Oh people who are all nobby about books

[LordPalmerston]

"Oh I love a real book". "I can see how much ice got left". Oh fgs ebooks are way better one handed reading. Easy storage. Easy to buy and HUGE FONT option for when you've forgotten your glasses or are drunk

Why do people go into mini orgasm about paper ?

i got a 2:1 usual

lol thanks for noticing see how i am now back to my annoying mn self

I grew up with literally no books in the house (parents with literacy problems). Neither of my parents had grown up in houses with any books either, and for them, reading always remained a 'lazy' activity. They don't understand its value, even though it's how I make a living.

I would have said that the problem with owning thousands of books, but in e-form (as regards being a child growing up in such a household) might be that said child wouldn't see a parent reading in the same way as h/she would with a paper book - looking at a screen is more ambiguous - and couldn't dip in and out or browse in the same way as would be possible with a crammed bookshelf. Reading seems to me to be a more private affair in an e-reader...?

My children all have kindles, apart from the youngest because he is needs colour picture books . They also have paper books, I suspect many avid readers have both.

Ah well, there's chick lit and then there's chick lit though, LRD
Yes, I can be snobby about chick lit .

Congrats, SEA

I would love an old fashioned library in my house. There is something about the feel and smell of leather bound books. All in neat rows.

I do like the kindle app, you can read a recommendation on MN and have read the book by the end of day, also you don't need to dust them.

It's funny wrt to Kindle books: I have to go to the title page and turn over the pages via the legal stuff and the dedications and inside title page and the author's note before I start with chapter 1. Which is the default opening page of the Kindle.

I do so love books. But eReader's have their place.
I don't see why I should have to decide between the two tbh.

But my children know I am reading, even when it is on a kindle. Mainly because I shriek at them to leave me alone because " Mummy is trying to read and you are all making so much noise"

I go to a book club and like the fact that I can annotate my book and search for things quickly when talking about the book.

My DS had loads of books as a child.

He rarely reads books as an adult.

But he reads all the time on the internet.

Oh, I read crap chicklit. And proudly. Actually the thing that annoys me is really sexist chicklit (yes, I know, it's all relative...) rather than really bad writing. Sometimes you want something simple.

Yy to bookwhore - me too, LaQueen.

I am loving the fact that my older kids are now old enough to have moved past the picture book phase (not that they did not have some fabulous kid's books) and I can now share some of the book I enjoyed when I was 10...

YY, I think that's a big difference in our generation, usual, reading on the net. My parents wouldn't get that it might be educational or anything like that.

Oh, no, I cannot stand badly written chick lit. Nor the pink covers . 'Yummy Mummy' vom

Then again the recent Kindle Deal of the Day was 'Lacey's House' (cannot remember the author) and it was excellent, I thought.

I read crap crime fiction . With gusto.

I also read great crime fiction.

What do you reckon is badly written, then? I am quite happy with stuff like Kinsella's non-shopaholic ones (the ones she writes as Madelaine Wickham), and I got through India Knight's books although they get slated on here and I didn't rate them hugely.

I've never got into Jackie Collins and I have a feeling you have to get into it young to really love it, and I've missed the boat.

If kids had to read on a kindle, they would never start because it all looks so boring.

Nonsense. Children of today are far more used to technology than adults. They are well aware that a small black tablet can hold a whole world of entertainment.

Did you need to experience a book made of vellum, hand written with beautiful calligraphy in order to appreciate reading a paperback?

Oooh goes off to search for Laceys House.

Ooh! I need crime fiction recs.

Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly, when I said visual demonstration of reading - I suppose I mean the ritual of reading - page turning, the book being left on a table with the cover on display etc - that simply isn't there with a kindle/e reader. When you read with a kindle you press a button and it page turns - I could be MNing!

But it's only a different ritual, isn't it? It's not the absence of ritual.

You might as well say that with a print book, you don't have the ritual of opening a chemise of cloth around a manuscript or unlocking the boards.

Ooooh ooooh I have Lacey's House downloaded - have yet to read it though. Glad someone's recommended it.

And yy to Lisa Jewell - I don't really do chick lit but her books are fucking brilliant. And she's just got better and better, started out as very chick lit and now just writes these amazing stories that really suck you in. Her books I buy in paperback - Kindle feels wrong for Lisa Jewell .