Lol, so very true and the tablet with swipe left and the graphic of a page turning will not replace turning the page.
and may your eyes in the future stay good. I'm crossing my fingers and bending down to cross my toes, whew 😁 so it stays that way with you and many others.
I love the feel and smell of books, and I resisted moving to e-readers for a long time. I move about once every 2 years, and taking hundreds of books each time was never that much of an issue, until I moved to China. When doing that, I was limited to the number of books I could bring in (and the number of DVDs, CDs, video games...everything had its own category and limitations). Since then my vision has deteriorated and my light keeps my wife up.I remember those days and the whole vibe then something changed. I would always get the lighting right, music and seating. Open the book and WTF!!!! my vision had changed to the point that I needed reading glasses and that was an easy fix. Then, I moved. Moving 300+ books required a lot of big boxes and I already had 4 floor standing 5 shelves book shelves.
I enjoyed my reading world but reality of vision and space was unrelenting
I had to try the Nook. I got to luv the Nook(years ago)and so did airplane seats. After losing 2 Nooks, I broke down and got the 5th gen. iPad whose sole purpose was for books. It took sometime for the change but I can now carry all my books on the iPad and reading is still a joy.
I understand the romance of a book with paper pages and I understand the romance of the tablet. In time grasshopper so will you.
I use a kindle and aside from the portability I find the biggest advantages are:
I read the Hobbit with Alan Lee's illustrations with the kids last year, and they loved it. It's time for me to reread the trilogy again. I did get the audible with Andy Serkis narrating for my daughter, but I haven't listened to it yet. I should.
Getting back to the basic premise of this thread, this exact issue was the premise of a story I just recently read. It was a short fictional novel (novella?) by Connie Willis entitled I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land that laments the loss of print media. It was a good quick read.
Thank you very much, going to grab this with some Mushoku Tensei light novella, the season 2 pt1 just finished, and i am told the written novella are better then the show and manga.
Sorry about the multiple quotes and the late reply. I log in once in couple-three months, just moderating time spent on online forums. Just thought I'd mention Martha Nussbaum's recently published Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility (unfortunately, the book is a little expensive, but we have the Google Books preview thankfully, and she also has a piece in Boston Review which summarizes the arguments she has laid out in detail in the book; this latter piece is really well done--in fact it's a transcript of an interview, but it works like a critical introduction to the book). Many of her arguments implicitly allude to the fact that we tend to think of the planet as our fundamental niche, which in turn tends to absolve us of the ethical thinking necessary to lead less destructive lives. In fact, the book seems to claim that if we are to think of the planet as our niche, we incur the ethical duty to think about how we consume and treat non-human animals. Though she doesn't (as far as I can tell) use the term fundamental niche.
I would add to that list of benefits of a Kindle…
yep, once i started reading on Kindle, I never went back to physical books built in dictionary is huge
Tried that. After 1/2 (0.5) of a page I decided that this was the worst written book I had ever read (worse even than the Gor books I read as a post-adolescent...).
Dan Brown fits that description for me.
His history is pretty brutal, too.
