I love my books, I've got hundreds of them...
Imagine you have that Klindle thing, you read a book you really love... in 15 years time you remember that book and you want to read it again... do you honestly think it will be possible after the x-million upgrades of the software?
My books don't need upgrading... just a little dusting from time to time.
But that's just me, i'm really really a book lover. Love reading them, looking at them, touching them...
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11-09-2009, 08:15 AM #1
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11-09-2009, 08:52 AM #2
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I think I'd have about the same chance of having a book after 15 years and God only knows how many moves, etc. on a Nook as in hardcopy.
Grant if I really *love* it and want to keep it forever and ever, then I'd probably buy a hardcopy (more for display purposes than fear of the digital copy vanishing). The vast majority of my books aren't that special to me (but I still have a HUGE collection that is), however, and they get discarded, given to friends, sold, etc as I move around whereas I might have kept them and even read them again if they were on a harddrive. Physical books are expensive, heavy, and bulky to ship around the country.
Just saying that both options have their drawbacks and I don't think either will replace the other.
Having just reviewed the Nook's specs on the website I will most likely be buying one when they come out. Just the fact that it will natively store, organize, search, and allow me to mark up PDFs for my research is worth more to me than the asking price. I'm tired of printing off 30 page papers only to have a very poor organization (and FORGET trying to remember what quote was in what paper a year or even a month later) especially when I know I should be keeping up with all of it.
The newspaper and periodical reading feature is also very nice. No one wants to keep those forever excepting maybe an article or two (which you could print or store) and the paper savings from reading them digitally could be enormous.
Maybe I'll even grab a book or two that I otherwise wouldn't have purchased too, maybe not.
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