E-readers
I am against the idea of readers at this point in time primarily for two reasons.
The first is that it’s expensive to carry around with you. I wouldn’t feel comfortable taking a Euro 400 gadget with me to the beach or throwing it in my bag to read during my vacations. It just adds stress to reading books.Compare this to just carrying around a paperback. Let’s face it, having hundreds of titles stored on the reader is meaningless as you are only reading one at a time.
The second is that not all books are available on these devices. Forking out a small fortune just to find out in 1 year that the book i want to purchase is not available on the device is simply ridiculous. I will be spending money which will only limit my book options.
Amazon’s Kindle 2 is another step in the right direction, much like it’s predecessor especially for reading magazines and blogs but the above issues remain. It’s expensive and not all books are available. Oh, and currently only available in the US…..
February 11th, 2009 at 20:27
I’ve never really understood the point of e-readers either - while they might sometimes be useful, they are also expensive and not everything is available on them. Maybe when the technology becomes a bit more available and cheaper they’ll take off more but I think it’s going to be a while before I would consider getting myself one. Even then, in the same way I still buy cds, I can’t imagine not wanting to have books on my shelf!
February 12th, 2009 at 08:37
I love the physical product be it a book, cd or games. But i am only really attached to games which i collect.
Nowdays i just don’t have the space for more books and cds so i am more open to have these in the form of files.
But like you said, i can’t imagine my home without books either just yet.