Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for November 02, 2012

I would be leery of using a Kindle n the bath tub.

well, i’ve always thought that electronic books can’t hold a kindle to the printed page…

In our family we have a e-reader, first gen nook, kindle fire and a iPad 2 (I think). And two bookcases over flowing with books. I like the easy of traveling with the kindle, but I love the feel of a book in my hands.

for some reason i can lose my self in a good book but not in a n e reader!

Surely it’s the meaning of the words and not the method of delivery that’s important. After all, both the book and the e-book have to be read.

The biggest problem is that you can’t get used e-books for $0.50 at the Goodwill or garage sales.

E-books will kill printed media the same way television killed radio. Nobody listens to THAT anymore…

and when the power goes out and you cant recharge your e-reader, there is always a few candles and plenty of books in my house!

Rush Limbaugh saved radio! Thank you Rush … ::cough:: ::cough::

I prefer solid made from paper books. I never worry about a power outage keeping me from reading the books I have. However, my wife is constantly trying to get me to get rid of my old books. She doesn’t understand that re-reading a book is like visiting an old friend.

In my “paperback/magazine room”, I also view books as insulation. They’re so packed in, they’re a fire retardant as well.

Brings to mind the protagonist in Pournelle and Niven’s Lucifer’s Hammer who carefully preserved and cached copies of “How Things Work” for the survivors to find.A damn good read if you run across a copy.

That’s not Laura.

check on an item on Amazon, and the political ad will be replaced by that item. I think that’s better. ??

When nicely bound, books are nice to just look at, reminiscing on the contents within. My Sherlock Holmes set has Holmes and Watson along the faces of the books.

But, I must admit admiring electronic media, I get all your comments, and save “both” the good ones in my electronic diary; which is printed out daily, so that I can scribble notes, slip in post-its, autumn leaves, etc.

I like “tabbing” my magazines and underlying phrases in my paperbacks. I place notes (on paper) in my more valuable books.

Further, I’ve developed a bit of software that acts as my servitor. Setting it up was and is a bitch (note: proper word) to maintain, but much less so than buying another copy, electronic or not.

It was my brain that was the problem, not the ephemera.

Merging books and electronics is the answer: print on demand. BUT, a princely book is art, visit my home and discover this. You cannot ever do this on a Kindle.

I still have plenty of books on the shelves (for power outages), I just don’t buy new ones. And my wife has trouble with her hands, so she can’t hold a book of any size very long, but her Kindle is fine. She’s read more books in the last couple of years with that than she has her whole life before.

Ah, but one can only read a Kindle etc. after the Hurricane until its battery runs out, a book can be read ongoing. Similarly those with VOIP digital phones cannot get calls without electric, those of us with copper wire can, even when the cell phone towers/antennas go out after the storm.