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I avoid mold carrying tree killing paper books random thoughts Send a noteboard - 24/04/2017 01:26:39 PM

Since I'm now in the second half of my first century reading without glasses for an extended amount of time is difficult and hate reading glasses. My Kindle looks like paper and I can make the text larger our smaller depending on how my eyes are doing at that moment. I can just touch a word and have a dictionary definition our wikipedia article. If I forget my Kindle I can have my phone sync to where I was. When you compare all of that to "I like the smell of paper" I don't think it is even close.

For me it is about the words and ebooks are just a superior word delivery system. I am sure when the printing press was invented their were people who insisted on only hand written books.

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Does Anybody Else Avoid Ebooks? - 21/04/2017 10:21:26 PM 1226 Views
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The same for me. *NM* - 22/04/2017 08:29:22 PM 612 Views
Not avoid, really - 21/04/2017 11:55:41 PM 1086 Views
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Finishing a book has a completionist satisfaction that e-books lack. - 22/04/2017 01:17:26 AM 1026 Views
I avoid them and always have *NM* - 22/04/2017 02:37:27 AM 507 Views
Yes. I prefer the real thing. *NM* - 22/04/2017 06:58:12 AM 539 Views
Was the real thing for you some form of clay tablet or a form of plant fiber like papyrus? - 22/04/2017 08:17:25 AM 986 Views
When Mook was a kid - 22/04/2017 12:40:24 PM 908 Views
Well played. Both of you *NM* - 22/04/2017 04:31:58 PM 559 Views
didn't he try to - 23/04/2017 07:02:02 PM 965 Views
Never a need to apologize for taking a shot at me, unless it is done poorly - 22/04/2017 04:34:20 PM 1154 Views
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No problem - 23/04/2017 03:59:37 AM 1079 Views
I do. - 22/04/2017 03:37:37 PM 897 Views
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They are waaaay behind me! LOL - 24/04/2017 01:55:58 PM 1005 Views
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Here's the deal. When I used textbooks, I never marked them. I never used post its either. - 24/04/2017 02:59:25 PM 982 Views
But it's not as easy to cross-reference! - 24/04/2017 04:31:27 PM 964 Views
I avoid mold carrying tree killing paper books - 24/04/2017 01:26:39 PM 958 Views
That is very true about the phone sync. - 24/04/2017 01:57:05 PM 1001 Views
I love eBooks so much. - 24/04/2017 02:54:21 PM 1071 Views
I don't so much as avoid them.... - 26/04/2017 06:41:47 PM 1037 Views

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