Does /book/ read books that they download or do they buy the things that they read?
Personally, I do both. As much as I prefer reading a book that I can take with me anywhere and read in a more comfortable setting, I have read books in .pdf before, although I didn't like it.
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Anonymous2008-10-02 0:01
i have some hard copies but most of my books are downloaded
my problem is i hate when people make pdfs from text documents
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Anonymous2008-10-02 0:14
Both. Mostly tree-gut, but I don't mind reading on the computer. Since I've got a laptop, it's nearly as portable as a book (can't use it in the sun, of course) but with the added bonus that I can set it down and do something else as I read, not having to hold the text open and pointed at my face.
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Anonymous2008-10-02 0:59
You could always go to a library near you. Perfectly free, and they tend to have rather large selections.
99% of everything I read now I downloaded. Reading it on my cellphone, too. Back before the high-tech days I read in paper, of course, but today books look simply too inconvenient; and as for being a retarded purist, I never was one.
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Anonymous2008-10-02 14:06
>>10
You always the thing you want at the library?
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Anonymous2008-10-19 11:40
I'm really waiting for E-readers (like the kindle) to come down in price. I love the concept behind them and would love to be able to carry around 20+ books with me wherever I go.
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Anonymous2008-10-19 14:27
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Really, I think a bite-size laptop is going to be more convenient in the end. It's easy to set a laptop on pretty much any surface (table, your belly, a bed) and tilt the screen to the angle you need, plus it's easy to take notes with a real keyboard there. The only thing dedicated readers really have going for them is the e-ink display, which I understand is more readable in bright light than a laptop screen.
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Anonymous2008-10-21 4:36
>The only thing dedicated readers really have going for them is the e-ink display
Yeah that and the fact that the battery lasts for weeks instead of two hours.
they only have books that are in the public domain (IE, older books), but it's still quite a lot and they're all in nice txt files
for more recent stuff, there's the #ebooks channel on irchighway. they don't quite have everything(I'm still looking for Beckett's Molloy and McCarthy's Suttree), but it's worth looking into
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Anonymous2008-10-22 13:18
bookchan
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Anonymous2008-10-22 15:38
The Barnes & Nobel near me has a functionally retarded security system. So, I'll say "neither".
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Anonymous2008-10-22 15:39
#bookz on irc.undernet.org is a good place to find free literature, although the quality and selection can vary.
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Anonymous2008-10-27 7:43
i only read textbooks, & they are too damn expensive to always buy.