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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (11 children)

One of these decades folks will realize that a good e-reader is as game changing as the iPod was.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I mean, no one's telling you that you can't or that you shouldn't. I just like having two decades of reading material on tap at any time without needing to lug a library around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I got round that problem by buying a folding leather cover for my Kobo

It's an absolute game changer for holidays etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Doesn't have the book smell, I think it's part of my OCD but I'm very heavily invested in the smell of books

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I for one especially enjoy accidentally ripping a page and the subsequent self-loathing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

If you angrily throw your eReader across the room when the book's ending sucks and pisses you off, it's a lot more expensive than that time I did it to Michael Crichton's Sphere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm very pro real books and as a result was hesitant to jump on the ebook bandwagon. That all changed after finishing a particularly large book early during a long trip, lugging those damn dead trees around the country for a while and unable to find anything worthwile to read in along the way. Now with my ebook any book and every book on my "to read" list taking up the same space, same weight, and I don't worry about damaging them because the ebook is waterproof with a rugged cover.

I still buy hard to find and out of print books at used book stores, but those stay home and get gifted to special people when I'm done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yup, this is the way. My e-reader weighs less than my phone and is about 1/4th the size of a hardback or trade paperback with the cover or a protective sleeve. It's a game changer for travel, commuting, waiting time before appointments, etc.

I've read 200+ books in the span of time I might have read 20 if I had to throw an actual book in my bag on the way out the door.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is the invention I've been dreaming of.

It looks like a blank book. Pages look, feel, and smell like regular paper. I download a new book and text appears on the pages. I read it like a regular book, and when I'm done I can erase the text and start over.

I know it's a luxury item for a limited market, but that's what I want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Are you from Hogwarts? This reads like something from a fantasy lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If there was an easy way to easily let friends borrow your books, I'd agree. The whole benefit of physical books (aside from convenience) is full ownership of it. I can always sell it or buy cheap used ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

If you're up to it, there are some high Calibre solutions out there that can liberate the books you own to be able to lend them to friends.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

An e-reader and libgen have made me read more than the shelves full of books in my house ever have

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I probably read about as much on my phone as I do on paper. I would never read a book on my phone. I hate that experience compared to reading a physical book when it comes to such media. I would have to think about it a lot more to explain it coherently, but it's ok for wikipedia and not ok for books.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm on my seventh e-ink kindle. I still prefer paper for reference books, but e-ink for everything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How did you go through six? I still rock my first and almost a decade old kindle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Working in machine shops; I often had cycle time to read. Drops killed most of them. I had a few mysteriously die. When I would open them up, there was board and frame corrosion. Metal working fluids and fine metal chips are hell on electronics.

Dropped a few in the bathtub. Current kindle has been dropped in the bath, but survived. It may die due to corrosion. Battery is getting weak anyhow.

For years, I didn't use a cover. I now have one of the official Amazon covers and have gotten better longevity on my former and current kindles. My case has a crack in it due to a drop.

I consider them a consumable, they're cheap compared to the knowledge and pleasure they give me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

When you use them heavily some of the incremental improvements are nice to have. I swapped my mid 2010s Nook for an ~8in Boox 3y ago or so and it was a huge upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

True that. I'm also looking to upgrade to something with a nicer display. I've got my eyes on Kobo, since they also seem rather hackable

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

incremental improvements are nice to have.

A book is a book

- Gutenberg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Guttenberg never put a Frank Frazetta heroine on a book cover!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Frazetta art on a book is almost false advertising at this point. But, hear me out, Frazetta-style buff Jesus with a Valkyrie Mary Magdalene riding the seven-headed beast of the apocalypse…. Slap that cover on the Bible and we’ll be making money in no time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I had 10k books on one and still I read about a quarter of a book on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Any moment now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

True, there are so many free ebooks online you can read without buying