Osmosis
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My favorite is paper. I love the smell of old books, but also, I download a ton too because it is easier to carry them around this way.
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I love ereaders. I can pull them out at any time, I can take thousands of books with me at any time, I can read at night without issue, if I drop my reader in the pool it’s not such a big deal. If I drop my book case in the pool it’s all damaged and everyone is giving me weird looks for bringing a book case to the pool.
I can take thousands with me at any time
You know you have multiple books on one e-reader right?
Yes this is literally what I just wrote.
This is literally what you wrote:
I love ereaders. I can pull them out at any time, I can take thousands with me at any time
I’m not sure what it is that you’re trying to communicate and frankly I don’t really care for it.
Yeah I can tell
They’re humorously interpreting your statement as you taking thousands of ereaders with you at once (rather than ebooks)
Man this is small book case energy
Mfers when IKEA Billy:
Yes.
My wife and I both identify with this comment. The best kind of reading.
For me it depends on the circumstance. If I’m on the road, an audiobook is great. And hard copy, or digital for all the other times. Tho’ I did come across a study that physical hard copy works better for memory. As in, those words exist in a physical location, so one’s brain can more readily find the memory.
Also Eric Bibb, has a song, Turning Pages on his album Booker’s Guitar, which you might enjoy. (https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=SKvq-mIOooo)
e-reader were a gamechanger for me.
on one side they are super convinient, because of the backlight alone.
on the other side: piracy
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It makes me proud that my gf used to have (I think it is busted now) a telegram bot to download books from zlibrary, as an iPhone user that was very convenient, but now she doesn’t.
My Android app works pretty fine though, so I just sent her the books there.
the telegram bot is not available anymore but there’s a workaround, if you make an account on zlib website and go to “edit profile” page there’s a button at the bottom to get a personal telegram bot
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on the other side: piracy
I just want to point out that there are libraries full of physical books that you can also get for a significant amount of time and you don’t have to pay for them. And of the library doesn’t have the book you want, they can probably get it for you from another library.
(They also often offer ebooks and audiobooks, but that’s another issue.)
Unless you want to keep the book with you, one of the nice things about paper books is that you don’t have to pirate them and you can get far more obscure titles than you’d probably ever find on a pirate site.
I’m not criticizing you for pirating books, I totally get it, I’m just very pro-library.
on the other side: piracy
I understand and encourage this, but I wonder, is there any “Steam” for books? In the meaning of “oh, this service is so good that actually I don’t want to bother to pirate them!”
amazon on kindle is very convienient. But I don’t want to support jeff bezozs, which is why I like piracy. Also amazon makes it really easy to pirate. You just send the pirated copy to you kindle email-adress, and amazon uploads the pirated ebook to your kindle. I have done this for about 10 years, and I like to image, that Jeff sheds a single tear each time I do this.
On the other hand there are many public libraries with a steam-like service. e.g. you pay your regular library fee (2€ iirc) and you can download all the books you want to your e-reader. The catch is, that you can only keep a certain number of digital copies at the same time for some reason. The other down side is, that the initial setup takes some time (but I guess that depends on the library? idk it was >5 years ago when I did some research in that direction).
If someone knows more about the public-library-ebook-service, please let us know.
Amazon has about 1.5 million employees.
When you buy something from them, you’re also supporting those people, as well as the stockholders, and the book’s author.
If you’re looking for the human effect of buying something from Amazon, focusing on Jeff Bezos is somewhat arbitrary.
Amazon artificially deflates the value of books, while also taking a humongous cut. If you want to support authors, Amazon is usually the worst place to buy from.
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When you buy something from them, you’re also supporting those people
I am sorry, but this take is just insane. You do not support amazon workers when you buy from amazon.
trickle down does not work. Companies like amazon will not use additional revenue to increase the conditions of their worker.
In fact, the opposite is true: the more market power amazon has, the worse it will treat its worker (and also the 3rd party sellers, and even the buyers)
Yes but if everyone stops buying from Amazon, those people lose their jobs.
This isn’t “trickle down”. This is “paychecks”. And yes it does work. That’s why those people work for Amazon.
If everyone stops buying from Amazon, those people could get jobs at any of these companies, where people buy from instead.
Amazon has replaced a lot of jobs. When amazon goes away, it in turn will get replaced by something else.
some publishers don’t use DRM so there’s that, otherwise I guess there’s overdrive which is… not that good, and requires library card but it’s free
I love the thought of paper books, but the functionality of my eReader is just too great. I can carry my books with me in one tiny little thing, it’s got a light built in and doesn’t weigh too much. Also saves so much shelf space.
Ebooks. I love how I can carry my entire book library on my phone with me everywhere I go. And read books on my phone anytime, anywhere. Also do enjoy audiobooks. Though they tend to take up lot of space, compared to ebooks.
Is that how you are supposed to read paper books?
Clearly you don’t read enough books… Like, bro, she’s clearly absorbing the contents of the book through diffusion. If you don’t know how to do this then you’re clearly not in our league.
Obviously they are using osmosis via the ocular membrane… I was confused about why they needed a scarf. Reading that way uses a lot of energy and should generate copious amounts of heat via friction.
I read exclusively through diffusion. Two years on and I’m on page 22 of the first Harry Potter book.
Lol I read all three formats. I have shit ton of physical books in my home and I have a serious buying issue where always buying more books and read them. And thanks to my library I have a Libby account and so far read over 26 books just through my kindle alone. Lastly I listen to audiobooks anytime I behind the wheel commuting to work or just driving. I just love to read and also love to write.
Interesting diatribe that doesn’t answer the question at all lol
They probably just misclicked and tried to reply directly to the post.
To answer your question:
Of course it is, how else are you supposed to save the information in your brain? Its not like paper can make use of video and sound waves to penetrate your nog, you have to use your eyes making physical contact with the paper.
I am sorry if that comes off as bold. I just realized if you don’t know this you must have never had the opportunities of a proper education, Its a shame really. I heard some places are so illiterate even the teachers know no better then placing books in front on their desk and then vocalize the words individually pretending that gives the same enlightenment as actually mind-reading them.
Edit: oh lol this post is 9months old and i didn’t see the other joke comments. Sorry for that.
I’d prefer paper, but having moved so many times I just can’t bring myself to own hardcopies unless I know someone who would like the book. So it’s E-reader unless driving, then audiobook.
I tried audiobooks but I couldn’t last more than 30 minutes without my mind wondering somewhere else.
Started with physical books in the 90s now I read ebooks on my phone. Hoping to buy a dedicated ebook reader someday.
You can buy an old Kindle for like $20 from eBay. Id argue the older ones are better. They are more easily hacked/jailbroken to remove advertising.
I spend a lot of time driving, audiobooks are the way to go
E-books and e-readers all the way! All my teenage years I was reading on a e-reader.
I broke mine couple of months ago and I will probably buy an replacement with my next paycheck.
Audiobooks all the way. I’m a crafter so I like to paint, knit, crochet, cross stitch or quilt while listening. Not possible with tangible books. I’ve listened to the whole Wheel of Time series and all of Brandon Sanderson’s cosmere novels.
My wife is not only exactly the same way- big into crafting and listening to audiobooks while doing it, she also listened to the whole Wheel of Time series while crafting!
I envy you that you can listen and do the other things at the same time, tried audiobooks while doing other things and I end up rewinding a lot of times.
