E-readers!!!  Does anybu

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E-readers!!!  Does anybu

E-readers!!!  Does anybuggy have one/ is getting one??  My friend got the Kindle for her birthday, and that got me interested in them, and now my aunt has come up from FL for July with her granddaughter, and she's getting me the Nook for a late birthday present!  I've been soooo excited recently, and I think were going shopping for it in the next few days.  Anyway if you have an ereader, this thread is all for them!  (Admins too!)

 

I don't have one, and I've only seen it in a commercial on TV. Kindle is a great invention, but I still love holding a real book and turning real paper pages!

Admin

submitted by Cherry☺☻, age 12
(July 17, 2010 - 10:59 am)

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I do want one, partly because Kindle books cost less than regular ones and I keep spending everything I have on them, because there are so many I want. There still are. And partly because I'm tired of carrying humongous stacks of books each time I go on vacation. I don't have one, though...

I agree with the admins, though, for the most part.

submitted by Ima
(July 17, 2010 - 10:31 pm)

@ Ima, Yeah, one reason I'm to get allowed one is the cost of books.  Also for the nook I was looking and they have hundreds of free books too!  Thats really good for me, because I have to buy all my own books once I get it. 

My mom said that if I don't go out with my godmother/Aunt in the next two or three days, she'll take me without her, because I'm getting really impatient.  (I'm not good at waiting.  You should have seen me waiting for my phone on my birthday)

submitted by Cherry☺☻, age 12
(July 18, 2010 - 9:03 pm)

TOP!!

submitted by Cherry☺☻, age 12
(July 18, 2010 - 9:47 am)

TOP!!!!!!!

submitted by TOPPER
(July 18, 2010 - 9:48 am)

I will never get an e-reader, call me what you will. Reasons? Look: 

 
Reading off a screen for long periods of time, for one thing, strains my eyes and makes my head hurt. It is not at all like reading off paper. Reading short stories, poems, or essays online, if I can't find them anywhere else, is something I do. But a whole novel? I think that that would be very hard on my eyes and give me a headache.
I like being able to lend out my books to people, something you cannot do with an e-reader. I love turning actual pages. I love the way books smell, both very old ones and new ones. I love seeing books stacked up to the ceiling on bookcases. It might be silly, or sentimental or whatever, but I love my books as objects. 
I like that if I tear a book, I can fix it easily and by myself, and if I get water on it it will dry and be readable later, and if I drop it it is not damaged. Whereas if I dropped an e-reader or got it wet, it would be damaged, perhaps irreparably, and if it wasn't irreparable, would not be something I fix do at home, by myself -- and it would probably cost a lot of money to get it fixed. So I would have to be extremely careful with an e-reader, and there would probably be places I could not take it. I want to be able to read my books wherever I go. And I don't like it that if something did happen to my e-reader, if I had one, I would be pretty much sunk. I don't like being so dependant on technology.
 
So, when all's said and done, I do prefer my dead trees, thanksverymuch. 
All others, of course, are free to do as they please, and I would not *dream* of judging them based on their preference. *cough* 
submitted by ZNZ
(July 18, 2010 - 9:50 am)

Those are some good points ZnZ, but actually on the Nook it has this really cool feature that you can actually lend ebooks to other people with Nooks.  I think thats really cool.

submitted by Cherry☺☻
(July 18, 2010 - 9:06 pm)

My uncle has one, and they're kind of appealing, but I have to go with the Admins. There's nothing like a real physical book to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, until death or torn pages do us part.

 

Sorry 'bout that. I just really like books. 

 

Anyway, an ereader would be especially tempting once I'm in college or otherwise on my own, just cause when you have a small dorm room or apartment, you don't have all that much room for an extensive library. Till then, though, I'll stick with paper and ink.

 

Cheers,

lav

 

It's also true, ZNZ, that the screens on things like Kindles are far easier to read off of than a laptop screen (I print out all my readings for school, but when my mother hands me her Kindle my eyes don't fall out). But I am also old fashioned. I love seeing my overflowing bookshelves. It's a testament to my reading accomplishment/book-buying-addiction. I'm just too fond of the physicality of books to switch to electronic. -(another) admin.  

submitted by lavendershy, age 14, Sparks, NV
(July 18, 2010 - 11:18 pm)

Although I adore all my techy things (iPod, computer, phones, tv), I just don't like the idea of electronic books. I can see how it would be easier, but I agree with the admin--- I like buying books and having bookshelves. And as ZNZ said, I would be constantly freaking out about losing/damaging it.

Though they would make reading in the dark a world easier, on nighttime car rides and in bed and such...

So I s'pose there are pros and cons, but I'll stick with physical books for now.

submitted by Mary W., age 12.5, NJ
(July 19, 2010 - 9:50 am)

@(Another) Admin: Yes, exactly! 

submitted by ZNZ
(July 19, 2010 - 2:00 pm)

I know what everyone means. For the most part, I'd definitely prefer to just read actual books. Certainly I wouldn't pay hundreds of dollars just to be able to read books electronically, especially ones I really love. Books that I read and reread over and over become special to me, and I somehow don't think electronic books could ever have as much sentimental value... It's just that I think it would be nice to have for long journeys and things. And I found free ones available for certain computers, actually, on Amazon. I would definitely get one of those if I had the right computer, but I don't...

submitted by Ima
(July 19, 2010 - 1:43 pm)

For some reason I'm just opposed to the idea of E-readers. We've made a techy thing for almost everything, but books are one of the only things where it just seems... wrong, somehow. 

 

Hurrah for those dear old books that my grandmother read to my mother when she was little and that have been handed down through the generations in our family--The Five Little Peppers, Heidi, The Secret Garden, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Uncle Wiggley, The Dutch Twins, etc. etc.

Admin

submitted by Ann
(July 19, 2010 - 5:27 pm)