Kindle vs. books My personal opinion
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Re: Kindle vs. books My personal opinion
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I think it would be easier to have a kindle but only if you didn't have to pay for the books AGAIN when you already have them. To me that is just stupid.
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For instance, the biography I'm now reading on Thomas Hardy is a former library book, hardback has a fairly small print. If it was to be put on Kindle, it would likely increase to nearly a thousand pages.
I very much enjoy biographies, once I break into them. It's finding the combination to the lock that takes time. Once done, I'm off, totally immersed into the life of another.
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That being said, I appreciate eReaders have their uses. For travelling they are particularly good and space of course. So many books on so small a device. But ultimately, I'll always choose the feel of paper and the weight of a paperback.
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Now that I have learned more about the wealth of free titles available at Gutenberg and other sites, including almost all of the classics and many older books I would have been hard-pressed to find in a well-stocked university library, I think e-readers are much more useful than I gave them credit for. When I want to read a book I don't plan to buy and keep, or one I can't easily find elsewhere, e-readers are great. They are even more comfortable for long readings than I had thought--I've recently read half of Robinson Crusoe online.
However, given a choice I would still take an actual book anytime. Most importantly, I like that cloth and paper is more comfortable to handle for hours of reading. And most actual books are much more forgiving when you fall asleep reading them--my Nexus cracked me in the head the other day when I made that mistake with an e-book!
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