No digital books for me

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No e-books or other digital books/PDFs. One power failure or hard drive crash and there is no access or I lose everything. Just pointing it out to others.
 
Not to be contrarian, but one could argue the opposite. One house fire or flood and my whole library is gone. But my digital books are always safe in “the cloud.” 😉
 
I even own a few water-damaged magazines. Fire? Sure. But I prefer to avoid staring at screens, even if part of my collection resides in boxes.
 
i have never downloaded a book before, however, sadly, the series i am currently reading, the next book i cannot find on Amazon nor am i able to order it through our local Barnes and Noble. which is curious, because the 5th book i can order.
so if i wantbto read the series n order, i will have to order it on my Kindle.
i just like the feel of holding a book in my hands!
 
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No e-books or other digital books/PDFs. One power failure or hard drive crash and there is no access or I lose everything. Just pointing it out to others.
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Not really. When my first tablet died, I had no problem getting my ebook accounts set up on the new one. And I had them spread out over amazon, b&n, & kobo.
I started getting ebooks as soon as I could when they came out. Ereaders, tablets, & computers have come & gone, but I haven’t lost one single ebook.
 
For me, I own a piece of history. And I can resell my books. For ebooks, a First Edition means nothing. If the power goes out, all I need is some natural light. I wonder what it costs to put a book collection in the cloud. Again, I’m tired of screens.
 
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When I buy a book from Amazon, it remains in my Amazon cloud forever.

When I buy a book from Audible, it remains in my Audible cloud forever.

Same for other ebook sellers. No extra cost.

The Amazon app is free for every device I can imagine.

I can read my electronic books at night during a power outage 🙂
 
No e-books for me, either, I love the feel and smell of books, event the weight of holding it. I just finished turning my second bedroom into my library, something I’ve dreamed of since I was a little kid. The older the book, the better. My eyes get too strained using tablets/computers.
 
Then, one day, you pick up a book and the print has shrunk!

Collecting books is a young person’s thing. You get older, you want to downsize. I have literally hundreds of books that I cannot even give away.
 
One house fire and that’s all your paperbacks too. just kidding lol.

Personally i find it easier to read from a computer screen but i know what you are saying. It’s upsetting when you lose something important due to a disk drive failure.
 
Used bookstores are also valuable because I collect military history books and those related to some early military technology. I found a book on early radar in the US in hardcover with a nice dust jacket that I did not know existed.
 
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I found a book on early radar in the US in hardcover with a nice dust jacket that I did not know existed.
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And most likely not available as an e-book, even if you had wanted it in that format.

I love my e-books, but there are times when only paper will do.
 
I’m with you edwest.
I spend enough time looking at screens doing my internet browsing, my forum and social media reading, the occasional longform news article or Buzzfeed essay, etc.
I do not like to read books off a glowy screen and to do so makes my eyes hurt.
Also it used to be when you flew on planes, they would make you put away Kindles and such during takeoff and landing, but you could keep your paper book in hand.
And used bookstores sell many interesting books for less than the price of a Kindle E-book.
I also did not like it when Amazon decided to remove “Animal Farm” from the libraries of people who had already paid for it. Digital rights being what they are, this could happen any time from any provider.

Right now, I own exactly one e-book and that is a copy of the Manual of Indulgences that I wanted to be able to easily access from my smartphone. I use it to look stuff up on the go. I don’t sit around reading it.
 
Having a physical book is my default option as well, but my back prefers the weight of the Kindle to that of the seven or more books I would be carrying instead if I didn’t have a Kindle.

I got one of the e-Ink models. No back-lit screen, no glare. I can read it at Adoration without bothering anyone. Life is good. :+1:t3:

Some things are total non-starters, though. My breviary, for example - I do pray from an app if I’m already so laden with other things that I can’t bring the breviary with me, but no way would I chuck my three-volume set in favor of a digital version 😒
 
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