The Library Makes The Man

[Hosakawa Tito]

Hosakawa, what's on the shelves between the two bookshelves, if you don't mind sharing?

I love the idea of being an avid reader and owning lots of books, but realistically, most of my reading is done online. Wikipedia, TVTropes, and these forums provide pretty much all recreational reading I do now.

That is an older pic and except for the bottom shelf bronze horse and weater gauge those nick nacks have been replaced. They are collectable dolls & toys my late wife & my daughter collected. My daughter has them now. My second wife has some of her things on those shelves.

[Greyblades]

Ah, Ebooks; light, portable, compact and convienient. So many tomes in such a small package and it makes you feel like your're holding a star trek padd without the pretentiousness or the privacy loss that you get with an apple product.
I've been using the sony ebook for over a year and a half, mostly at college in my free time and when I'm walking for long stretches. I've read American Gods, The Book Thief, the Harry Potter books, The Hobbit, The Lightning Thief (and subsequent entries in the series) and all of the Song of Ice and Fire books on that beige/grey screen and I considerd it my most important items in my college life last year. Then I got onto a course I actually liked and convinced into buying a PSP so my use of it as realy realy gone to nil, mostly due to all the recent books I've read beeing either long sought after ones I wanted to get in hardback (Wise man's fear, Chathrand series) or spontanious decisions during my periodic romp through waterstones on my scenic routes home from campus (Ciaphas Cain, Lost fleet).

I like how the paper of old book smells.

Agreed.

I hate reading from an electronic page.

I don’t know what it is but if it is over two pages I just leave it. It is like I get some kind of claustrophobia.

Is that an Ebook that has a backlit screen or one of the electronic paper Ebooks?

Books suck, period.

Tell me you're joking, please.

[Drunk Clown]

I have burned the novell 1984. It was such garbage.

[B-Wing]

Anybody mentioned audio books? I spend about an hour each week day driving, and more on the weekends, and I find it very convenient to be able to listen to a book whilst driving. Non-fiction works seem to better than fiction, for two reasons. One, you frequently get distracted from listening while you're driving, which means a lot of rewinding if you're listening to a narrative. But with a non-fiction, it's not such a big deal if you miss a few sentences. Secondly, the quality of the voice acting matters less in non-fiction, where the narrator isn't trying to make voices for multiple characters. I'd recommend audio books to anyone who spends a lot of time driving and doesn't care to spend their free time reading.

[Drunk Clown]

Anybody mentioned audio books? I spend about an hour each week day driving, and more on the weekends, and I find it very convenient to be able to listen to a book whilst driving. Non-fiction works seem to better than fiction, for two reasons. One, you frequently get distracted from listening while you're driving, which means a lot of rewinding if you're listening to a narrative. But with a non-fiction, it's not such a big deal if you miss a few sentences. Secondly, the quality of the voice acting matters less in non-fiction, where the narrator isn't trying to make voices for multiple characters. I'd recommend audio books to anyone who spends a lot of time driving and doesn't care to spend their free time reading.

Sure, why not just call while driving and ram an innocent person.

[Centurion1]

do you listen to the radio

also im hoping your a youngster otherwise your behavior towards books appalls me a little.

[Drunk Clown]

I listen to the radio, but that's not the same.

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You focus less on listening to a song, than listening to a story where you interpret the story and envision it. For calling you have to pay attention because you need to response.

[Centurion1]

I'm not disagreeing witht he cell phone obviously.

Most people however dont really listen to audio tapes in the car. It is usually narrated by a highly soothing voice and that is a great deal of the appeal.

[Drunk Clown]

Now! Something that does mather;

I love the Lord of the Rings books. And some dutch novells.

[TinCow]

If you can drive while carrying on a conversation with a person in the passenger seat, you can drive and listen to an audio book.

[Moros]

I sadly don't have the money to buy a lot of books especially the expensive more academic ones. But as a student I make maximum use of the univesity libraries (have about ten books borrowed at this time, I can go up to twenty) and there's still the city library as well. When I do have money later, I'll surely have more than a mere bookshelve.

Though I admit I occasionally (once to twice a year) buy a book and tell my parents I need it for a course.

...But then again I often don't feel the need to buy some books that actually are 'needed' for a course.

[Beirut]

My favorite room of the house. One thing ebooks do have going for them is ease of storage space. My late wife was a highschool English Lit. teacher, and with both our collections it feels like I have almost as many books as the town library. I can't imagine having to move them all.
Nothing beats a leather chair, glass of cognac, and a good book.

Wonderful! That is just lovely.

A perfect setup, but I would change the cognac for bourbon.

[edyzmedieval]

I love books. I love writing. Limitless.

I still prefer paper books, e-books, not yet for me. Plus the Kindle is a tad expensive right now, I'll wait.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Wonderful! That is just lovely.

A perfect setup, but I would change the cognac for bourbon.

Pull up a chair. I've got Crown Royal Reserve or would you prefer a nice single malt?

[Moros]

A good book needs a good trappist:

[edyzmedieval]

And what about for us non alcohol junkies? A good cocktail with lots of ice and lemon would do the trick.

[Adrian II]

You know when the stingy Scotsman has entered the thread...

Enter the consummate snob. I recently bought over half of Honoré de Balzac's oeuvre for 20 quid in a second-hand bookshop. In French, because you know - I was raised way back when edjookasjun was awesome.

Oh, and I'm with our killer Texan all the way.

AII

[Prince Cobra]

My favorite room of the house. One thing ebooks do have going for them is ease of storage space. My late wife was a highschool English Lit. teacher, and with both our collections it feels like I have almost as many books as the town library. I can't imagine having to move them all.
Nothing beats a leather chair, glass of cognac, and a good book.

Wow, I envy you. I find the chairs nowadays are completely unable to make me feel comfortable enough. That's why I read sitting on my bed or directly on the floor. If only I had such a cosy place...

[edyzmedieval]

Same here, I would definitely appreciate a huge leather armchair with puffy back rests, it would make reading so much more enjoyable.

But for the moment the bed or the couch will do.

[B-Wing]

I actually like to stand and pace around the room when I read, because otherwise I tend to fall asleep. Unless I'm reading just before going to bed, in which case the falling asleep part is quite convenient.

[Snite]

I like the idea of putting thousands of books(don't know if that's the actual number, was told so by a friend) onto a single e-reader and being able to take them every where I go. However, as posted by so many others, there's too much to love about an actual book for me to get one. One not posted before: every book seems to have it's own character, something not easily potrayed through an e-reader. The older the book - the more character it seems to have. Of course, this is only a projection, but still, it makes books that much more enjoyable.

And quite honestly, the idea of getting to walk into a room every day and just see walls of books is quite awesome.

[classical_hero]

Books suck, period.

Yeah. I have not been in a library for years. If I want something i can get it online. It is so much easier.