OT Blue
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:35:12 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
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.
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| 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.)
Then it's probably nowhere near as important to you as it is to me. I
typically fly somewhere 5 or 6 times a year.
But that can be an advantage even if you go somewhere not by flying.
For example you could drive somewhere that you will be at for a few
days. Weight and space in my luggage isn't as important if I'm
driving, but it can still be a pain to have to lug around big. heavy
luggage to and from the car.
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.
And a more minor point, but still a point,
4. I read in bed a lot, and my smart phone is much lighter and more
comfortable than a real book.
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 ...],
It's easy to do in Kindle. I don't do it because I very seldom buy
Kindle books, so I won't have it for long.
although I still hesitate before "defacing" an actual book.)
I never do. When I was a little boy, my mother taught me that a book
was my best friend. That stuck and to this day, I can't deface a
book.
I
guess the main reason I haven't is, like Mayayana, I can't be bothered
with setting them up.
Setting up Kindle is very easy. You hardly have to do anything.
And since I can get Kindle books from the local library, price is
seldom a consideration.
I'd forgotten you could do that.
I can, at my library here in the US. But I don't know about the UK.
Can you do that there too?
A good pun is its own reword.
I had to cut and paste that here, since it's part of your signature
and gets deleted in the quotation. But I couldn't resist telling you
how much I liked it!
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