Have you changed your buying habit entirely?
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Have you shifted to e-books and e-reader entirely?
Do you think the physical bookshops and books will extinct one day? If so, will you miss them?
I will definitely miss them for many reasons stated in the article below.
No End of Physical Bookshops and Books Please
Do you think the physical bookshops and books will extinct one day? If so, will you miss them?
I will definitely miss them for many reasons stated in the article below.
No End of Physical Bookshops and Books Please
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The only time I read proper books is in the bath! Too scared of damaging it.
It will cost to replace but I keep a back up of all my books in calibre which I also back up onto a nas drive from my laptop. If my kindle stops working then I will have to fork out for another but it is worth it for me. I am an avid and very quick reader so I spend at least a couple of hours a day with it. I spend more time with my kindle than with my phone or watching telly or my laptop (excluding work stuff).
No intentions whatsoever in buying an e-reader, in the same way as I've no intentions of buying any other digital media storage device.
I just love everything about books. I love old books - if I can I will order a worn old paperback of a book on Amazon for 001p, and hope it comes through slightly yellow and with the old smell. You can't beat a worn but intact old penguin from the 60s or 70s.
So it's nothing to do with nostalgia - I am willing to embrace most new technologies but there are too many people who love real books for them to ever become obsolete.
I won't buy any books from Amazon - I buy them all from my local independent bookshop. The owners are helpful and friendly, and run lots of local events. I often search for a title on Amazon, take a screenshot on my iPod, and take that into the shop with me. If they don't have it in stock, they will order for you, usually takes 2 days, and give you a call when the book is in.
If I buy a physical book I can read it just about any time I want, I don't have to worry about what happens when change phones and whatnot, and I can loan, or just give, the copy to a friend, or even leave it in a public place for somebody else to pick up and read.
I couldn't do any of those things with an e-book, could I? I mean, technologically most of those things are easy to do, but in practice we have a horrible little thing called digital rights management that effectively hobbles the book and makes it less convenient in some ways than the paper book it replaces.
So I stick to free books that I could get a free copy of any time from just about anywhere.