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Dead Tree OR Electrons - What are you reading? [Sat. Vanity]
Self | 09/21/13 | Self

Posted on 09/21/2013 6:53:41 AM PDT by SES1066

I have always been a reader and one of my snobbish instincts has been to shun people who do not read. Houses without books or magazines leave me cold. Yet now I realize that I have not bought a dead tree book in months and I have hit that Amazon link "Tell the publisher" many many times!

On my iPad I have more than 240 books plus several Bible versions and multiple periodicals. Now I find myself refreshing my mind about a particular passage in a book in minutes instead of almost never. Additionally, I am privileged to be able to audit Professor Donald Kagan's Yale course on Ancient Greece.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; kindle; nook; pages; paper; periodicals; reading
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; niteowl77
I still remember learning about Geneva Mechanisms in the book.

Just as some of the other responders have discussed the intimate feel of holding a book, similarly is the feel of fine machinery. A while back I indulged myself in buying one of the finest pieces of excellent machining that I believe exists; the Curta Calculator. I have not regretted this rather unnecessary purchase as every so often I exercise my mind while 'feeling' the sensuous synchronization of fine gearing. An amazing piece of machinery with an equally amazing history.

41 posted on 09/21/2013 11:39:02 AM PDT by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I prefer actual books. Just another way in which I don’t belong in the world anymore.

Right now I’m re-reading by beat up old copy of David G. Chandler’s Campaigns of Napoleon. Got it for Christmas when I was 12 years old and finished it by the end of the following summer vacation. Paying more attention to the political aspects of the Corsican’s career this time through.


42 posted on 09/21/2013 11:55:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statemet of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SES1066; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Uh, which one? ;’)


43 posted on 09/21/2013 12:00:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Don W
both. i have books all over the house, always have 1 with me but also have a NOOK and use it to test drive books in store to see if i want to buy them. always have library and inter library books in house. some i find really cheap electronically and it's nice to look up words while reading but, ignoring cost, i prefer a book in my hand. i also have a dumb phone, use FB just to check on family back east. don't text or twitter and wish most of the world, especially the federalis, would just leave me alone.
44 posted on 09/21/2013 12:29:23 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.)
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To: SES1066

This is the darndest thing.

I picked up some books at a used book sale a couple of weeks ago. A couple of days ago, I started reading one I THOUGHT was by Kurt Vonnegut. Just now, I looked at it and noticed it was NOT by him. For 101 pages, I thought I was reading Kurt Vonnegut. Geez.

It’s by Kim Wozencraft. Her first novel called “Rush.”

Very well written for a first novel.


45 posted on 09/21/2013 12:39:35 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: SES1066

The Screwtape Letters


46 posted on 09/21/2013 12:54:17 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama -> Fredo smart)
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To: SES1066

All the books at your fingertips until the power goes out.

And I have some photographic memory recall. Thumbing through a book, I can often (but not always) find a historical passage or quote I want to cite.
There are word searches in digital media I know, but I don’t file things in my head that way.

Being able to go to google and search for something isn’t the same as knowing it yourself and having the recall. I reference the books for FR and elsewhere to provide exact wording vs. my memory recall.

I just finished a book on the mafia, MCA, the music business, the justice department, the IRS, and LA courts.

Not sure what I’ll pick up next. I’ve got far more reading “to tackle” so I’m not looking at buying something right now.


47 posted on 09/21/2013 1:05:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SES1066

Dead Tree.

I have a Kindle, and it’s still in the box. Was a Christmas present 2012.


48 posted on 09/21/2013 8:47:33 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: SES1066

Jack Vance’s Planet of Adventure. The best classic lasers and swords planetary sci-fi ever written, all with the unique Jack Vance take on it. Actual book, a whopping big collection with all the books in the series. I might have to go electronic eventually to get some of the harder to find stuff from Vance.

Freegards


49 posted on 09/21/2013 8:56:16 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

Ghosts of the Broads by Charles Sampson. The author not only has collected many very old ghost stories of England’s Norfolk coast area but wrote them in incredibly historical and entertaining way.

The stories are hundreds of years old and often capture the medieval tales that otherwise would be forgotten. Ancient Saxon battles, ships of pirates floating in phosphorescence, lady of the lake phenomena, Roman battles, an ancient religious ceremony repeated every year in ghostly haze for whoever is sensitive enough to ‘see’...much more.

Very entertaining. All tales sworn to be true.


50 posted on 11/17/2013 11:26:24 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: SES1066

I have a Kindle. I use it to download free samples.

Then if I like a sample, I usually buy the book in hardcover.

Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books: http://mic.com/articles/99408/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books


51 posted on 10/06/2014 9:31:56 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason

Thanks for the link, very interesting and thought-provoking. I have a library room in my house that I need to work upon, problem is the siren-song that my friends weave, enticing me to spend some time with them ... Uh, where did the day go?!

Again thanks for reminding me of this posting of mine!


52 posted on 10/07/2014 4:42:24 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: left that other site

Totally agree, real books involve all the senses. I have a Nook, but prefer real books because of the look, feel, smell, and sound. Mostly I use my Nook for internet when in bed. It’s smaller and lighter than a laptop.


53 posted on 10/07/2014 4:54:13 AM PDT by kalee
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To: SES1066
Needful Things S. King (again)
The Strain Guillermo del Toro Chuck Hogan
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography (again)

All being read on my Fire Phone/Kindle Fire though I have Franklin's Autobiography several times over in dead tree media (both paperback and hardback) and also have King's Needful Things in Hardback.

I love my Kindle Fire and my Fire phone for reading. But I still buy books in hardback form and sometimes paperback (which I detest) I know eventually the inevitable Zombiepocalypse will be upon us and electricity will be at a premium. Dead tree media needs nothing but daylight to function and if need be can be used to start fires and/or as a source for emergency T.P. ;)

54 posted on 10/07/2014 4:54:39 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals
"I am sold on the Kindle."

The Wife had to drag me kicking and screaming into the land of Kindle. Now I have a Fire Phone as well and you would need to do violence to get them away from me. I love real books in Hardback, but being able to peruse literally hundreds of thousands of books on the internet and having any I want with just a few clicks on the Kindle is so awesome especially when you can read a sample for free.

55 posted on 10/07/2014 4:59:43 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: kalee

It is like the difference between digital music in the earbuds and going to the Symphony! :-)

Enjoy your reading! :-)


56 posted on 10/07/2014 4:59:58 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: jjr153
"Any recommendations, Kindle, Nook, other?

Kindle best buy for the money, hands down.

57 posted on 10/07/2014 5:01:35 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

The amount of free and low cost books is amazing. And the Kindle is easy to handle compared to a book.


58 posted on 10/07/2014 6:17:41 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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