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Cracked finds 8 unexpected drawbacks to e-books
February 14, 2012 | 11:07 pm
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By Chris Meadows
Reasons not to adopt e-books: we’ve heard them all before. Needing electricity to read, losing a big investment if we leave it on the bus, complete lack of the aroma so crucial to having a fulfilling reading experience. But there are some other, compelling reasons to think twice about adopting e-books that many people never even consider. Cracked has a great list of eight of these reasons.
For example:
#7. You Need Physical Books for Physical Tasks
I’m not the first person to observe this, so I’ll just say that many times when you’re looking for something handy, there just isn’t anything around that will do a better job than the cheap Frederick Forsyth novel you got from Half-Price Books, which, after reading 10 pages, you realized you had already read before, so you just left it on the coffee table. These important tasks include table stabilizing, spider killing, cat fight breaking up and makeshift camera stand making.
I have to admit, while I might be inclined to quibble over the aroma issue, some of the reasons Cracked writer Christina H. comes up with might make me think twice the next time I’m inclined to choose an e-book over a printed one.
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Right now my desk is propped up by a Robin Hobb fantasy novel and Dynamic Web Publishing on one side and a couple of Harry Potter books on the other. Out of a wide selection of sizes and shapes they were the ones that worked best.
I wonder if anyone has compared the price of second-hand books versus comparably-sized blocks of timber?
Just killed a silverfish with an Icelandic police procedural.
I have a bookcase that is held up on one corner by a book whose name I can’t even remember.
I have to say, this is the first list of reasons physical books are better than ebooks, that hasn’t made me want to scream and/or hit something. I was too busy being amused by it.
The great big coffee table size books are really, really good for flattening things that have become wrinkled, or pressing flowers. You can’t press flowers in a Kindle! I suppose you could if you had a big pile of them, though.