Comment by sitkack

Comment by sitkack 4 days ago

6 replies

I understand your pain, we all seem to make dichotomies where none should exist.

Getting rid of print books is not a prerequisite for carrying your entire library with you. Why not both meme.

Hopefully ebooks will get to the point where they offer a better experience than paper books. But my mind does not handle the information in nearly the same way when using ebooks. I find them wonderfully valuable and productive, but in the same deep introspective way. They are transactional, focused and very task directed.

watwut 4 days ago

I ebooks better for reading already. Physical books advantage is that I can read inside them in bookstore - bookstores are much better for me when I looking for something new.

But I prefer actual reading on the phone.

  • bluGill 4 days ago

    Are you reading, or are you studying? When reading my phone is great. When I want to study though I will want to take notes, compare tables on different pages and other such things that my phone doesn't work for.

    • watwut 4 days ago

      I actually prefer ebook for both - including for studying. If the book I want to study requires larger screen, I prefer notebook. I never wrote into books, if I am taking notes it is on paper and sometimes electronically (with keyboard).

      For comparing tables, I prefer laptop.

      • RheingoldRiver 3 days ago

        > I actually prefer ebook for both - including for studying.

        Really?? What ereader do you use? How are you taking notes (that you would be able to retrieve later in a reasonable manner), using the index, etc? I've wanted for years to switch to electronic books for nonfiction that I want to learn from, but software for reading feels so bad for this purpose.