/lit/ - Literature

Who really cares? Paper or plastic, the important thing is to read.

No sense debating this bullshit ad nauseum.

>>5286575
Because i am not a mundane like you.

>>5286586
just trying to get a sense of why? I mean I switched to readers a few years back and never bothered looking back.
On top of everything else they are super fucking cheap , you can get a no frills kindle current gen for like 70 bucks

For the same reason i need a real vag to fuck with. I could just buy a plastic one, but no, bc I need to bond, i need intimacy.

I go backpacking a lot, I'm not bringing my kindle with me
Very specific personal reason, but there it is

I only read Graphic Novels

>easy on the eyes

kek

e-readers are ugly. I have a kobo mini and the light can't be adjusted and has a really horrid yellowish tint. I prefer physical books with the nice white bright paper immensely.

I have a library less than 5 minutes from my apartment and the system has a huge variety

>>5286587
you are so not a mundane that you use adjectives as nouns: remarkable!

>>5286630
>kobo mini
>light
>>5286619
isn't it kind of the point that it's easier to carry the thing than it is a book? It seems a better logistical choice, provided you have a way to charge it.

>>5286861
You mad that I'm a brilliant and you're a lacklustre?

Yeah, you a mad.

I do both
I have an ereader and I buy cheap books

ereaders are useless for technical texts if I find a cheap used copy od rather get that instead

>>5286575
e-readers are for unsatisfied 30-40 something married women who read erotic novels on public transport and don't want people around them see the title of the piece of shit they call literature.

Go fuck yourself.

>>5286575

>taking the opinion of any pleb that has a 45 minute drive to work seriously

I bet you enjoy Chedders and Jason Mraz. Oh and how are the wife and 2.5 kids

When I read a particularly good book, I like to pass it on to someone else who might enjoy it.

It feels for personal then sending them a download link via txt message..

i am, the fuck, still reading paper books because i am tired of finding the epub of that book i loved was scanned by a troop of globus monkeys. the ends of paragraphs missing, a lot of the text - particularly if it's italicised - is laughably misread. when the author intended the word "b u r n" and the globus monkeys read that as "b u m".. well, it's funny. but it's not acceptable.

my epub of Poul Anderson's "The Broken Sword" is missing the entire last two chapters.

>>5286575
I am personally a big fan of e-readers, but to answer your question...

E-readers are expensive and can force you to put all your eggs into one basket. I use my iPad as an e-reader, for example, and would never want to take that to a place where it could be damaged or stolen. If either were to happen to my iPad, then I'm out of reading material and need to buy a new one. Nobody would think of stealing a book, though, and no harm's done if you drop it.

I don't care if they're better I just think they are tacky crap for the iphone generation. Hmm I think I'll do some reading, better get some electronic device with a screen because I am an impressionable, trend following fag with add.

>>5286619
my kindle battery lasts like three weeks on full charge with the wifi on, turn it off you have like a month, how long do you backpack for?

>>5286626
that's a good reason I guess.

>>5286933
>>5286928
I am not sure what Chedders is ? like the cheese ? I guess..... I choose to live in a more remote area, I like having a little bit of land. Are families suddenly out of style? You were not born into one? sorry bout that.

>>5287159
so you wont use one because youre a hipster? I might have guessed

>>5287159
but you do agree they are better?

>>5287159

It depends on the book. My girlfriend bought me the one from Barnes and Noble which is designed solely for reading (no flashy screen, 'e-ink'), and I found it a comfortable companion when reading larger books. I like my tomes of Moby Dick and War and Peace, but putting them aside, picking up the light device, and reading it on a soft, unobtrusive screen was a pleasant reading experience. I don't use it a lot but I can understand its appeal. It feels nice in the grip, too.

>>5287251
I could get that, I mean like I said I will still buy a book once in a while if I want a hard copy of the pictures or maps , but as far as the act of reading its much more comfortable on an ereader.

I don't think any readers should have flashy screens , they are cheep enough that it is ok for it to be for just one thing. E-ink is great and durable as shit!

An ebook will never open its pages and have money fall out of it.

>>5287271

>I don't think any readers should have flashy screens , they are cheep enough that it is ok for it to be for just one thing. E-ink is great and durable as shit!

I agree, but funnily enough the only way for e-readers to successfully penetrate the market seemed to be by transforming them, temporarily, into full-blown tablets--and then offering 'stripped-down' versions of them again, which were the original intent of the devices to begin with.

You can't imagine how many Kindle Fires I've encountered while out and about.

>>5287288
I see a kindle fire as a cheaper alternative to a tablet. I could never read on it , glossy screens and all.

The one from barnes and nobles - nook, I had that before I got a kindle has such a nice feel to it , the softness of the plastic stuff is great, until it fell in the tub ( which also ruins paper books ) the screen still work it just wasn't reacting right

>>5287271
Honestly if something doesn't have E-Ink it's not an e-reader, it's a tablet and probably a cheapo version, in either case, what is the point?

Might as well read from your phone

It gets to -40 in the winter here and it totally fucked up the screen on my first e-reader.

>>5287285

Okay that actually happened to me once. Found 20 bucks in a trivia encyclopedia. Never happened again.

>>5286575

Whatever happened to libraries? If you have the money to spend on trinkets, are you really living the literary lifestyle?

>>5287159
>I hate people who follow fads but make my choices based on what fad following people like
Congrats.

>>5287159
>I think I'm going to give someone a short message
>I'm not going to use the phone, you think I'm a trend following fag?
>I'm not going to use the computer, you think I'm a trend following fag?

>>5287413
Winnipeg?