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Oh people who are all nobby about books

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LordPalmerston · 27/10/2013 12:27

"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 ?

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theDudesmummy · 27/10/2013 12:40

I read my kindle in the bath every single day (read the morning newspaper every morning). Still read a mixture of paper books and kindle books, love that I can just take the kindle on holiday and not have to carry books.

binger · 27/10/2013 12:40

I loved the fact I could read the 50 Shades books and no one knew.

Heartbrokenmum73 · 27/10/2013 12:40

You CAN lend books on the Kindle, only to other Kindle owners obviously!

I love both. Love my Kindle because it's light and portable (I read fantasy books mainly and they're generally thick, heavy buggers) and that I can have so many books at my disposal immediately. Like how cheap some books are too.

But I love proper books too. And I've joined the library again in our new place, so no need to pay for paper OR Kindle versions in most cases.

I do buy the proper versions by my favourite authors though, knowing I'll read them over and over.

I like having the either/or choice.

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LordPalmerston · 27/10/2013 12:40

Yes. Our bookcase will get thinner and thinner I think. It like when people used to have endless video cassettes sing it? Or LPs

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binger · 27/10/2013 12:40

I loved the fact I could read the 50 Shades books and no one knew.

theDudesmummy · 27/10/2013 12:40

PS also the enlarged font thing is great for oldies like me who can't see a thing.

oversomeniagara · 27/10/2013 12:42

I love paper books- reading them of course, but also as objects in themselves. They make a house look homely. They can be beautiful. They don't run out of battery...

However, I can see the advantage of a kindle for travelling. I wish you could buy the paper version of the book and then get the electronic version for a couple of quid rather than paying out twice in full. Unless that happens, I will stick to paper.

PacificDogwood · 27/10/2013 12:42

You can share books across different devices that are registered to the same Kindle account on Amazon.
I am not aware that I could lend to others, can I??

You then have to be aware of content: not everything on my Kindle is suitable for DSs (and I don't even have 50 Shades on it).

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LordPalmerston · 27/10/2013 12:43

Does anyone love my gift book idea needy

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LordPalmerston · 27/10/2013 12:43

I laugh when I see H has downloaded jack reacher number twenty zillion

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mamapants · 27/10/2013 12:44

I don't think its knobby to express an opinion on a preference for 'real' books. And if it is knobby to do so then it is nobby to express a preference for ebooks and therefore you are a knob.

I prefer real books and am going to dedicate an entire room in my new house to books so ner ner.

stargirl1701 · 27/10/2013 12:45

The smell, the binding, the cloth or leather cover.... I love books. I use my iPad to read trashy sci-fi but I like my classics to look beautiful. I spend a fortune on Folio books Grin

Alisvolatpropiis · 27/10/2013 12:46

People who are knobby about kindles are particularly irritating to me.

I have no interest in them and won't get one until I have no other option.

I can see they have their benefits it's just not for me.

GoshAnneGorilla · 27/10/2013 12:49

There are other ereaders aside from Kindles.

Also, if you use the Calibre software which stores your eBooks on your PC and download one of the extensions from Apprentice Alf, you can strip the DRM from the eBook and then share it as you wish.

reup · 27/10/2013 12:49

I have a friend who is like this about proper books. So I like to out sneer her by saying how the content/words of a book are so much more important to me than the format/exterior. She didn't respond.

ScarerAndFuckItsAGhost · 27/10/2013 12:50

Come the apocalypse and the total loss of power, all those nobby people will be proved right. You don't have to charge up a paper book to keep reading it.

I love paper books and I love my Kindle (although I admit I never thought I would before I had one).

I have been caught sniffing a new book in Waterstones by one of the staff. It could have been embarrassing but the lad just said "I like to sniff the travel section" and wandered away again. I was sniffing Horror, Sci-fi and Dark Fantasy at the time. Grin

usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 12:52

I can read shite chick lit on my kindle and no one can judge me

reup · 27/10/2013 12:53

I can't read anything by candle light though! I tried in a recent post cut. And in a post apocalyptic works daylight hours will be needed fire hunting, gathering,farming and fighting off zombies and aliens.

Bunbaker · 27/10/2013 12:53

I read books on my kindle because I can carry it around with me and it doesn't weight very much. The kindle is easy to read in sunshine and the pages don't blow shut on a winsy day.

I buy books from charity shops or fund raising events - so various well deserving causes benefit. I read them and then redonate them so the well deserving cause benefits again.

They are cheap - often cheaper than an ebook.

I am not snobby about either. I just like reading.

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 27/10/2013 12:53

My children have books that are mine from my childhood
Wonder if ds will be saving his kindle ones for his children, bet the technology will be obsolete by then

SeaSickSal · 27/10/2013 12:55

I like getting books in charity shops too. You can't give to charity and get a book on kindle.

LadyintheRadiator · 27/10/2013 12:55

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LordPalmerston · 27/10/2013 12:55

Can someone tell me what the benefits of a paper white is? I have a big standard kindle.

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LordPalmerston · 27/10/2013 12:56

Someone once said on here "if you really want to re read a book years later just buy another one". Liberating.

I never re read

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Heartbrokenmum73 · 27/10/2013 12:57

Jesus, snobbery on both sides here!