Matthew on 22/10/2009 at 17:15
Quote Posted by ilweran
I did notice that with the Fictionwise Stanza store, but the specific books I was considering getting I could get for roughly the same price from Amazon Marketplace and for me a 'real' copy will always win out over a digital copy if they're around the same price.
Although, considering the space problem I'm having with books - we bought our house at the end of last year and we still have piles of books at my parents house - I may change my mind.
Well, it's always going to be situational. I
would have said that I prefer real books in the past, but now that my own shelves are overflowing and any reading time I do get tends to be when I'm out and about rather than in the house, ebooks have won the day for me.
Stitch on 22/10/2009 at 17:53
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I realize you're being sarcastic but I fail to see how hatred of e-readers somehow translates to technophobia.
TTLG: we're in here discussing a topic!
dethtoll: CARTOONISHLY OVERSTATED FUCKING OPINION
TTLG: CARTOONISHLY OVERSTATED FUCKING RESPONSE
dethtoll: wtf guys why are you all overreacting :confused:
SubJeff on 22/10/2009 at 17:59
Word to that Snatch.
Sulphur on 22/10/2009 at 18:00
Uncle Snatch has a snappy ring to it, actually.
Stitch on 22/10/2009 at 18:02
my god the myriad levels upon which that works
Matthew on 22/10/2009 at 18:35
Much like your good self
ilweran on 22/10/2009 at 18:57
Quote Posted by Matthew
Well, it's always going to be situational. I
would have said that I prefer real books in the past, but now that my own shelves are overflowing and any reading time I do get tends to be when I'm out and about rather than in the house, ebooks have won the day for me.
I think that's what won me round to ebooks on my iPod. Music, films, games & books all on the same device that weighs next to nothing and is perfect for the hour it takes me to get into work.
june gloom on 22/10/2009 at 22:54
Quote Posted by Stitch
dethtoll: CARTOONISHLY OVERSTATED FUCKING OPINION
This would hold more water if you didn't apply it to
everything I say. I don't see how what I said was "cartoonishly overstated"- I simply posited that paper books are preferable to the Kindle and its ilk for a variety of reasons, but you seem to have adopted the notion that whatever I say that goes against the general consensus of the other posters in a thread is somehow trolling or raging or whatever you want to call it. It's boring at this point and I don't know why I even bother arguing with it.
Fafhrd on 22/10/2009 at 23:16
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I simply posited that paper books are preferable to the Kindle and its ilk for a variety of reasons,
O rly?
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I hope this shit never achieves mass popularity, or
I'll probably end up in jail for murdering someone reading Twilight on their Kindle while yelling at the Starbuck's cashier for fucking up their lattejune gloom on 22/10/2009 at 23:33
To be fair, it's not just the Kindle that would be the problem there.
