Fascinating how long this thread has run. My perspective says these sorts of preferences distill down to temperament and/or age. Some are forward-looking, others prefer the rearview mirror and to reminisce.And I don't begrudge them for it, nor feel triggered by their choice, at all.
As a CD collector I've got the same problem - got over 60 CDs since Xmas, didn't have room for what I already had before that.
Why not just complete the square and factor it. Go digital and get it over with.
For some, it is a death march.
Pretty sure cars are basically physical, not digital (a few controller chips aside). And internal combustion is basically a fire in a box. Fueled by liquids pressed from primordial forests. You can even feel the warmth with your hands. That's analog I reckon. But when we have matter transporters, you can try the analogy again.
I can see what you mean there, and why the look of a real book would be strange and have some demerit points relative to what you’ve gotten used to.
Batteries don't run down with a book.
However, books aren't backlit.
They wouldn't need that in daylight or other ambient light.
But the light in my room is dim and I read a lot at night. Mind you, I gave my Kindle to my wife - she uses it all the time - and my volunteer work at the local library enables me to get books for $1 a pop. Have plenty to read now. Attempting to plow my way though "War and Peace" right now. However, I understand why someone would want a Kindle or an iPad for reading in preference to old-fashioned paper and ink.
And what lame, self-deceiving hipster excuse are you going to give for actually owning and enjoying books when the anti-analogue book forces come to re-educate you?umm...maybe we need a can anybody explain the paper renaissance? thread.
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Dang things reproduce like cockroaches.
I blame things like this.
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I still love paper books, but I try to practice "read and release," with some rare exceptions.I may have given you the wrong impression of my impression ... I really like those things about that book. The embossed foil text on the fabric cover, the play of light on the matte image pages, the initial stiffness of the pages promising to give way with use, etc.
My life has been way too messy to enjoy and look after books in recent years, but I inherited a grand old bookshelf that I want to restore and make a library room for. As Sydney becomes more topical with climate change, greater extremes of heat and humidity and so on, that means climate control and light control as well—otherwise books deteriorate badly—so a bit of work to achieve. But I'm looking forward to opening oversize/overweight books one day and enjoying their almost impractical tactile pleasures with no sense of urgency or utilitarian purpose, along with memories of reading and picture-books as a child. I imagine some people enjoy their records like that.
Photos, whether displayed on paper or a screen can not capture all the details and colors of a painting. Take it a step further.... go look at a "real" flower in a garden, whether painted or photographed the details, especially the colors, are not even close.
Miriam Wolf can explain the paper renaissance: Readers retain and process at a deeper level print that appears on paper over print on screens. The results of many exhaustive studies can be found in Proust and the Squid and Reader come Home, whicih appear in codex form. Those conclusions are analogous to what vinyl lovers are saying.umm...maybe we need a can anybody explain the paper renaissance? thread.
(just a couple of the infestations here)
Dang things reproduce like cockroaches.
I blame things like this.
Five Colleges Book Sale - used, antiquarian, out-of-print, hardbacks, paperbacks, fiction, biography, history, religion, science fiction, ephemera, music, cookery, travel
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I put my fingers on them and try to make the print larger.I read a lot on my Kindle these days, so much so, that while reading a real book the other day, I tried to turn the page by tapping it.
