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In reply to the discussion: E-reading isn’t reading....... [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)I like hard copy books. I like the feel. I like turning pages. I love the rich illustrations available on a hard book.
I also like reading stuff on my kindle. There are pros and cons. I don't like swiping. Not on my phone, not on my kindle. Sometimes my touch screen jumps 20 pages ahead and won't take me back, making me enter random locations to "go to" to find where I was. I haven't figured out how to organize my kindle library to make things easy and quick to find. I haven't figured out how to use my usb instead of wifi, which is important since I have to drive at least 8 miles to find a wifi connection. I like that the kindle will allow me to highlight text and get definitions, will allow me to take notes. I like that, if I'm going on vacation, I can carry one light-weight kindle with all of the books I want to read on it, instead of packing all that weight for multiple books in my suitcase. My kindle will do more things than I've figured out how to do. I want them to be more intuitive, more user-friendly.
I'd love to see ALL text books available on ereaders.
I'd like to be able to convert my 3,000 title library to 2/3 digital. That is cost-prohibitive, though, since most of those titles don't come cheap.
I'd like digital books to be able to be read on any ereader, instead of having different formats for readers from different companies. I'd like to be able to buy ebooks from B&N for my kindle, for example. In the age of evolving technology, I don't want to have to keep buying the same book over and over again, like buying a movie on Beta, VHS, DVD, Blueray, etc..
I'd like better ways to organize and back up a digital library.
I'm told there is a way to do this, or that technology is evolving to do these things. When it becomes really easy and user friendly, I'll be glad.
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