text size in a book.