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Getting close to sixty. By the sound of it, generations older than you. I used to own thousands of paperbooks - these days, they're down to around a hundred. I
by interfixus 9y ago
Getting close to sixty. By the sound of it, generations older than you. I used to own thousands of paperbooks - these days, they're down to around a hundred. I have preferred digital for as long as screen quality has made it viable, meaning roughly the last ten years.
Mind you, I don't own a Kindle, and most likely never shall. Nobody gets to looking over my shoulder as I read - and certainly not Amazon - because that distracts and destroys my reading experience.
- throwanem 9y agoFewer generations than I'd prefer, if I'm honest; the plural doesn't really apply. I used to laugh when my mother would tell me that youth is wasted on the young. Lately I understand why she never laughed when she said it. That said - an excellent point, with which I agree wholeheartedly. Calibre is an excellent tool, even if I could wish it handled PDF generation better - but that's a tall order, and really only an issue for The Art of Electronics and the like. I also live in a ~600sf apartment, which is about all the space I really need but which also puts a pretty sharp limit on the volume of my physical library. It works well to go digital by default, and reserve paper copies for special. (That said, I do wish I had space for a shop! Building a table in my front room is doable enough, but does rather cramp things while underway.)