Heart of the City by Steenz for January 11, 2011

If Mom’s buying all those books for her, the Kindle would be cheaper in the long run… (Strange, it’s usually dolls littering her floor, not books!)

Yeah, but you can’t whack a kid with a kindle………………

Better get her REAL books because in the long run she’ll be much happier. Real books are like best friends, you wouldn’t want your best friend to be an unemotional slab of wires that you can’t curl up with and smell and flip pages. Plus her eyes will be healthier because reading words on a screen for long periods of time gives people like me a nasty headache.

At least she reads. I talked to a girl a couple weeks ago who didn’t even know what Treasure Island was. Sad.

TI wasn’t exactly a ladies book anyhow, Con. Ask her about Nora Roberts and you might have a talking ground.

It’s the smell, Miba. Ask Buffy’s Librarian.

That’s the difference with a Kindle, Miba, it’s not like reading words on a screen, it’s like reading words on paper. I know first hand, I owned a 2nd generation Kindle and now I have the latest generation Kindle and I LOVE it.

My daughter loves her Kindle and before I got her own for her, she was always stealing mine.

Hey Miba, I’m with you. No electronic gizmo can’t take the place of a book which you can get from the library for FREE and yes turning the pages is just a nostalgic treat. :)

I’m with bossyheifer.

Turning the pages. How quaint.

Con, if that girl’s at the right age for Treasure Island, there’s a good chance she’s familiar with the Little House books. My older sister read them all, but I never heard of them until the TV series came along.

Well, with some e-readers, but not the Kindle, you can check books out from the library or get the out-of-copyright ones on the Web for FREE. Project Gutenberg and the Adalie University Electronic text Collection are both great resources for the old stuff. My local library has well over 10,000 recent ebooks to lend.

Real e-readers do not have backlighting so they are just like reading paper, not a computer screen. I enjoy mine.

There are some drawbacks. They are not really simple to use. They do not have color.

I still buy and read paper books. The books I treasure, I’ll want to have on the shelf and experience the smell, touch, etc. For light reading (Tarzan, Allan Quatermain, Doctor Who) the ereader devices work just fine.

Oh man, Kindle is over 10 years old and counting.