Unpopular Opinion Time!
On eBooks, eReaders, and normal books:
What's your opinion on eReaders/eBooks, normal books, and the recent closing of Borders (and local booksellers)? Agree with me? Disagree? Do you have an eReader?
I do. I have a nookColor (Barnes & Noble) and an Iconia Tab (Acer) that can double as one (as well as a tablet computer). Would you consider buying one, ever (ex. if the price went down)? Or are you a hardcore real-books-only-bitch kind of person?
To be totally honest, I prefer eBooks to real books sometimes. Like, when I’m off to school and I already have to carry around thirty pounds of textbooks, and then I want to bring along a book or two to read during my free time? It’s a heck of a lot easier to just stick my nookColor or tablet in my bag than to try and cram a few more books into my bookbag. Wasn’t Borders going under anyway, before the dawn of eReaders (and the recent popularity of them)? I know the one where I live was losing business long before any sort of eReaders became popular. If you want to blame something for causing family-owned or smaller bookselling chains for going out of business, I suggest you look towards Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Half-Price Books. Seriously.
Not that I don’t love normal books. I like how they smell and I love how the pages feel against my fingers. I also like the weight of them (when it’s not in my bookbag!), because I can drop them without worrying about breaking a $300-ish electronic device.
Unpopular opinion is unpopular? Why can’t eBooks and normal books just live in peace and bibliophilic love together?
WE CAN HAVE BOTH AND BE HAPPY.
What's your opinion on eReaders/eBooks, normal books, and the recent closing of Borders (and local booksellers)? Agree with me? Disagree? Do you have an eReader?
I do. I have a nookColor (Barnes & Noble) and an Iconia Tab (Acer) that can double as one (as well as a tablet computer). Would you consider buying one, ever (ex. if the price went down)? Or are you a hardcore real-books-only-bitch kind of person?