tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post9118515528363895452..comments2024-03-19T08:40:08.664-07:00Comments on MISS CAVENDISH: Kindle: Akin to Books?Miss Cavendishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17461488799928956875noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-58520783369480131222009-03-23T11:00:00.000-07:002009-03-23T11:00:00.000-07:00I believed as you, fellow booklovers. I have a per...I believed as you, fellow booklovers. I have a personal library of thousands of books. And I thought reading on an ereader would be like reading on a laptop.<BR/><BR/>Then my husband gave me a Kindle 2.<BR/><BR/>It cuddles. Oh, it does cuddle. I love to snuggle in bed with my Kindle in my lap, or on the pillow beside me, while I nurse the baby or just before I go to bed.<BR/><BR/>Epaper. Not like a laptop at all. It's so wonderful. Once I turn a page, I can let it sit, and don't have to hold it open. As soon as I hear of a good book, I can buy it and start reading it a minute later. Oh, the instant gratification!<BR/><BR/>Now my husband is deluded if he thinks this means I am going to give away my treebooks. Never, never. But I do love my kindle.Tara Mayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095632631554776002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-56551909131732573372009-01-15T19:31:00.000-08:002009-01-15T19:31:00.000-08:00I am 100 percent with you Miss Cavendish! Books ar...I am 100 percent with you Miss Cavendish! Books are wonderful as objects and nothing can replicate the experience of holding one and turning paper page after paper page...<BR/>Digital technologies are terrific and so useful in so many ways, but a book is a book is a book and Kindle, or the Sony Reader, or anything else where you read on a screen will never compare to a book no matter what the companies selling them try to tell us!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060330705058489120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-43590861719808722452009-01-14T15:36:00.000-08:002009-01-14T15:36:00.000-08:00Bundle.I like book books. Paperbacks with good cov...Bundle.<BR/><BR/>I like book books. Paperbacks with good covers. Some of the new cover paperstock is good... a little tacky.. but some are too sticky, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-1327987742317221222009-01-13T23:41:00.000-08:002009-01-13T23:41:00.000-08:00I just wrote a comment on my blog just moment ago ...I just wrote a comment on my blog just moment ago saying I will never give up books for one of these. I love books and hope that as long as I am alive there will be paper books. The day after I die those who remain can decide what they want to do about books or not to books and I will be fine with whatever you all decide.;-)La Belette Rougehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05686717070120116918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-32288098694887109942009-01-13T20:12:00.000-08:002009-01-13T20:12:00.000-08:00I'm a Luddite, and will only migrate over to Kindl...I'm a Luddite, and will only migrate over to Kindle when there are no paper books left anywhere. And even then, I'll still try to find some.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03406942482508439839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-59567738242427121242009-01-13T14:46:00.000-08:002009-01-13T14:46:00.000-08:00I bought a Kindle for MrB but I need to set it up ...I bought a Kindle for MrB but I need to set it up for him, of course. I like to write in and dog-ear my important books so a Kindle won't substitute for that. But I might read more books that aren't so important to me on the Kindle, seeing as I don't have to make space for them physically like I do if they're from the bookstore (running out of room) and I don't have to schlep to the library.WendyBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985099019783464580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105587296187650411.post-21856654006318388802009-01-13T11:38:00.000-08:002009-01-13T11:38:00.000-08:00For me, the aesthetic and even kinaesthetic (turni...For me, the aesthetic and even kinaesthetic (turning the pages, the weight of the book in my hands) are an important part of the whole book experience. I understand that Kindle comes closer to that in terms of the reading surface, but smell? texture?<BR/>Plus, while I haven't tried one personally, I understand that the page-turning is still not as quick as in old-fashioned paper technology. Plus so far the digital won't be able to replace the analog in terms of finding a spot to recover a remembered passage -- I do that by a combination of remembering where the passage sat on the page as well as what other passages were around it and whether it was in the first quarter or the last seventh of the book, calibrated by feel and book experience. I'll be quite happily sitting this one out for at least another decade.materfamiliashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062766947897513369noreply@blogger.com