{"id":790,"date":"2011-10-25T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookenvy.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2011-10-25T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:38:38","slug":"digital-or-physical-books-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/digital-or-physical-books-or-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital or physical books? How about both?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stumbled onto \u201cConfessions of an E-Book Virgin<\/a>\u201d at the Huffington Post yesterday and was at first amused at the way in which he approached the issue of eBooks taking over from physical books. He outright says that staring at another screen all day makes him ever more resistant to adopt the digital book. Which just goes to show how much he doesn\u2019t know what an eInk display actually is.<\/p>\n

Choosing the physical over the digital? Why a choice?<\/h2>\n

As one who didn\u2019t embrace digital reading until the advent of the Kindle, and one who stuck to the physical book for a long time because it \u201cfelt\u201d better and more at home to me – I can say that the feeling for the physical book doesn\u2019t go away. Above and beyond that, eInk displays are not pixelated and not a strain on the eyes at all – unless of course you are like me and try to read in bed at night with just a low watt lamp on.<\/p>\n

\"ConversationsI still buy physical books. Just the other day I purchased \u201cConversations with God; an uncommon dialogue\u201d by Neale Donald Walsch in hardcover. I\u2019ve always loved the look and feel of hardcover books – especially when they are printed on \u201cacid-free paper\u201d and have that old time uneven cut edges going on.<\/p>\n

I am sure the minute a Kindle version becomes available at Amazon, I am likely to get that too because my Kindle goes with me everywhere, while my bookshelf just can\u2019t quite fit into my bag.<\/p>\n

It really doesn\u2019t have to be a choice between the two.<\/h2>\n

There isn\u2019t any doubt (I don\u2019t think) that eReaders provide the portability and mobility of a library of books when you travel and in this current culture of long commutes and extended waiting periods for anything from food to doctor\u2019s appointments, an eReader with a selection of books to choose from while you wait isn\u2019t an unreasonable consideration.<\/p>\n

However, on those rainy days, when all you want to do is curl up with a book, you can\u2019t beat the smell and feel of a \u201creal\u201d book. And there\u2019s no real reason to give that up if you go digital.<\/p>\n

There is no need to choose one or the other. Having an eReader does not mean you have given up the love or appreciation for physical books. For me it means that I can read as voraciously as I am used to doing without having to lug a suitcase of books around with me. And when I find that one book that I just MUST read in its paperback or hardcover form, I indulge myself and get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stumbled onto \u201cConfessions of an E-Book Virgin\u201d at the Huffington Post yesterday and was at first amused at the way in which he approached the issue of eBooks taking over from physical books. He outright says that staring at another screen all day makes him ever more resistant to adopt the digital book. Which just goes to show how much he doesn\u2019t know what an eInk display actually is. Choosing the physical over the digital? Why a choice? As one who didn\u2019t embrace digital reading until the advent of the Kindle, and one who stuck to the physical book for a long time because it \u201cfelt\u201d better and more at home to me – I can say that the feeling for the physical book doesn\u2019t go away. Above and beyond that, eInk displays are not pixelated and not a strain on the eyes at all – unless of course you are like me and try to read in bed at night with just a low watt lamp on. I still buy physical books. Just the other day I purchased \u201cConversations with God; an uncommon dialogue\u201d by Neale Donald Walsch in hardcover. I\u2019ve always loved the look and feel of hardcover books – especially when they are printed on \u201cacid-free paper\u201d and have that old time uneven cut edges going on. I am sure the minute a Kindle version becomes available at Amazon, I am likely to get that too because my Kindle goes with me everywhere, while my bookshelf just can\u2019t quite fit into my bag. It really doesn\u2019t have to be a choice between the two. There isn\u2019t any doubt (I don\u2019t think) that eReaders provide the portability and mobility of a library of books when you travel and in this current culture of long commutes and extended waiting periods for anything from food to doctor\u2019s appointments, an eReader with a selection of books to choose from while you wait isn\u2019t an unreasonable consideration. However, on those rainy days, when all you want to do is curl up with a book, you can\u2019t beat the smell and feel of a \u201creal\u201d book. And there\u2019s no real reason to give that up if you go digital. There is no need to choose one or the other. Having an eReader does not mean you have given up the love or appreciation for physical books. For me it means that I can read as voraciously as I am used to doing without having to lug a suitcase of books around with me. And when I find that one book that I just MUST read in its paperback or hardcover form, I indulge myself and get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[181,152,11,10,94,116,154,70,12],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-books-2","tag-choice","tag-ebook","tag-ebooks","tag-ereader","tag-ereaders-2","tag-opinion-2","tag-readers","tag-reading"],"views":5652,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}