I love books--- paranormal, urban fantasy, romance of any kind, historical fiction, YA, and many others. Political or self help are about the only kind I don't pick up.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
"and the old fashioned paper books" Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
For the full content of the blog that set me off ,check out the link below but I saw red when seeing the "old fashioned" remark and just had to respond. What about you?
"And yeah, I'm seeing people standing in lines reading their Kindle, their Sony, their Nook. Oh, yes, and the old fashioned paper books. It's a people thing. Whatever floats your boat."
"and the old fashioned paper books" Well, I guess I'm just
destined to be old fashioned if reading a REAL book is old
fashioned. Besides the fact that I like holding a book in
my hands, turning pages, and reading at the pool and in the
tub, it just doesn't make sense to me to fork out $300-
$400 for a reader to hold ebooks that cost as much as my
old fashioned paper book, that I'd be afraid to use it at the
pool or in the tub, that I can't loan to a friend and god
forbid should I lose it. Then I'm out the price of the
reader and possibly a thousand dollars worth of books(cause I
READ lots of books). Thank goodness if I lose my old
fashioned book, hey so what, I can buy another without having
to sell my first grandchild. It's not that I'm against
technology, jeez we got computers, cell phones, large
screen TVs, I-pods(hell we even use one on the
motorcycle) and radios in our helmets. We got technology out
the ying-yang in our life. I just see the outrageous cost
of whole thing and can't believe that people have been
suckered into it. I'm not saying I'll never have one but
besides the cost going to have to drop drastically, there
will have to be many more technological changes to the
readers to get me to get one.
http://freshfiction.com/page.php?id=2409
6 comments:
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Man, Lisa! I totally thought I was alone on this one! I just can't make the huge financial leap for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. Also because I would have to hide it from my kiddos because they would undoubtedly want to play with it. And that would mean that I can't have a book within arm's reach all the time - gasp! And besides I like flipping the pages - looking ahead to see how much longer the chapter is, cheating by reading the last chapter when the suspense is too much and I have heard this is a pain on the eReader! I have several friends that have them and other that are salivating over them, and I just don't get it. I guess we can just be old-fashioned together, Lisa!
ReplyDeleteHey, if you have a minute can you send me an email (polsen11{at}comcast{dot}net. I would like for you to do a guest post on my book blog!
I love my ereader...but I also love my normal books. Regular books, dead tree books. Def have never called it old fashioned. Weird people.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I have to admit that I've got an ereader and I absolutely LOVE it. I got it for Christmas from hubby and I don't think I could do without it now.
ReplyDeleteBUT, I also love normal books too! I wouldn't stop reading them just because I've got my ereader and I would never be so rude as to call them 'old fashioned paper books'. I think it is a personal choice and I think there is enough room in the world for both types of book.
I LOVE my "old fashioned" books. LOL,old fashioned books??
ReplyDeleteMy response to that would likely have been the same as yours or pretty darn close!
I could never get a ereader. I love holding a book in my hands and reading. Makes reading feel more special to me
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And from the way that hey were talking, that person wasn't a reader, or wasn't around books all that much. Wish that they hadn't commented on something that seems, to me, that they don't have a lot of contact with, or really understand. boks are the best, and yet, I'm pretty much the only one in real life that reads as much as I do, and then it makes me happy that there are places online like here that has people who love to read and who love books as much as I do. Books are just great!
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