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I got this email announcement -- which doesn't do anything for me since I'm still clinging desperately to paper books and refusing to do the e-books thing as yet -- and figured I'd pass it along to anyone who does happen to have a Kindle:
I'm envious of the cheap prices people can get on Kindles, but as long as my eyes hold out for the reading of standard print on paper that's what I'll do.
For me, reading is more than eyes going over print -- it's about the smell of old paper and wood bookshelves, the sound of rustling paper, and the tactile sense of hardcovers and paperbacks, as well as always having the option (on books that I own, instead of having borrowed) to write in the margins literally as well as figuratively. The only sense not involved is taste, since I gave up sucking on books sometime around my third birthday!
Adam Hamilton's new book When Christians Get it Wrong is available on Kindle for $.99 this week only.
I'm envious of the cheap prices people can get on Kindles, but as long as my eyes hold out for the reading of standard print on paper that's what I'll do.
For me, reading is more than eyes going over print -- it's about the smell of old paper and wood bookshelves, the sound of rustling paper, and the tactile sense of hardcovers and paperbacks, as well as always having the option (on books that I own, instead of having borrowed) to write in the margins literally as well as figuratively. The only sense not involved is taste, since I gave up sucking on books sometime around my third birthday!
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They're SUPPOSED to be working on a system that will make it easier to bookmark and take notes on electronic texts, since there's a big push on to replace college textbooks with electronic versions, but so far that's just a pipe-dream, as far as I can tell.
Plus, there's the 'all your eggs in one basket' danger, it seems to me, at least for electronic textbooks. I mean, if I drop one book in a mud puddle on my way to class, I might be able to save it or I might not, but at least I haven't lost ALL my textbooks and attendant marginal notes for the semester at once, as I might if my e-book reader were accidentally dropped on some unforgiving surface.
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I'm not saying you need an e-reader--obviously, they're not a necessity--just that it turns out that a lot of the things you might think you can't do with them, you actually can.
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Just sayin'.
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I saw this and thought of you
http://cultural-learnings.com/cultural-catchup-project/
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The main advantage of e-readers, as far as I can tell, is that they allow you to carry a boatload of books in the space/weight of one. For someone who reads a LOT, especially when traveling, that's worth considering. I expect to take a good number of books on the iPad when I take a big trip next year, if all goes well.
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