Scots Taffer on 18/1/2011 at 01:11
My "coupled with a desire to save the trees" comment was more ironical than anything else. To be perfectly frank it's more an issue of space and cost - books take up a fuckton of room and with two kids, that's room I ain't got! Also, physical books tend to be distinctly pricier than their e-quivalents (see what I did there).
Renzatic on 18/1/2011 at 01:19
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
My "coupled with a desire to save the trees" comment was more ironical than anything else, to be perfectly frank it's more an issue of space and cost - books take up a fuckton of room and with two kids, that's room I ain't got! Also, physical books tend to be distinctly pricier than their e-quivalents (see what I did there).
But stacks of books can be used to make forts and racetracks for when your kids get into that appropriate everyday household items for adventure phase. By going all electronic, you're depriving them of childhood memories.
All they can do with a Kindle is break it.
Scots Taffer on 18/1/2011 at 01:52
Forts made of paperbacks won't hold out the floodwaters. I'll send them into the yard with a shovel.
Rug Burn Junky on 18/1/2011 at 01:59
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
When I read it I used two bookmarks: one for the normal text and one for the footnotes.
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
RBJ might be able to field this one...
I did pretty much the same thing with the double bookmarks, so remembering that, that's the first thing I checked with the ebook, because if the footnotes aren't easily accessible, it would destroy the experience.
The ebook I got my hands on has hyperlinked footnotes. Not that the navigation rocker on the kindle is great (it's a little tedious to move the cursor to the footnote itself), but it'll hop to the footnote text and back with just a couple of button presses. Certainly easier than juggling two bookmarks in that big book while standing on the Q train at 8:30 in the morning.
Stitch on 18/1/2011 at 16:00
This thread is remarkably well timed for me personally, as I'm just getting comfortable with my brand new Kindle, but I have the following two immediate observations on the format:
First: it's so impressive that I'm not sure I ever want to read a normal book again. Seriously.
Second: my Kindle has lured me into previously unsuspected depths of theft.
Aja on 18/1/2011 at 20:31
main problem with Kindle is when your friends come over, what's sitting on the shelves to impress them?
your video games??
when I'm in someone's house for the first time, I always gravitate toward their bookshelf. How else can we exhibit our identities? (I only hope that my shakespeare section outweighs or at least neutralizes the giant hardcover copy of The Da Vinci Code)
Stitch on 18/1/2011 at 20:36
wow em with your impeccable taste in 8 tracks
demagogue on 18/1/2011 at 21:40
You get the app that's like a virtual bookshelf where thumbnails of your book covers are hovering in space like a big globe, and you rotate through them and click the one you want to read.
Granted not very impressive on a small screen.
SubJeff on 18/1/2011 at 23:20
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when I'm in someone's house for the first time, I always gravitate toward their bookshelf. How else can we exhibit our identities?
Hilarious. What's all that about books, covers and judging?
I've a ton of books on the shelf, and yeah I think they look really nice and lend a certain gravitas. But I haven't read most of the books I own and I've met loads of people who are the same. As a barometer it's weak at best and useless at worst. How's about the girl who had 1984, Crime and Punishment and White Teeth, amongst others, on the bookshelf? I asked her something about 1984 and her reply? "Oh, I only read it because someone recommended it. It was pretty boring and I didn't really get it. Most of those books belong to my parents and friends but I've hardly read any of them."
Last time I saw her.
Scots Taffer on 18/1/2011 at 23:36
Sounds like Aja is a convert of the school of High Fidelity.
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I agree that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like... Books, records, films - these things matter. Call me shallow but it's the fuckin' truth...
