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The Amazon Kindle and other E-Book Readers
celticgeek:
That is pretty cool.
I figure that I do not need a Kindle, although when I was doing a lot of traveling, it would have been nice. I have talked to several people, and there seems to be two kinds of people: people like me, who think it is pretty cool, but not necessary to their life styles; and people who absolutely HAVE to have one, use it a lot, and love it to death.
So, there you are.
JD:
Obsessions just hates seeing technology advance.
RedLion:
I just don't see the point. I like holding a firm, thick (hurrrr) book in my hands, being able to turn the pages...I don't know. The tactile part of it is like 25% of the experience for me. Music is different; it's already intangible, it just depends on the form it's it. Words, however, are tangible and I feel like they should be physically there. I already hate reading pdfs and such on computers.
I kind of think it's a dumb, unnecessary invention.
Tom:
Words are tangible?
Alex C:
I already prefer pdfs to books, so I could see myself getting one when the costs go down. It comes down to one simple thing: storage space and organization. Is that worth $250+ to me? No, but it's easy for me to say that when I already have a decrepit laptop filled with PDFs which I drag around to tabletop sessions in lieu of lugging around my rule books. If they shave the price down far enough and work the kinks out. I don't buy 70 books a year, but I do buy at least a dozen or so, and I'd be willing to pay a slight premium not to have to put up with having another physical object around.
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