He reads physical books

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As a big ebook guy, I have no standing, but books also provide better opportunity for writing notes in.

If you read a la "How to Read a Book", you basically need something physical to mark up

physical books are better under natural light

Looking at a screen for over an hour hurts my eyes.

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>he cares how other people read

When will this meme fucking die. An ereader screen is more like a calculator display than a tablet one.

>books also provide better opportunity for writing notes in.

absolutely disgusting

Boring thread kys

People retain more information by reading physical books.

This isn't the case with e-ink displays.

But yes, reading on phones/tablets is fucking trash.

True, the contrast has been improving though. I don't mind reading my Paperwhite outside at all.

Has anyone ever compared physical books to ereaders specifically?

A physical book never runs out of battery ;)

yeah, unless you're reading for entertainment a physical copy is a requirement to write notes, an outline, underlining passages etc.

>Has anyone ever compared physical books to ereaders specifically?
Yes, plenty. While some were shilling by publishers before the ebook price bump, more than a few were actually sound methodologically. All of them found that physical books are associated with increased retention, particularly when studying and reading denser material.

that odd lemon smell from the crusty yellow pages is absolutely a positive

E-readers aren't always limited to reading. They often are hooked up to the internet, which risks fragmenting attention.

The internet has totally ravaged my ability to read anything on a computer. I have to print the material out and isolate myself with it.

Using internet on e-readers for anything other than looking up an odd word is like masturbating with sandpaper. You're being too paranoid here I think.

Hello non-academic!

They haven't been since ereaders shipped with 300dpi and backlight.

>That guy who doesn't take notes and forgets what the book was about 4 days later

You can't annotate an e-reader

>but books also provide better opportunity for writing notes in
not true, many dedicated applications for reading ebooks will let you make notes, and you don't even have to worry about running out of margin space or needing a pencil or highlighter to mark the book up with

Not on an e-reader though. Plus

ebooks don't have to be read on an e-reader
that is part of their beauty

Thread is literally about e-readers, autist.

>reading on ereaders is just as good as physical books
>but not for taking notes
>lmao just use a different device which aren't as good as ereaders for anything but taking notes
?????

I don't have an ereader or money so im reading infinite jest on my phone. anyone else read on phones?

You can get a used Paperwhite for $15-25.

Any book worth reading isn't available online

nice reading comprehension you got there. I said I don't have money.

That's literally worth less than two hours of work flipping burgers. Unless you're a starving child in the jungles of Central Africa you should be able to make it, poorfag.

>hurr u r noat smart n u cant undrstand complex things if u doant scribble in ur book omg wht is evenloose leaf paper u mean on smthjng separate jenius fuk omg

I've underestimated you, you're obviously an academic. Please forgive me.

as a wristlet, ebook wins every time

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>that'll teach'em heh

I don't really care about efficiency or the environment, I just like the feel of having a physical book in my hands. Maybe some people prefer the e readers and that's fine, but I prefer physical copies.

This is actually very true, unfortunately

I speak from woeful personal experience.

Redditors confirmed for liking ebooks?

you're a big ebook guy

For you

op never mentioned ereaders

>Not just remembering what you read

damn son are you retarded?

>He reads or buys e-books
I only read things online if I have to, and that's when I am downloading pdf's to read because I can't find physical copies of books.

Daily Reminder to read a physical book to reduce screen time, especially if you have problems sleeping at night.

>day two past the target delivery date waiting on my Kobo Glo HD to come in the mail

E-Readers are for the kind of person that advocates for civil law and says stuff like "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear", thinks Magna Carta is just a boring, irrelevant thing they use to torture kids with in school, wholeheartedly supports European integration, doesn't want kids but would gladly give them to the state if they did, etc., in short: Horses who have convinced themselves that life is better with blinkers.
The feeling of liberty that comes with having two books open at once or being able to flip through a book will always be alien to those under the oppression of the refresh rate.

>he reads published books

>the feeling of liberty that comes with having thousands of books at your fingertips on a device smaller that a trade paperback will always be alien to those under the opression of MUH TANGIBLE MEDIUM

>I think having a soft bed is a liberty, and that is my highest value
Proves my point.

We're all going to die.

Not soon enough. This board is garbage. It should have been deleted years ago.

>reading printed books instead of parchment scrolls
Pleb detected.

you can do that with an e reader

Physical books leave an imprint in my memory where the text physically exists in the written pages.

Also
>reading ebooks when you can listen audiobooks

woah....

I was a rabid paper fanboy until I realized I could pirate all the ebooks I wanted. Now I only read paper when I can't pirate.

