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View Poll Results: Ebooks or Books - Which is better? | |||
Ebooks | 6 | 7.50% | |
Books | 48 | 60.00% | |
Never read an ebook before but eyes sometimes get sore reading forums too much. | 9 | 11.25% | |
Either is fine with me | 17 | 21.25% | |
Voters: 80. You may not vote on this poll |
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2006-03-25, 09:38 | Link #21 |
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Join Date: May 2004
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When reading eBooks, a good LCD screen is mandatory or else your eyes will hate you. With real books, well; it has been said before. Ritual, something you can touch, and easier to read. Can't pass those until some serious technological advancements have been done.
Still, PDF format eBooks are a valid choise, even if not as good. They take no space, you can read them anywhere (if they are compatible with cellphones), and often they are free to view. But the fact is that books in general are not even nearly as popular as other forms of entertainment (like anime). Personally, I don't want to waste space for something I use only twice every three or four years and I don't have much money to spend either, so eBooks are the way to go. But they both are fine with me, by principal. |
2006-03-25, 09:50 | Link #22 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Oh well, I'm an ebook supporter Unless I need immediate reference to something (like a core rulebook in D&D and the like, or a limited hardcover edition of LotR, etc), I'd have ebooks anytime (not scanned though, scanned books are not ebooks, their fonts and size is not optimized for screen display, so they tend to be a bit hard to read and the scan is often low quality).
And no, I don't get any bodily symptoms when reading ebooks. On the contrary SOMETHING has to hurt eventually when I get down to read a paperbook for long periods of time. The nice things that paperbooks have are 1) Decoration 2) Fill Library space 3) They smell nice usually
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2006-03-25, 12:50 | Link #24 |
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Edinburgh
Age: 42
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Well ebook are quite handy for researching stuff, since you can get electronic
journals faster than requesting a hardcopy from a local library. However for domestic pleasures and archiving documents, i doubt that ebook will replace paper (and microfilms). |
2006-03-25, 13:01 | Link #25 | |
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Paper books aren't obsolete just yet, but I'm hoping they will be once e-ink technology catches on. Books are annoying things, really. With paperbacks, you have to constantly keep it open. Hardcovers are heavy and unwieldy. Magazines and such are weak and need some kind of support to be read. Furthermore, they're difficult to search in and get damaged and dirty easily.
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2006-03-26, 15:18 | Link #28 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Germany
Age: 39
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I don't think books will become obsolete too soon. You must consider some special groups besides the readers:
I think writers still prefer the paper version if they are interested in getting money from it. It is more difficult to "corrupt" or copy books (although not impossible, but the products won't be that good). I have also experienced that those gloomy scientists avoid digitalized data (well... computing in general) at all costs. Well, of course, books on paper are less prone to get lost or changed and are more handy to cite (the probability of your library getting destroyed is, currently, much lower than the probability of your data storages getting unusuable). In addition, ever thought about the future? In future, you will still need your eyes only to read a book, but digital data must be handled by a device - if it can do that. Just remember those floppy disks, and you might understand what I mean... |
2006-03-26, 16:32 | Link #30 |
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I like the concept of eBooks because of the convenience of bringing lots of information around. Imagine not needing large and heavy school bags to bring text books to school. I come from a country where children have to do that because schools (except some private schools) do not have lockers. Even schools with lockers (e.g. in the U.S.) can save money on the big lockers if students do not need them to store all their text books.
Also, consider the people who need books as references throughout the course of work. For example, an IT professional who will likely have a number of reference books on one's desk/cubicle at work or at home. Or college professors who have rows upon rows of books in their offices. Imagine how much easier it would be if we had eBooks on proper eBook devices for comfortable reading. I would certainly prefer not to lug around a large collection of books when moving around, or a few reference books to work and back home, and so on. That said, I will not use eBooks extensively until someone comes up with products that make reading them easier: devices with large enough screens that are easy on the eyes; devices with long battery life so they do not die halfway while reading a novel; devices that are not very bulky or heavy. Books may not be obsolete in the near future, but I believe it will be in the long-term if eBook technology catches up to the likes of Star Trek PADDs or similar functionality. I like the smell of some books, but unless one is an avid collector of books due to their smell, their feel, or the covers and how authors can autograph them with pen and paper, I think eBooks would be better if one prefers convenience over such things. I would be one of the latter. Besides, eBooks might have electronic smells of ink people love if the technology matures. Electronic autographs can be made (just use a stylus on a PDA, for instance). The wonderful feeling of paper? Sure! If thin flexible plastic displays become a reality, it may be possible to display text on paperlike material, although there probably won't be enough of them to flip like a real book has. With technology, almost everything is possible. |
2006-03-26, 16:53 | Link #31 | |
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Maybe a device with enough of those thin plastic displays to turn pages like a book would work. It's only need about 50 or so double sided displays, if when you closed the ebook, it would start with where you left off on the first page. Of course it would probably be prohibitively expensive if possible to make.
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2006-03-26, 17:18 | Link #32 | |
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like i said above, i've had a librie for a year. i severely wish more of my reference manuals at work could be loaded onto it and be searchable. and all of my recreational reading is done on it. Last edited by sorvani; 2006-03-27 at 20:27. |
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2006-03-26, 18:20 | Link #34 | |
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For example! I don't know if anyone is a fan of these recent graphic novels that have been coming out.. (they are something between a comic and a full blown illustrative journal..) but I have spent over 100 dollars on them in the past couple of months. Anyway, they incorporate collage, cut paper spreads, pop up, and textured papers. So no matter how nice the screen is, some things will never translate. |
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2006-03-26, 20:04 | Link #35 |
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: On the Internet
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Right now, reading a book online is much more tiring than reading from a book, but when they solve that problem, I would switch to email right away.
Having said that, ebook does offer so much more potential that it is hard to ignore, even with its current short-coming. |
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I wouldn't mind reading novels as eBooks as long as the device satisfies the criteria I mentioned before. I wouldn't read one on a laptop or current PDAs but a proper device would make me happy enough to carry one of them around that could contain multiple books to read. Remember, you should SAVE THE TREES! Quote:
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2006-03-26, 21:32 | Link #38 | |
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2006-03-26, 21:38 | Link #39 | |
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2006-03-27, 01:36 | Link #40 | |
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I do know, however, that I'm very comfortable with buttons, mainly because computers have been a big part of my daily life for over half of it. This should be even more true for the Z Generation. |
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