E-Readers and QUESTIONS
Well, I've had my Kindle e-reader for about a month now and I'm still completely enamoured of it. I carry it with me everywhere- John makes fun of me. Even in four weeks I can see how drastically it's adjusting my reading habits.
So I'm just curious...
Do you own an e-reader? Which one? How long have you had it? Are you happy with it? (it's interesting to me that more than one avid iPad user has told me they're rather heavy to use as e-readers, which steered me away from getting a tablet/ereader {though I wanted a Kindle Fire, and they aren't presently supported in Canada})
Where do you buy your e-books? Do you subscribe to e-magasines or e-newspapers? What proportion of e-books do you find you read now in comparison to paper books? Do you find yourself replacing the paper books you have with the same e-book?
Aside: I find it interesting that I read in an article recently that the two genres of books most-strongly resisting transfer to e-books are children's books and cookbooks. I can see that.
Are you as boggled as I still am that public domain books are legally free? I downloaded the complete Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes books a few weeks back from the Kindle store for 99 cents! (and knew with a bit more effort there are plenty of legal sites carrying them for free) How are publishing companies adjusting to this new reality?? I mean, before recently weren't classics a staple of bookstore sales?
Do you carry all your e-books on your reader all the time or just a selection you're interested in at any given time? My Kindle claims to hold 3500 books. I presently have 3-4 books and 1-2 manga series in my e-reader at any given time. Hard to imagine carrying 3500 :).
Though I could see a student carrying around a lot more e-books. Are e-readers as much a God-send to students as I think they must be? Man, as an English major in the "old days" I can just imagine what it would have been like to carry all my course books (often 10-12 books a course) in a single device.
Do you find it as weird as I do that the generation after ours may never known what having a physical library is like? (EDIT: Just to clarify- I mean a room in a home designated as a "library", not public libraries, which I believe will always be essential.)
So I'm just curious...
Do you own an e-reader? Which one? How long have you had it? Are you happy with it? (it's interesting to me that more than one avid iPad user has told me they're rather heavy to use as e-readers, which steered me away from getting a tablet/ereader {though I wanted a Kindle Fire, and they aren't presently supported in Canada})
Where do you buy your e-books? Do you subscribe to e-magasines or e-newspapers? What proportion of e-books do you find you read now in comparison to paper books? Do you find yourself replacing the paper books you have with the same e-book?
Aside: I find it interesting that I read in an article recently that the two genres of books most-strongly resisting transfer to e-books are children's books and cookbooks. I can see that.
Are you as boggled as I still am that public domain books are legally free? I downloaded the complete Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes books a few weeks back from the Kindle store for 99 cents! (and knew with a bit more effort there are plenty of legal sites carrying them for free) How are publishing companies adjusting to this new reality?? I mean, before recently weren't classics a staple of bookstore sales?
Do you carry all your e-books on your reader all the time or just a selection you're interested in at any given time? My Kindle claims to hold 3500 books. I presently have 3-4 books and 1-2 manga series in my e-reader at any given time. Hard to imagine carrying 3500 :).
Though I could see a student carrying around a lot more e-books. Are e-readers as much a God-send to students as I think they must be? Man, as an English major in the "old days" I can just imagine what it would have been like to carry all my course books (often 10-12 books a course) in a single device.
Do you find it as weird as I do that the generation after ours may never known what having a physical library is like? (EDIT: Just to clarify- I mean a room in a home designated as a "library", not public libraries, which I believe will always be essential.)