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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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usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 21:03

Ok then maybe I should have said, displaying and keeping 2000 books is not a sign of intelligenc

LRDtheFeministDragon · 27/10/2013 21:04

Obviously.

usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 21:04

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PacificDogwood · 27/10/2013 21:04

Cod = much beloved longstanding MNer who may or may not still walk amongst us following the whole Mouldies debacle.
She is known to good at... ahem... polarising opinion Grin

usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 21:05

But at least books don't leave the last letter off words like this kindle fire. Grin

southeastastra · 27/10/2013 21:05

but a thicko would not have 2000 books would they [wionk]

usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 21:06

They might have 2000 mills and boon books.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 27/10/2013 21:07

Thanks pacific. Must be before my time. I wasn't here when Mouldies happened.

You know what I hate? Those pubs that do a revamp to look all trendy, and buy in books by the yard with loads of gilt. Clearly they're meant to look deep. There's one near us where they gave you the bill folded into a quaintly weathered tome.

Except, when we opened ours we found it was a nineteenth-century travel diary full of pretty full-on nineteenth-century racism. Whoops.

LaQueenOfTheDamned · 27/10/2013 21:13

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MissBeehiving · 27/10/2013 21:15

I don't know why but I just find a paperback easier to hold Confused

southeastastra · 27/10/2013 21:15

LRD i thought you were around yonks ago! you must just stick in my mind Grin

GoshAnneGorilla · 27/10/2013 21:16

LRD - I have said not one word about book ownership equaling intelligence (I'm not going near that one), I was just trying to make my initial post more intelligible and less techno-babble.

Back to the general thread. I am somewhat baffled by the frequent MN assertion that bookcases are somehow essential for tasteful/homely decor.

We have two bookcases in our dining room. They look like bookcases, I don't see what is so aesthetically wow about bookcases. Confused

Lazysuzanne · 27/10/2013 21:16

obviously having large quantities of books is not a necessary or sufficient condition for intelligence, but like I said there is some correlation between intelligence and book ownership

QueenMedb · 27/10/2013 21:17

I do find people who claim they never reread weird, though.

Or the quibbling about 'displaying' books. You don't display the, surely, you just have them...?

Question for e-reader users - how do you choose what books to buy? I mean, what is the e-reader equivalent of browsing in a bookshop? Or do people browse in an actual bookshop and then just go and buy the e-version?

GeorginaWorsley · 27/10/2013 21:17

I do re read,and I do have a kindle.
I love bookshelves crammed with books though.
A place for both in my life.

Dawndonnaagain · 27/10/2013 21:18

We have around 3000 books, my home would look naked without them, and wouldn't feel like home.

  1. No they are not decoration
  2. Unless they are in the pile on the floor next to the couch or bed, then yes, they have been read.
  3. I dislike kindle and the associative naming of them, kindle and kindle fire, who the fuck thought that one up. Arse!
usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 21:19

I have one small bookcase and a shelf of books in my bedroom.

All the rest I give away or sell at a car boot.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 27/10/2013 21:19

south - no, just since 2009. But thanks (I think!). Grin

gosh - yy, I got that, sorry - as usual I started with one point and rambled into another.

I do have some pretty books, for work - I've got a facsimile of a medieval manuscript and it is beautiful. But most people who see it on a shelf think it is a board book, because it is that sort of shape.

I also have a truly catholic collection of chicklit. If I could cope with a kindle I'd buy in on there as it'd be cheaper.

Arisbottle · 27/10/2013 21:20

Many people think I am a bit thick, I have a home library, partly because i am a bit of a nob that worries that people think I thick.

Arisbottle · 27/10/2013 21:21

See I can't even type a sentence, think I am a bit thick.

usualsuspect · 27/10/2013 21:22

You can browse on Amazon.

It's quite nice browsing from the comfort of your sofa.

IamChristmas · 27/10/2013 21:22

Queen I do go to book shops to browse and then download the ebooks, I also read book reviews online and in the papers and I get recommendations from friends, I never have trouble finding books to download :)
Also I love the fact that with my kindle I can often download the first chapter for free and if I don't like it I don't buy the book, that has saved me a lot of money that I would have spent in book shops on books that look good but turn out to be not my cup of tea.

Arisbottle · 27/10/2013 21:23

I use my kindle because I can finish one book and go straight to another, I also like browsing books with a glass of wine in my hand.

Lazysuzanne · 27/10/2013 21:26

I like to browse on amazon, if I hear a book discussed on the radio which sounds interesting, or a book that I'm reading cites another book I'll look it up on amazon, read some reviews, download a sample etc

LaQueenOfTheDamned · 27/10/2013 21:26

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