Ebook readers

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I could see a use of an E-book for my academic studies. Having all my reference books and journal articles in one "place" where I can quickly search between them would be valuable when I am writing my papers or doing research in a library.

But for my recreational reading it has to be books all the way. I love the library I have in my house. I have books there from the early 1800's and up. The smell and texture of books can't be replicated in bits and pixels.

Books have been faithful friends of mine for many years. I can't see abandoning them for a computer screen.

Yes.

Just wanting to note that I used to compare texts page by page and side by side, sometimes with several open books on the table, side by side. That is faster and easier to overwatch and quicker to switch between chapters than needing to do it all on just one tiny display.

It reminds me a bit on the "revolution" they promsied when elctronic organisers came out. It still makes me chuckle when I see somebody using a Palm or a similiar device to find an adress or worse: to enter a new adress. A simple old-fashioned paper organiser with calender, adresses, and a register lets you find what you need faster, and lets you enter dates, information and adresses quickier. Plus I have seen more than one person now starting to curse when realsing that his precious electornic gadget - has stopped to work when he switched it on.

Leave such things to where they have a good purpose: attach a barcode scanner to them and use them for managing magazine content and items sorted in the shelves. For this and comparable things such devices are great, relieve you of much paperwork, and are much quicker.