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Not to worry anyone. I just checked and all my books are still here on my bookshelves.
by macinjosh 11y ago
Not to worry anyone. I just checked and all my books are still here on my bookshelves.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoExcept I can't find that book I read once, by that author, what was her name? It had a blue cover...
- creshal 11y agoDon't worry, just give me some keywords so I can type them into my Kindle's built-in search function at a painfully slow pace! Oh, never mind, the wifi is down, and the on-screen keyboard driver is broken. Again.
- bonaldi 11y agoI get the joke, but that highlights something I value in books: their physicality chimes well with my ways of thinking. Sometimes I can only remember that a book was blue, and will wander my shelves looking at blue books until I find it. Likewise I can remember the bit I'm looking for was on the bottom left of a page with a big picture on it, and will scan through the book till I get to it. Both things I lose with eBooks; though of course there are plenty of other compensations.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI enjoy physical books too (have ~3000 in my house). Its long past the day I could ever find one again, except by accident. They're two or three deep on the shelves; not sorted out by any rational principle; more than one copy of some and others I probably loaned out and never got back. But I can never part with them, without losing a piece of myself.
- ashark 11y agoI've found that I remember authors and titles of books far less well when reading ebooks. My guess is it's because I don't see the book's cover lying around the house even when I'm not actively reading it as I do with a real book, and because it always starts right where I left off, so I don't see the cover when I pick it up to start reading. Plus no author/title page headers.
- animal531 11y agoI have the same problem. It's really annoying when I'm trying to tell someone about this great book, but I don't know who wrote it or what its called.