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Post by celyn on Oct 29, 2010 0:10:53 GMT -1
Yep, the price of e-books is the downside - it just doesn't seem fair for them to be the same price. But if you're happy with ye olde classics out of copyright, there's a lot of books. Just the ability to have hundreds of books with you must be terrific. And now, for no good reason at all, is some books being dominoes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5LlSKKG3M
Just 'cos I liked it. Am a bit sorry for all those poor books tumbling over and hurting their spines though.  |
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on Oct 29, 2010 4:34:03 GMT -1
Since the OP I have ordered one of these toys for me birfday. I mostly like the idea of using it when travelling, and don't like lugging big books from the library. Some libraries have e book sections already and Glasgow is looking into it. I'll write a review once I get the toy.
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Post by westender on Oct 30, 2010 8:49:40 GMT -1
Hells bells... AFF TOPIC, the lotta yese!!!
Fie, pish an tush. Grrr.
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Post by peony on Oct 30, 2010 12:52:21 GMT -1
There are just tons of free e books online, if that is your thing. I listen to audio books all the time and those are way too expensive to buy. I get them from the library. Right now I'm listening to terrifying stories from old time radio broadcasts - for halloween, donchaknow.
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Post by celyn on Oct 30, 2010 15:24:30 GMT -1
Hells bells... AFF TOPIC, the lotta yese!!! Fie, pish an tush. Grrr. Any chance of pie or fish instead? ;D |
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Post by lachlan on Nov 3, 2010 20:42:50 GMT -1
celyn...celyn...celyn: tremendous tae, once again, be readin your posts. One of your posts, many moons ago, has given me an idea: I am applying for a grant to see if trees really do laugh when one of their numbers falls over
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Post by ozneil on Nov 4, 2010 3:03:18 GMT -1
In spite of these new innovations I continue to haunt second hand book shops . Bit ot tautology there... you cant get old innovations can you ?  |
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Post by heidie on Nov 4, 2010 16:52:45 GMT -1
Old Innovations? Sounds like Dickens wrote it......................
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Post by notanimby on Nov 4, 2010 16:59:01 GMT -1
Old Innovations? Sounds like Dickens wrote it...................... Shirley such concepts as books and reading/writing are unknown tae ra denizens of DUMBastardshire - huz sumwan been telllin yoo ov things beyond yer ken agan |
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Post by celyn on Nov 4, 2010 22:52:28 GMT -1
Old Innovations? Sounds like Dickens wrote it...................... Specially the bit about haunting places. Good yin! ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2010 22:45:45 GMT -1
Since the OP I have ordered one of these toys for me birfday. I mostly like the idea of using it when travelling, and don't like lugging big books from the library. Some libraries have e book sections already and Glasgow is looking into it. I'll write a review once I get the toy. How does it work then, is it on battery? How long does that last? I mean to ask, can you get through a whole average size book without having to recharge the thing? And can you resize the type if it's illegible to us deeply shortsighted folks? Tell me more!  |
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Post by Sir Henry Rawlinson on Nov 6, 2010 7:56:50 GMT -1
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Post by funnybunny on Nov 12, 2010 15:16:10 GMT -1
I've been bought an e reader and although IMO it'll never replace books I find it great for when i'm travelling and especially when i had a few weeks abroad. Far easier to have my holiday reading material in the e reader rather than packing the paperbacks.
Now ipads - what's the point?
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Post by westender on Nov 12, 2010 16:58:16 GMT -1
Far easier to have my holiday reading material in the e reader rather than packing the paperbacks.  I don't see how "packing the paperbacks" can be difficult. Holidays? Well, books are certainly easier to read in the sun, they won't get fecked by sand getting in amongst them, they won't get broke if dropped or sat on or something gets spilled on them, they won't make you look like a total witless tit, and they they won't make you a target for a mugging. NOBODY who loves reading complained about taking books on hols - or about anything else to do with books - prior to the existence of these infernal devices. They are a solution to a totally, totally non-existent problem, so folk with more money than sense have to invent a load of rubbish to justify getting one. Bloody hate them. Completely pointless. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 18:57:44 GMT -1
Cheers, Groucho, Happy Birthday by the way  I had a look at them in Waterstones the other day; there's a whole new section dedicated to them on the ground floor in the Sauchiehall St branch if anyone's interested. I don't think I'll be investing any time soon but I can see why folks would rate them for travelling--- specially those of us who're held to ransom by Ryanair's fixed measuring scales |
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