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 ?

Art books are totally crap on the Kindle - but I like my Kindle app. It's also hard to lend a friend a book on Kindle, which is really annoying when you have friends you have 'book' conversations with.

I hate reading academic books on the Kindle; sometimes for work I end up with both the Kindle and paper copy so I can mark up the latter but also not have to lug it around for when I have a moment to read (travelling etc.) Both have their advantages but I can't say I find people loving books knobby at all, especially since my beloved grandmother prefers books and likes to tell me she does .

Wuldric, LRD and anyone else saying you don't actually own e-books:

Amazon uses special software on their e-book files which controls the file and means you cannot move it onto other devices outside of your Kindle account. This software is called DRM, Digital Restriction Management.

So even though you've bought the ebook, you don't have free use of it.

Boo!

However software exists (for free) that will strip the DRM from your ebooks, leaving you to share and store them as you wish.

If you google "How to strip DRM from my ebooks" you will find lots of how-to guides.

I would then also recommend downloading a free software package called Calibre, which will back up all of your ebooks onto your PC.

HTH and is intelligible.

You must go on very long holidays if you have to recharge a kindle.
I have travelled for several weeks at a stretch in the past, and I do go places with no electricity. My last holidays when I've gone away have been for 3 weeks each. (It does make it a bit long between holidays, but it makes it a good break.)

I don't have an actual Kindle. I have a Kindle app on my phone, and I can use up all the charge in a day if I'm using the phone a lot.

Very helpful GoshAnneGorilla thank you for the advice.

I didn't say that, gosh.

Not that it matters to me, as I don't own library books either. I simply prefer paper books because I'm cognitively challenged and cope better with them.

It's not a bid to look intelligent and I don't understand that argument.

You can't line ebooks up on your bookshelf in chronological order according to author. That's why they'll never replace proper books.

Technically, circumventing DRM is piracy though. A lot of people aren't comfortable with that, though in this case I would say it's certainly warranted. Bloody scam artists taking advantage of my fellow book-lovers!

I do not, and never will, own an ereader. I just don't like the idea - hate touch screens too, which doesn't help - and much prefer a physical (is that a better term than "real"?) book. But that is my preference and I am well aware that fewer and fewer people share it.
Sure, I judge people who don't have books, but everyone has at least one thing they irrationally judge people for, don't they?

TBH I find reverse book snobbery like the OP to be more Stating reasons for loving physical books more than ebooks is hardly being "nobby", is it? Is the OP being a bit oversensitive about her own choice of medium or am I just being dense?

Oh christ po, I hadn't thought of the freak-ice-age-and-trapped-in-a-library scenario. I don't suppose upgrading to a kindle fire would help?

Vole I prefer to read without my glasses so with you there :D btw potato book - so worth the piss taking.

I have the salt book and the capsicum books next on the threat list for book club should anyone suggest 50 shades or similar for their choice!

You can't decorate with ebooks. Only today I finished putting together another bookcase that will fill a gap in my sitting room very nicely, with room for a plant the daft kitten finds irresistible on top and hopefully way out of her reach.

Someone up thread said ,it is not done to be passionate and intellectual in the UK.

I was replying by saying owning loads of books is not a sign of intelligence.

Oh, I'm with you usual, sorry. As you see, I am demonstrably slow on the uptake.

FWIW, my DH is in a computery job and amongst his lot, there is a bit of snobbery about people who aren't techie and don't use expensive stuff to read books. Probably they'd be equally snobby about an old kindle and print books - but they're certainly snobby about it.

Really this thread is just showing that you can take pot shots at anything you like, and you'll make some people feel bad and others feel defensive, and some of them will respond with combative snobbery. Bit crap.

i just like books, they look nice, they are nice to thumb through, when i was doing my degree (i got a degree btw ) ebooks were a blinking pain in the arse, you couldn't just flick through them, you could search for certain phrases but that too the enjoyment out of just randoming reading some other chapter.

it's like music though too, i don't have an ipod and still buy cds

horses for courses really... not worth getting in a lather about is it

You don't need to dust an ebook.

this is a cod thread isn't it? she knows how to rankle mnetters

Yeah tis a bit crap.

Read what you like on what you like.

It's just the competitive book owning on MN makes me laugh.

It's not a definitive sign of intelligence Usualsuspect, but I think there is some correlation between having book (or at least the proclivity to read lots)and intelligence.

What LRD said there.

V interesting, Gosh, thank you

Yes ,SEA

What's a cod thread? Does that mean troll or what?