<p>What does everyone on CC prefer to read from: printed books, or e-books? I'm referring to books that you would read in your free time, not textbooks.</p>
<p>Personally, I will never give in to the whole e-book craze. I cringe every time I walk into Barnes & Noble or into Borders and see an overly-peppy salesman promoting the "Nook," "Kindle," etc. It just seems so odd. There's just something alluring about being able to hold an actual printed book in your hands while you're reading it. And, as odd as this sounds, I love the smell of books and of bookstores; I have absolutely no idea why I do. I think it's just because I'm such a bookworm. Haha!</p>
<p>So, what is your preference?</p>
<p>Once you own a few rooms full of books, you start to really appreciate a device that can hold 10,000 books.</p>
<p>I prefer printed books because then I can open them whenever I want. With e-books, you have to turn your computer/Kindle on.</p>
<p>I want to get a Nook, but I don’t really have enough time to just read books to see the point in getting it now. It would have been more useful in high school actually, when I had to read a bunch of required novels for lit classes and such, but I don’t know that I’d use it in college.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about getting a kindle, but my biggest problem isn’t the lack of the feel of an actual book, like most people hesitant about it seem to say, but that I like to reread books. I have about 10-20 books that I constantly reread, and I only read a few new books a year (for pleasure). If I’m going buy the kindle, what’s the point if every time I want to reread a book, I have to go get the actual book? Or alternatively, spend a couple hundred dollars re-buying books I already own. If this wasnt an issue, I think I’d already have one, as my dad seems determined to get me one.</p>
<p>I use my ipod touch as my ebook reader.</p>
<p>I still like the feeling of holding a real book though.</p>
<p>Half/Half for me.</p>
<p>Both have their advantages.
I think you can’t dismiss an ereader until you’ve read a book on one.</p>
<p>Print books are essential for young children .</p>
<p>Printed. You gotta get away from the computer screen sometime.</p>
<p>nerdasaurus, I feel the exact same way, even down to the smell factor. Maybe it’s weird, but I just love the smell of the pages. I did try to read on a Kindle this year; I wanted to read Anna Karenina, and a friend had it on his Kindle. Although it was better than I had expected, I gave up after a few chapters. One, because there were no actual page numbers, and two, because I like being able to go back and reread specific passages, and pressing “Previous Page” thirty times gets tiring.</p>
<p>Definitely printed. I just need the feeling of turning the pages of a book and leaving a book mark and so on</p>
<p>“I just love the smell of the pages”</p>
<p>This. A thousand times.</p>
<p>I love everything about books. I love the weight in my hand, the crispness of the page, the scent. I love getting a brand new paperback and hearing the crack as you bend the pages (if you’ve ever gotten a brand new one, you get what I’m saying, as weird as it sounds). </p>
<p>I love getting a particularly old one (I just got a Dickens from 1899), and just burying my nose in the spine. </p>
<p>“Once you own a few rooms full of books, you start to really appreciate a device that can hold 10,000 books.”</p>
<p>Not really. My family has enough books to where we converted a spare bedroom in our home into a library. Just entering the room, and inhaling the scent of the books puts me in a good mood. I love the way I catalogued them (yes, I’m a nerd), but I also love just browsing through them, and finding one I haven’t read in a while.</p>
<p>I’ll never switch to ebooks, ever.</p>
<p>^ Agree with this so much.
The only reason I would get an ebook is if I was saving space while traveling…aside from that I rely to much on electronics to begin with so I’ll stick with my printed books.</p>
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<p>Oh yeah?! Well I open up my books half way through, and stick them in my pillow case with my pillow so I can lay on it all night and smell it! Smell it hard! Then I take about 5 books open them half way through and strap them to my back, so I can pretend their spine is my spine! Hardcore yo.</p>
<p>^You don’t have to keep a book charged though.</p>
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Kinda a moot point considering that battery tech has evolved to the point that e-book readers, laptops, tablets…etc have over 5~8 hours battery life, and can charge up fully in less than 45 minutes(charge while you read even).
Given that PSU for these items are low profile as well they easily fit in a pocket or backpack, hardly a shortage of outlets or usb plugins to charge the items as well. For such a small thing you gain so much more.</p>
<p>In the same way you don’t have to charge up landline phone, you lose mobility as compared to a cell phone.
You might have to charge up a e-book reader, but you gain a lot more than a normal book offers. i.e internet, more than one book, clock, alarm, calculator, games…etc.</p>
<p>Very true but I buy my books for the reading, and I have a LOT of flight time so 5-8 hours doesn’t cut it for me but yeah it is more portable. I just prefer paper over a touch screen…really it comes down to personal preference.</p>
<p>True, admit that its hard to put a price on the…I guess “sentimental value?” of owning a hard copy of a book. </p>
<p>Not sure if thats the right word…But you get what I mean.</p>
<p>I like hard copies of books, but I think that if I was trying to get books for college, I might try and look for an e-book if it was cheaper. I personally only have a laptop though, so that’s what I’d have to use the e-books on. Not as good as a normal book, in my opinion. Especially since I carry a decent sized bag-pack with me at all times for small books that I can read for pleasure.</p>
<p>Cheaper? You can get fairly cheap e-book readers. The NOOK and Kindle aren’t the only brands out there.
I personally have e-book software of my desktop, laptop and ipod touch. Which allows me to read books anywhere.
The money you save is on the cost of books. E-books even on newly released books are cheaper than hard copies. Depending on how much you read, you can, over time spend less on e-books vs paper copies.</p>