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Old March 21st 17, 11:35 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , Ken Blake
writes:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:59:38 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| Looks like BluRay is fading away.
|
| Probably along with all forms of solid media.

Maybe. But that's what they said about books. Turned
out a lot of people like to have an actual book to read
and don't see any bargain in paying 50% of the cost
of the book to get nothing but rental access to a digital
version.



Leaving aside the price, I greatly prefer Kindle books for three
reasons:

1. I can easily take umpteen books with me when I travel. I take them
on my smart phone. If they were real books, I would have a giant
problem with weight and space in my luggage.


I can definitely see that. (I guess I just haven't flown anywhere for
years.)

2. Built into the Kindle app are multiple dictionaries and other
reference sources--different languages, slang, wikipedia, etc. I can
quickly and easily get to any of them as needed.


I can see that too.

3. I can quickly and easily go back to reread something on a page long
gone by. A search gets me there with no trouble.


Excellent.

On the whole, I like electronic copies of text for most of the same
reasons as you - certainly the searching one. (I like paper ones because
I can make notes [yes I know you can with some of the electronic ones,
but ...], although I still hesitate before "defacing" an actual book.) I
guess the main reason I haven't is, like Mayayana, I can't be bothered
with setting them up.

And since I can get Kindle books from the local library, price is
seldom a consideration.

I'd forgotten you could do that.
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