E-book or real book

[KSarty]

To all those people saying reading on a lit monitor is worse than reading on a piece of paper: eBooks don't HAVE lit monitors, you provide your own light, and that's its biggeest selling point! It's as easy on the eyes as paper.

To whomever said that a book costs 25-40 USD: You're lucky. I live in Norway, and the CHEAPEST books are about 40 USD. Most of them are around 100 USD.

I want an eBook, for one particular reason: gutenberg.org. Most of the greatest works of literature, freely avaibable online. The only problem is that reading books on a computer hurts my eyes, and printing all of them would be too expensive. EBooks are a cheap, easy-to-read alternative.

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How come books are so expensive in your countries? In the UK the avarage paper-back is £7.99, a big paper back book will cost you £12.99... a medium size hardback would cost you no more than £16.00

I much prefer physical paper books, it's easier on the eyes so you take in more infomation. I have read numerous e-books and online essays as part of my university course, and it is such a pain to try to read. I find i understand things better from reading things off paper.

Same here, the average price for paperbacks here is $5.99, $10-$15 for hardcovers.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

For all my love of technology, I can't muster up any interest in the Kindle or eBooks. Reading books on a screen versus reading actual books isn't even remotely comparable, and the eBook experience is the one suffering by the comparison. Give a man a PDF or a printout of the same thing and 9 times out of 10 he'll prefer the printout. We laugh at out of touch managers for printing out all their emails, but it would actually make sense if they were all novel length.

 

[delet]

I can understand why you'd want an Ebook; you can have multiple books to read in a thin little format that you can take around with much more portability. The problem is, and this may be due to the fact that I grew up encouraged to read (which is a good thing, dammit) and I've grown quite accustomed to paper books. I simply wouldn't want to carry around a tablet and scroll pages down to read a novel. There's just something much more substantial to reading a paper book, even if it is so damned huge you can't fit it in your backpack without removing all other books...