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The curious incident of the books on the Kindle
March 14, 2013 | 9:03 pm
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If you had a pile of 300 books in your house waiting to be read, what would you do? Would you go out and buy any more books? I doubt it, even if you could battle your way to the front door.
Yet if you’d got 300 books on your Kindle/iPad/other e-reader, would you stay in and click on any more ‘Buy It Now’ logos? More than possible. Because you probably wouldn’t even have noticed how many books were on there.
Never mind 300, you can put 3,000 books on an e-reader and it’ll look and weigh just the same as if you had one on there. And with so many e-books costing pence rather than pounds, there’s precious little financial disincentive to keep buying either. Fancy that Updike? That David Niven autobiography? That entire collection of everything Dickens ever wrote in his whole life? Go on—fill your boots, and indeed your bytes.
The curious thing about an e-book is the same as the curious thing Sherlock Holmes spotted about that dog: they don’t bark. They sit there silently, knowing that in all probability their pixels are never going to dance before your eyes.
Source: The Spectator
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Funny. Yes I reached more than 300 hard cover and paperback books some time ago and it did not stop me from buying more books. Actually, I decided to try a Kindle when I was running out of room for more books. I still have almost all of the physical books but some will be transitioned to ebooks as time and funds permit. However, there are some books that I will keep in hard copy even though I prefer using my Kindle, the Kindle app or an ePub app. It is just easier to carry, lighter weight, can change the font size, and even change the book when the mood strikes you for something different.