On 12 Oct 21:01, mick wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:32:02 +0100 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk allegedly wrote:
But yes seconded, the Kindle is an awesome bit of kit. So much so I have forgiven Amazon for some of their previous silliness (including some around the Kindle initially).
Talking of luddites... I'd like to be a real one here if I may.
I actually /like/ books. I like the fact that I can lend them to people, I like the fact that I can read them in the bath, drop them when I nod off, and know that they are still (just) readable afterwards. I like the fact that I can scribble in the margins. I like way they are actually objects of beauty in their own right (can you imagine a bookshelf full of kindles?). I like the fact that the words remain the same between me putting the book down and picking it up again (that may not always be the case for electronic words). I like the fact that when I have bought a book, I can be sure that the words will still actually /be/ there when I next pick it up and won't have been remotely erased by the publisher.
Oh and I like the way they feel and smell.
Call me old fashioned.
OK - you're old fashioned!
(I buy rather a lot of paperbacks recently, all fiction, but I've got over 3 hours of commuting a day - I like books because they don't need power, they are light, and you can use them everywhere... they're good things dammit... what I don't tend to buy books for is anything programming related, or linux related, the targets move too quickly, by the time you get a book, half of that has been deprecated, and the other half was probably wrong to start with :)