Re: Do you remember books?
Posted: April 8th, 2017, 1:40 am
Aaah Selina Scott , whatever happened to her? Last I read she was in the jumper business
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Fairleas wrote:If I buy an ebook, I can enjoy it.
If I buy a paper book, many will enjoy it.
Dod1010 wrote:As a reading list for a young person Halicarnussus's list seems pretty good to me. Mind you I have never heard of some but have certainly read a lot of them, not in the last ten years for many though, more like 30 years ago.
I wish I had kept a list as well. It would be equally esoteric and would contain much more non fiction. History, biographies and so on, which I think are required reading, as well as the so called literature of classic fiction.
Personally I have around 3000 books in my house and shelve nothing until I have read it, but I am continuously thinning out stuff.
Interesting thread.
Dod
Urbandreamer wrote:Fairleas wrote:If I buy an ebook, I can enjoy it.
If I buy a paper book, many will enjoy it.
Humm. Sorry I don't feel that quite works. Does Slatri deny others the enjoyment of a given book just because he keeps his copy rather than give it away?
If you are talking about lending the books then Amazon do let you loan out your books.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer ... =200549320
Then again there is project Gutenberg.
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Millions can enjoy the same ebook, you can even legally pass on your copy.
Can I read Grisham, Baldacci and Archer on the ebook sites you mention?
FWIW, I'm quite happy with others statements that they get a special pleasure from paper books that they dont from ebook. Ebooks may be great, but they are not for everyone and not everything works as a Ebook.
Fairleas wrote:Urbandreamer wrote:....
If you are talking about lending the books then Amazon do let you loan out your books.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer ... =200549320
Then again there is project Gutenberg.
https://www.gutenberg.org/
....
Can I read a Baldacci, Grisham and Archer on the sites you mention?
Slarti wrote:I have eBooks, mostly for travel, but if I like the book then I buy a physical copy, if I can. That is probably why I have well over 10k of them.
eBooks just can't match up to the look, feel and smell of a book and I find that they give greater pleasure than an eBook. For a start it is easier to skip back a few pages, or more, to check if your memory is letting you down.
Slarti
We all say that, though few can afford the luxury of a decent collection (it's not the books that cost, but the space to keep them). But I expect that may be a generational thing: we like what we grew up with. Come back in 50 years time, when generations of people who have had both formats from infancy are discussing such matters.
UncleEbenezer wrote:
An interesting case arose when I had moved to Italy and was learning the language. After a couple of months picking up enough to get by, I went into a bookshop to find something to help myself improve, and spotted "Lo Hobbit". Well, that was where I first learned to read English as a toddler, and I still love the story. It turned out to be an excellent translation, nicely capturing the spirit of Tolkien's wordplay as well as the story. I enjoyed reading it in Italian, and it was helpful that I had read it in English, but so long ago as to have only a faint child's memory focussing on the exciting bits, so it felt new while being somewhat familiar. It took me ages to figure out "Thorin Scudodiquercia", probably because my junior self hadn't found the name interesting enough to be memorable.