The Kindle

[Katherine Kerensky]

No. I love my paper too much. Plus, books are much less likely to electrocute you if you drop them in the bath.

And if that becomes the norm, paper books are going to be much more valuable in the future.
I'll keep my treasure trove

 

[Cowabungaa]

I am opposed to this device. I like going into bookshops and browsing around, I like the smell of new books, and books are a good use of trees.

This machine has no - for want of a better word- soul. You cant turn the page down at an interesting point, you cant scribble on it and make notes, you cant pick up a well used Kindle, with grubby pages and bent corners, and know that it has been read, used and loved by it's owner, because it has no pages.

Also you cant put them on shelves, they don't have interesting covers, and you look like a dunce holding a massive gray slab on a bus/ train/ plane.

Just my tuppence worth

This is pretty much my whole opinion. I like having a properly filled bookshelf, I like flipping through a book at random. Can't do that with a Kindle. Plus, books don't need batteries. Yes the Kindle has a long battery life, but at some point it ends, and you bet that that point arrives on plenty of really crappy occasions (as always).

 

[Wadders]

I am opposed to this device. I like going into bookshops and browsing around, I like the smell of new books, and books are a good use of trees.

This machine has no - for want of a better word- soul. You cant turn the page down at an interesting point, you cant scribble on it and make notes, you cant pick up a well used Kindle, with grubby pages and bent corners, and know that it has been read, used and loved by it's owner, because it has no pages.

Also you cant put them on shelves, they don't have interesting covers, and you look like a dunce holding a massive gray slab on a bus/ train/ plane.

Just my tuppence worth

This is pretty much my whole opinion. I like having a properly filled bookshelf, I like flipping through a book at random. Can't do that with a Kindle. Plus, books don't need batteries. Yes the Kindle has a long battery life, but at some point it ends, and you bet that that point arrives on plenty of really crappy occasions (as always).

And if you drop a book it doesn't break

I really cant see an advantage to this device, other than as a space saving thing on long journeys. It might be useful fort that purpose, but thats as far as it goes. I think our list of its failings go a long way to show that real books will not be going anywhere for a long long while