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1371612 No.1371612 [Reply] [Original]

Requesting the kindle vs books where it shows kindle kicks books ass.

>> No.1371615

>>1371612
image*

>> No.1371635

A truthful version of this is non-existent.

>> No.1371739

bump for interest

>> No.1371807

Book: Buy it, it sits on your shelf as long as you wish.

Kindle: Buy it, Amazon deletes it whenever they wish, you don't actually own the book, in 10 years you won't be able to show it to a friend or reread it or hold it in your hand because it is just a cloud of digital information that has no real physical substance. (And because Amazon deleted it from your Kindle 5 years earlier)

/thread

>> No.1371812

>>1371807
>implying you can't pirate the ebook again
>implying you couldn't still have the kindle after ten years
>implying you can't hold technology in your hands

>> No.1371817

Book: Published in 1889, handed down from generation-to-generation, sits on your shelf gathering dust but looking and smelling beautiful.

eBook: Bought for $8.00 the other month. Won't be able to access it in 10 years because your technology is too outdated, your Kindle broke (all electronics have a relatively short lifespan) or died out (went the way of cassette tapes and VHS), or somehow got erased in the obvious temporary nature of digital information.

Book 1; Ebook 0

>> No.1371826

>>1371812
Do you still use your discman?
Your Yak back pen?

>> No.1371828

Sitting on a plane with a friend, I was reading a book, he was reading from a Kindle, bragging about how good it was.

Come into landing, turn off all electronic devices. Had problems with landing so it took 45 minutes.

He sat there doing nothing because he had to turn his Kindle off. I read from my book.

Book 2; Ebook 0

>> No.1371831

Book falls in water, lay out in sun to dry.

Kindle falls in water. You understand.

Book 3; Kindle 0

>> No.1371950

Book: Smells better the older it gets.

Kindle: .... Didn't think this one through but OMFG old books smell so damn good.

Books:4 Kindle:0

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>>1371950

Why does this argument always end up people like to smell books?

Not that I mind, i'm just curious. Have terrible sinuses so can't ever smell anything anyway...

>> No.1372071

>>1372060
Smell is strongly linked with memory, and people on /lit/ most likely have good memories of old books.
That and musty books do smell pretty good.

>> No.1372160

Books are like a whole package made to compliment a single piece of literature. It would be like buying a whole new TV for each new movie you wanted to watch. Or a new game system for each new game. That's why it's really so awesome and beautiful: each book is customized to suit the words inside. With an E-Reader, all books have the same binding. It's simply not as special.

That said, not all books necessitate their own special physical manifestation. Ideally, you buy the ones you particularly like, and since you're spending money, you might as well spend it on a really special thing, like a physical copy.

>> No.1372175

5 hardcovers - $150
kindle - $139

and from that point, books come for free.


Books:4 Kindle:1

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>>1372175
Don't forget the enormous amount of out of print books and pirated books you can get on Kindle for free.

Books: 4 Kindle: 2

>> No.1372201

Eh, shit's going digital. I don't mean books, I mean everything. TV, movies, music, games. All forms of media are being replaced by digital counterparts. And at the onset of every one of these new media (mp3 players, for example) it's a large enough shift that people get clingy to their older format. There's always discussion, there's always waffling, there's always people who don't yet get that the value of ownership doesn't change just because the media does. Eventually the new technology is so widespread that nobody really questiions it.

It will happen with e-readers. It will probably take a while, though. Of all the entertainment media gone digital, pre-digital books have the longest history, and will be the longest to disappear. In fact, they may never. Nobody really makes or buys 8-track tapes anymore, but 8-track was only the leading format for a few years, where books have been for hundreds. The history will keep people referring back to them.

>> No.1372216

>>1372187
>pirating books

just got to the fucking library

>> No.1372221

are ebooks cheaper than books? what is the price difference approximately?

>> No.1372226

>>1372221
eBooks are free; if you pirate them.

>> No.1372228

>>1372221
Most ebooks are around 10 dollars.

Some older books dip bellow 10 dollars but most are over 10 in the 20 dollar range.

>> No.1372385

Calling all /lit/friends:
we need to take all of society's books and move them into a deep cavern, protected in plastic sheathing and safe for all eternity... or, at least, 10,000 years - which I think is how long it takes plastic to degrade. And then maybe another 250 for the books themselves.

Who's with me?
We're going to start a colony of people with some fucking brains. Fuck your technological changes

>> No.1372428

I hate when people pick a side like it's a fucking war.

I intend to buy books I really love still. I'll leaf through them, write in them, keep them, smell them.

But I also intend to read like a motherfucker. And I couldn't carry around a whole library with me until a kindle.

Why choose one or the other? I use both, and am all the better for it.

>> No.1372451

>>1372428
I'm with this guy.