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RE: Great Reads - burma.girl - 10-27-2011 09:38 AM
Thought this might be a good spot to pose this question:
Any thoughts on eReaders? I prefer the ol' skool paper 'n' ink, but we've been considering one for the tech-savvy teenager. I'd been spying the Nook Color, but now I see Amazon is trotting out a new color version of Kindle. Of course they're designed more like a tablet than just an eReader, but in terms of access to titles and storage, anybody have an opinion?
RE: Great Reads - BrianW - 10-27-2011 11:51 AM
Looking forward to hosting Kate Whouley at our store tonight. She's here in support of her memoir I mentioned a while back, Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels With Mom in the Land of Dementia.
RE: Great Reads - BrianW - 10-28-2011 11:25 AM
Cleaning out the stacks and came across Bob Mould of the 1980s punk band
Husker Du biography, See a Little Light. It's an ARC - anyone in the USA (shipping on my dime) interested in it? Not the typical book I send on to my mom's 'retirement villa' or the VFW. Hate to see it go to waste.
RE: Great Reads - Scythe Matters - 10-28-2011 05:31 PM
(10-27-2011 09:38 AM)burma.girl Wrote: Thought this might be a good spot to pose this question:
Any thoughts on eReaders? I prefer the ol' skool paper 'n' ink, but we've been considering one for the tech-savvy teenager. I'd been spying the Nook Color, but now I see Amazon is trotting out a new color version of Kindle. Of course they're designed more like a tablet than just an eReader, but in terms of access to titles and storage, anybody have an opinion?
Well, I have a Kindle but not the new one. Mine is the $119 version (thought it was $139 last year). I love it. It has a keyboard which the newer ones omits - very handy for searches and making notes. I can also play MP3s on it and do the Web thing (though that's not so great). It's simple to use and has the non-glare finish. I comes with 2 dictionaries on board (the new ones probably do, too). I have a goodly bunch of books on mine, including all of Bubba's (except The masked Rider which isn't available for Kindle). The best thing about it is the FREE books! Yep, free books. If the copyright is up (50 years) then you can get it for free! I have the complete William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft (okay, I paid 99 cents for the Lovecraft) in my collection. And if I want something right now I can get it in mere moments. I also have a dozen games so even if I'm not reading, my Kindle can keep me occupied.
I'd recommend that Bubba look into getting one. It would be much easier to travel with - lighter, too! And it doesn't mean you eschew the real thing, gods forbid, but it takes up so little space that it is perfect for traveling.
RE: Great Reads - Rey - 10-28-2011 05:57 PM
Pshaw! I don't need any of your dadburn new fangled doodads just so I can read a book. Criminy, you are all going to end up being zombies walking around staring into illuminated screens! Give me a good old fashioned book, the kind I can open up and smell the mildew on the binding. Free books? You stop payin 'em and they'll stop writing 'em! Then what you gonna read? Now excuse me, I have to make a call on my rotary phone...
RE: Great Reads - smoker guy - 10-28-2011 08:12 PM
(10-28-2011 05:57 PM)Rey Wrote: Pshaw! I don't need any of your dadburn new fangled doodads just so I can read a book. Criminy, you are all going to end up being zombies walking around staring into illuminated screens! Give me a good old fashioned book, the kind I can open up and smell the mildew on the binding. Free books? You stop payin 'em and they'll stop writing 'em! Then what you gonna read? Now excuse me, I have to make a call on my rotary phone...
Here Here old boy, I agree. Gimmee a good old book any day over a new tech e-reader, kindle, whatever.
Seriously tho, I just love the feel of a book in hand, its more intimate for me. Am I sappy or what?
RE: Great Reads - Scooter Britches - 10-28-2011 08:15 PM
I agree...there's nothing like flipping back a page or two or even mulling over a great paragraph (usually as I wipe tears out of my eyes). You can't do that with one of them e-readers. And you don't have to worry about batteries! (leave that one alone Muffy...)
(has anyone else noticed how cool the BnG calendars smell? Can't do that with an e-reader either. I love the smell of actual printing, binding and paper!)
RE: Great Reads - Gungawoman - 10-29-2011 07:38 PM
Yes! The feel of the different papers on my fingers, the smell of the book, the weight of it in my hands, even the sound of the pages being turned. Plus they look so cool on my library shelves! I'll take a real book any day of the week!
RE: Great Reads - Scooter Britches - 10-29-2011 08:17 PM
Ooo, I just got a Fahrenheit 451 forboding feeling when I read that. I mean, really, if real books go away, what do we put in our libraries? What will the libraries of the future look like? Long metal couches with nothing but USB ports?? Loungers with cables to plug into the jack in the base of our skulls?!?!?!
OH NOES!
STOP THE MADNESS!!!
RE: Great Reads - nettiesaur - 10-29-2011 09:43 PM
\'CanyonDancer\' pid=\'27477\' dateline=\'1319941038\ Wrote:Ooo, I just got a Fahrenheit 451 forboding feeling when I read that. I mean, really, if real books go away, what do we put in our libraries? What will the libraries of the future look like? Long metal couches with nothing but USB ports?? Loungers with cables to plug into the jack in the base of our skulls?!?!?!
OH NOES!
STOP THE MADNESS!!!
You know, I hadn\'t read Fahrenheit 451 until last year, and it scared the bejeesus out of me.
So much of that has happened, and our society is headed in that direction.
Think of the big screen t.v.\'s that everyone must have, and the kindles..