Bright screens, arched backs, honestly how can you guys stand it?
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Bright screens, arched backs, honestly how can you guys stand it?
Well I turn down the brightness and contrast and watch my enormous LCD screen that's strategically attached to the ceiling above my luxury 4 poster bed. That's how... I do it ..and you?
I print out if I wanna read. I can't do it on the screen, it knackers me eyes....
Lol that's hot.
I don't like ebooks. I ruins the [reading] experience for me. I read anywhere from crowded subways to gym locker-rooms, so luggin' around a laptop ain't gonna work. I heard some people put ebooks on pda's, though, and that's cool.
I might actually try that. Maybe there is a pda that has a usb port for my flash drive.
dude benchez, you better have put that print quality on draft, and black-and-white, because ink is kinda expensive. not to mention the paper. i don't want to do the math, put printing out a 2-300-page book might cost around 7 dollars. It depends on the ebook though, because some use a lot less ink than others.
Still i'd hate to be the one who has to staple together a 300-page book. Maybe staple it in chapters? Still a hassle to archive. Then again, maybe you have the big ol' filing cabinet for printed ebooks.
Just another thought, it would be more convenient (at least for me) if you bought a printer that, instead of printing 8-by-11.5in sheets, it printed something more like 5-by-7.2in sheets.
I print them and I have them soft-bounded..:D
I use my laptop at night and listen to audio books when I am on the road.
same here but now i'm into audio books mainly
Yeah, audio books are great for people who are verbal learners.
I can't do ebooks, i can however to e-magazines, don't really know why.
I sometimes listen to audiobooks but then I feel like I'm in elementry school again.
i think audio books were originally invented for the disabled but everyone is "on the go" that people just use them alot more.
i pop something that interests me into my mp3player or listen off the laptop on the commute to work or when im out on a walk. ebooks are the best things ever :)
I simply take the Ebook, turn it vertically on screen, turn the screen itself vertically, and well, it gives me the feeling i'm reading an actual book.
Actually i am wondering the same thing for quite some time... i can't seem to find the reason :blink:
I can read from a screen just fine, I guess I've been doing it for 15 years, kind of got used to it.
I will definitely choose a hard copy book if I can, over an ebook. But searching is a major plus. And being able to copy paste. And the storage requirements for 50k ebooks is significantly less than 50k RL books.
Well, to answer the question of ebooks' appeal... you can get them for free...
But, personally, I can't stand ebooks. Staring at a monitor with nothing but lines and lines of text just feels too weird.
I transfer my ebooks to my PDA and read them wherever I want. Also, thanks to ebooks, I'm willing to try a lot more titles since it's free. When I travel, I can carry 1000s of ebooks on my PDA, which takes up less space then a paperback.
Best way to read ebooks is with a ebook reader:
http://www.nealford.com/images/sony_ereader_closeup.png
These pieces of kit use something called e-ink.
When you change the page magnetic ink flows to the parts where the word is but the plus side is it's practically like reading a book since there is no backlit LCD messing your eyes up.
You can store thousands of books on a decent sized memory card and in a few years there will be ebook readers with flexible displays and proper colour:
http://www.intertechusa.com/images/h...rAnimation.gif
It looks like e-reading is the future
I've got the Sony Reader - awesome piece of kit. Otherwise ebooks are just as the first poster described!
I like using them based on that fact that they're free!
You can actually read books with your symbian cellphones! Very handy if you don't have pdas and you don't want to bring around your laptop to read. I've seen the program for java phones and I'm not really impressed..
I only read Ebooks that are too expensive to buy in hard copy. But i find technical books very useful in digital form, because of the fast searching ability and copy past. I'm also very anal about the condition of my books, so when i'm able to have the book open on the screen I can flip back and forth from what I'm doing to the book, where as a hard copy I would have to have it laid out on the table next to me and that usually creases the spine.
e-learning is better, but i have no problem reading ebooks.
I like to have ebooks to supplement the actual book if im reading it in school. that way I can ctrl + f certain passages for quotations, and crtl f recurring symbols etc.
makes school work easier
Portable & they take up less space :)
Love ebooks. Nothing but endless knowledge 90% of the time. Love audiobooks as well but still prefer ebooks over them.
I used to listen to audiobooks all the time during my hour long commute to work. After changing jobs, and having a 10 minute commute, it doesn't work so well.
It depends on the book, if its just black and white with a bad font, then its very annoying/hard to read. It depends on the presentation of the ebook. Although, I would rather have something to hold. Even books have glare ;)
Sony Reader FTW
Sony 505 I have had as many as 2100 e-books on it. Currently carry about 500. Very long battery life, easy on the eyes, when I travel internationally finding something to read in English can be problematic and I am a voracious reader. A wealth of free or almost free e-books in various formats are available on the net....well worth the initial investment. IMHO....
I guess because theyre mostly free :D
I like E-books because I read so damn fast and go through so many books that I ended up having to throw them away when i was done and I was spending a fortune on them.
I load them up on my PDA phone and read them that way. It's not the same experience as a real book, but it gets the job done. Plus it's self lighting so I can read in bed etc with no light.
That's assuming you are using a laptop. My PDA phone is more portable than a book and I've usually got several Ebooks on it.
I don't think I'll ever be able to read an e-book all the way. The main reason is because they're free, most of them. A college textbook costs at least $150 now depending on the class. If it's an English class about $50 total. If it's econ, math, chem, etc be prepared to pay $150+ per book. But to each his own.
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Have none of yous never heard of teh Amazon Kindle?? it's the freakin' ipod of ebooks!!!
Kindle 2 just came out! DEFinitely gettin one!
I never knew of the Sony Reader. I'll have to look into it. Read books or comics on the computer just sucks, I do it anyways though. But that pic of that Sony Reader posted a couple pages back looks great.
Actually that Amazon Kindle looks bad ass. A little pricey though.
Ebooks are not a replacement for real books and never will be
WildEyes on iPhone FTW