E-Books Are Easier

[poliphilo]

I used to collect books obsessively. Look how well-read I am! Look how my book shelves groan! Have you noticed the complete (well nearly complete) set of the collected works of Thomas de Quincey? But it's ages since I bought myself a printed book. Instead I finish one e-book, go clickety-click- and there's the next.

As a student I was told that a single glance at a person's bookcase would tell you when they gave up thinking. No longer true, is it? OK they might not be displaying anything with a publishing date later than- say- 2007, but that could just represent the year they went digital. 

Comments

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

I am trying to learn HTML and CSS. I made leaps and bounds after I got a good book - well the PDF of one. Browsing through the w3.org website only got me so far, which was not far enough.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Ebooks definitely take up less room and don't harbour so much dust. There are still some things I prefer to read in physical book form, but almost 100% of my fiction reading is ebook these days, unless it's a re-read of something I already own.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Mm, I've been almost purely a digital bunny for a while now - partially for the sheer convenience of not having to lug ever more boxes into and out of storage (and conversely, being able to keep my digital collection with me in its entirety), partially the environmental issues in producing so much paper, then shipping it often halfway around the world to some distributor, then maybe another long journey to me, versus just enabling a brief spurt of data.

The portability is superb, too, of course - I can have almost unlimited books and comics on my iPad, with no regard for weight. Which can be significant enough with normal books, let alone reference tomes like the Grzimek Animal Life Encyclopedia, spanning some 17 hefty volumes - or, under 1GB. =:)

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Despite having an e-reader i still read more books but i am a bit of a curmudgeon that way.