Comments on: Kindle vs. Books — The New Literary Battle

By: Kindled by the Kindle « jordanjae

Kindled by the Kindle « jordanjae — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:37:51 +0000

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By: joey

joey — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:07:46 +0000

Kindles, nooks, books….what’s the difference, it’s still reading, and I don’t think we should be debating which is better. C’mon, our valuable time would be much better spent planted in front of our TVs, watching deep, profoundly meaningful reality shows like “Big Brother”, “Jersey Shore”, and “Real Housewives of (take your pick of locations)”. Do you think Snookie or one of the real housewives would ever be caught up in a frivolous debate like the one going on here?

By: Curl Up With a Kindle? | magicreader1

Curl Up With a Kindle? | magicreader1 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:52:22 +0000

[...] in a few years,” says Katy in her article, “Kindle vs. Books – The New Literary Battle.” http://thenonconsumeradvocate.com/2010/01/kindle-vs-books-the-new-literary-battle-2/comment-page-1/ “Drop a book and it can get bent pages. Drop a Kindle and you’ve just made a nasty piece of [...]

By: Arthur Denten

Arthur Denten — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:54:18 +0000

Dumb, dumb. They said TV was a novelty, too. And when my kindle’s battery runs out I plug it in and recharge it. Duh. Kindles are just better. Get over it.

By: E

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:17:04 +0000

I like paper books, I can get them two for £1, sometimes new, in the charity shops near my home. I can then take them back and they’ll earn more money for the charity. Even bought new, the £3-4 I will pay for a book is better to me – I drop books all the time, and if I dropped a Kindle I would lose it all…

By: hubert

hubert — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:56:40 +0000

Very good attitude. I agree, soon there will be a Kindle V2 or something and the original will be outdated

Sticking to paper books is much better, the Kindle, although has a few slight advantages, is really just novelty. I’m a 23 year old guy and my friend says I should get one (as its the latest thing) but I prefer sticking to real books

By: hubert

hubert — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:29:15 +0000

kindles are a waste of money, we dont need another electronic device damaging the enviroment, they say a kindle is great for a long trip but what happens when the battery runs out? A book at least doesnt waste electricity

The kindle is almost as bad as the iPad, just novelty, nothing more

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:29:07 +0000

Okay, this all seems so silly. Fighting the neverending war of two types of reading. My father bought and financed me a Kindle for my birthday, and I still buy and currently own over 300+ paper books. Most of which I bought at flea markets, dollar stores, and Goodwill (because on the small allowance of a teenage girl you can’t really afford to pay full price for a brand-spanking-new book just off a hot press). I think we should just coexist with our technology. Books have been around for a long time. I don’t think we should just kill a whole medium over some new tech that will just keep getting upgraded after the day you bought it. I’ve got an iPod Nano gen 1 and iPod Classic gen 5 (old even now) but that doesn’t mean I’ve gotten rid of my few hundred CDs or portable CD player from 5years ago. Or my cassette tapes or VCR. Why should we kill something so monumental as books just because some new fangled tech came along and impressed us?

By: KSG

KSG — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:44:23 +0000

my concern with e-books is more from a historical standpoint: what happens to e-books as the technology evolves? in a hundred years, nobody going to be able to pick up a kindle and obtain the documents on it. the kindle will have lived its life, therefore taking with it to its grave all the words, thoughts, inspirations, criticism, dreams and debates of the authors entrapped inside the defective device.

in fact, there is even a likelihood that with technology advancing so quickly that e-books may not even be compatible with kindle or such devices in even a decade.

i know i am weighing a lot of ‘what if’s’ into my decision, but i truly feel that we will be risking losing a lot of history by entrusting books to devices rather than paper copies.

i think there can be a happy medium, a blend of both worlds. but my concern is that this trend will eventually turn us all paperless.

but language and writing is one of the most universally sound methods of preserving history. just think of how many authors, scientists, mathematicians and brilliant minds were discovered upon stumbling across hard copies of their completed work?

the same could not have been said had anyone tried to open an old, uncharged, dead battery operated kindle.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:30:05 +0000

Also, you can put any pdf or doc file on the device for free. You can just as easily read any digital book you can find online on your kindle, including anything from project gutenburg, archive.org, or manybooks.net. Anything that is not in the proper format can be sent via email to your device and will be converted to the correct file type by Amazon for a nominal fee ($0.50 – $3) per book. There are approximately 2 million free books available online. Just look for them. Amazon is actually the only company offering an e-reader that isn’t demanding that you buy content exclusively from them.