BookThing! » bookshops http://www.bookthing.co.uk A blog of myths, romance, fantasy and thrills (and book reviews!) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Some thoughts on Books and E-Readers http://www.bookthing.co.uk/2010/01/some-thoughts-on-books-and-e-readers/ http://www.bookthing.co.uk/2010/01/some-thoughts-on-books-and-e-readers/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:32:16 +0000 Grete http://www.bookthing.co.uk/?p=1110 [...] Related posts:
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Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Books and reading have always been a very tangible experience for me.  The smell of a new book or an old and much loved copy, the noise and sensation of turning a page, even turning down a corner of the page you are on (a crime to some I know!) if you need to put it down before the end.  I even prefer buying books in a store even though online shopping is so much easier.  I go into the shop with a sense of excitement about getting a new book, hoping they have one you want in stock or just choosing something new to read.  Mind you, I can rarely buy just one book and holding a few as you browse is part of the experience.  Then buying them and leaving the shop with a bag of books and a lot of anticipation.  Online you can usually get what you want but the wait for the delivery and then arriving in a box doesn’t bring about quite that same sense of excitement.

With the advent of E-readers, I’m a bit lost what to think.  I’ve never used one and only looked at ones for sale in Waterstones and online, so not had the experience for myself.  I can see the advantages – being able to carry a multitude of books on one device that is the size of one, but is that the only thing that would attract me?

Have I become so ingrained with my love of physical books since I was a young child that I wouldn’t be able to make the switch?  And would I want to? The other aspect that comes to mind as well is I use the computer for so many things already, my eyes like the break of reading text on paper.  Would I just feel as if I were still reading a computer screen?  The sun on a book page doesn’t really make much difference other than squinting slightly.  The sun on a screen is a totally different matter and makes it unreadable.

I’d be interested to know how people feel, who feel the same as I do about physical books but do use an E-reader anyway.  Or as I suspect I might be, are you too in love with paper books to want to do it a different way?

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