I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.
You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.
I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.
I think printed fiction is what women read.
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.
Now the look of the book dictates the sale. In my day you could still buy a good cookbook in paperback with no pictures at all. I doubt if that would sell today. But those books were much used: they lived in the kitchen and got splattered with custard and gravy.
I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.
I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.
I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.
There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them.
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.
