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Aside from sensory immersion etc, paper books are just easier to flip through, have higher resolution, and generally look nicer. And there's the simple fact th
by mbrock 10y ago
Aside from sensory immersion etc, paper books are just easier to flip through, have higher resolution, and generally look nicer.
And there's the simple fact that sitting somewhere with a book makes you look pretty cool whereas sitting there with a Kindle makes you look like a dork.
Also, paper books can be shared, lent, given, and they exist as nice physical objects instead of as these weird ephemeral files that Amazon can probably delete at any time.
- zappo2938 10y agoWhen I walk into a person's house and see a book shelf I look to see what titles are there. Or, I look to see who and what people are reading in a coffee shop. The reason is that I like to know what people are thinking. I don't get that from a Kindle.
- toyg 10y agoThat's true, ereaders don't broadcast your "intellectual worth" and interests as much as bookshelves do. It's also not a conversation starter ("a biography of John Major, really?"). I wonder if it's something that could be solved with some sort of integration with those "smart frames" that show your family pictures. This said, I don't agree with ereaders making people "look like dorks" -- pretty much everyone in a coffee shop these days is glued to a screen; be it a laptop, phone, tablet or reader, the look is exactly the same (well, unless you're rocking some huge "portable 386" from 1995, in which case you look either nuts or "oh so retro").