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Hopefully the readers will become better so they also give the additional functionality. For example I really like to see the cover of a book when I pick it up for reading. And that should be implementable in readers but it has to be a reader with a color screen. |
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05-25-2010, 02:08 PM | #18 |
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Very funny and well done.
BTW, I love your user name. I am a huge Tom Swift fan. |
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Yeah! People won't give up on the satisfying finger-punches that kick up my keys, the soothing tacka-tacka-tacka-tacka-tack! of my rhythms, the regular slapping of the carriage return, and the smudges of carbon paper on their fingers, either! Computer keyboards will never replace all that! (And what about the smell of wite-out? Mmmm...) |
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05-25-2010, 04:09 PM | #20 |
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I'm actually going to read a print book for leisure for the first time since getting a Kindle last week.
Have a book I bought right before getting it and haven't got around to reading. That said, I do a TON of reading of paper books and printouts of PDFs for work. Just no current substitute for study/research related reading where I need to be able to mark stuff up very quickly, able to quickly flip through and find relevant passages when writing an article, have multiple articles (tables of findings etc.) spread out in front of me on my desk. A good tablet will solve some of that for me, but I figure I'll be using paper books/printouts to some degree for most all of my career. |
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I second the people who have met the claim that eBooks cannot replace physical books due to some irreplaceable property of the latter with skepticism. Cory Doctorow argues against the idea in Content as follows:
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Typewriter is an instrument to get a job done. A novel is not. Maybe there are a few typemaniacs who type gibberish for hours for the fun of it, I don't know. But you can't compare it. Every person I know who loves to ride horses uses cars or trains to commute. No one of them uses buses for fun, they ride horses. And yes, cars have replaced horses and saddlecoaches as means of transportation. I'm not talking about the better way to have a job done: no matter how much you like the sound of it, a Waterman is better than a plume. |
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No, they don't.
If they did, no paper books would be printed anymore. No used market; no book crossing; no lending books each other; Easier distribution; complete control over every single copy; ability to delete already purchased book with one mouse click; ability to limit the total number of times one single copy is read; fast obsolescence. It's publisher's heaven. Who on earth would chose to artificially lower his income? Quote:
Try to spend a few hours in a car salon: you'll notice three kind of potential buyers. The ones who go straight to the salesman and just listen to what he says, giving a quick glance to the car and demanding to hear the sount of the engine; The ones who sit in the car, try levers and steering wheel, clicking buttons, lowering windows, testing the seat and going around touching almost everything; The ones who stare at the car for a long time, looking at it form every angle, lowering themeselves to have the hood at eye level, they walk around, rarely touching the car, and mostly not listening to what the salesman is saying. The first ones will listen audiobooks with pleasure. The second ones will stick to printed books: they're the ones who enjoy to feel a book. The third ones will be pleased with ebooks. But they'll likely complain when the formatting is poor. Of course all those three groups can read ebook with pleasure. But just go around on blogs and count how many people miss the tactile, auditive and olfattive stimuli that come with p-books. Quote:
Does it mean that nobody does? And I'm not saying people read just to hear the sound of pages turning. I'm saying there are people who rather read paper books for it. A friend of mine reads books one page at a time. tearing them apart, I mean. How can he be satisfied by an ebook device? Quote:
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And what's the point?
I said: "there are people different than me and you who like the smell, weight and sound of paper who won't switch completely to ebooks because they'll miss all that pleasure". You replied: "computer keyboard replaced typewriters". So, what's your point? |
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And that is precisely the point. Yes, there's a niche market for horses (more than that even, perhaps) but as a means of transportation they are no longer relevant. Printed paper books won't go completely away, either, they just won't be used for the bulk of our reading material in the future.
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Do, too But let's not be childish here. I personally think they already offer a "comparable experience", and the gap is narrowing at an astonishing rate.
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