>We can have stuff in heaven(hell)

>listening to audiobooks when you can read instead
I will never understand people like you. I read far fucking faster than the pace of an audiobook, and even if I didn't my eyes would hijack my attention away from my ears anyway, which doesn't happen the other way around.
Audiobooks are pretty much non-viable for me.

I find physical books to be superior because e-books suck at formatting textbooks and the illustrations come crappy. It's also much more of a pain in the ass for quick reference.

E-readers are superior when one has to travel about a lot.

I prefer e-readers for note taking. Mark a bunch of words, click "note", type it in. Easy.

Then you can go to an index of all your notes and look through each one and go to the specified section where you took it if you so wish, without 1000 bookmarks turning your physical copy into a rainbow.

delete this

/ t h r e a d

>not pirating everything
Kindle user detected
I proofread my writing sometimes on my Kindle, make notes, and sit it by my computer later and make corrections.

I believe that but I'd think it only applies to educational books, where you get the benefit of thumbing back and forth, looking at nice coloured diagrams and just having a better overview of the whole page.

I believe that person meant with sticky notes, I may be wrong though

this
>being a slave to the acidic jew
sorry no, I think i'll stick with my physical books

REEEEEEEE

>don't get whatever material item i want for my birthday
>still going to die one day

Audiobooks are for brainlets who need everything read to them. Sad!

He should have ended with "who cares if you had, you're gonna die anyway"

>implying your musty old tomes full of lonely scribbles are going to impress post-millennial Ph.D.s with annotated libraries in their smartphones linking cross-referenced personal notes from all their colleagues who read the same whatever

Sorry, bookos. You had a nice, long run as the apex of intellectual media, but clinging to the past doesn't help the future.

phenomenology of paper > phenomenology of screen

Funny this thread pops up two months before xmas.

My bet is that they add an annotations feature to the nook

Never in my whole life have I defaced a book by writing notes in it, and I think people who do that ought to have their hands chopped off.

I've actually never learned how to read. I buy the books and bring them to a bright and public place and I flip through the pages as if I were reading them.

For each supposed "level of difficulty" that a book is at, I will time my page turns accordingly to give the impression of comprehension.

For example, I breezed through The Great Gatsby in one afternoon. Now that I'm "reading" The Brothers Karamazov, I find myself sloughing through it at a much slower pace.

It has gotten the attention of some English students from the local university though, which is nice. It's been fun to talk about the books I have "read" with them, because their enthusiasm is usually a good disguise for my lack of ability. I just nod my head and smile when they light up over a certain passage or charter. They do all the talking, I do all the listening. This has helped when I need to reference things. For example, I have started calling people "old sport" like Jay Gatsby does. I assume Jay Gatsby is some kind of baseball player or something.

Mostly though, when I'm sitting at the coffee shop staring at the strange squiggles on the page, I think of pornography.

:)

So you're saying Harry would have failed potions if he had gotten your book?

Why do you want Voldemort to win?

You're supposed to pretend you're better and call other people names you fucking autist

I prefer e-readers when I'm reading things like Lolita or erotica.
Actually I'm self-conscious about almost everything. I haven't finished Interview with the Vampire because I don't want to take it with me in public.

anyone read this ?

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>Not listening to audiobooks

what does it say?

>he goes to an art gallery to see paintings
>doesn't just google them

Are you gay? why do you have this saved?

>he doesn't read the authors original manuscript

Without them checking out the security footage of the art gallery it's harder for them to figure out how much time you're spending looking at naked little boys.
Then again it's trickier to jerk off to them in public.

I can tell from the thumbnail that this is the gayest work that exists on the planet

bloody europeans

hot desu

I wouldn't mind cluttering my space with books, have a cozy personal library and all that but they're expensive. I can get .pdfs for free.

That being said I prefer audiobooks since I mostly want to go through books while on the move, and walking around with a physical book or reading in public is for hipster fags.

>tfw smartphone can store over 100 GB in micro SD and accessible keyring USB
Does not get enough appreciation desu.

>use ebooks for mass reading and accessibility
>use physical for your favorites or random finds
There.

tablet guy should also say "i reduce comprehension with prolonged use"

>amerilard uncomfortable with nude bodies
What is it with you people and this puritan bullshit?

I never understood why people would go out and buy a separate device just to read on.
Having any book I want on my phone is the best.

Because reading on your phone is garbage.

So let's buy another phone-like device to read on
Brilliant.

kek

It's not a phone-like device at all. It uses e-ink. It is no different than paper. You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

I prefer actual books for the same reason why I prefer buying physical copies of video games, movies, and albums. I like the experience of going into a store and browsing the selection, actually looking through the selections in the hopes of finding something I've never heard of, holding the weight of the book, seeing the physical amount of pages it has, staring at the covers, and just having someone's work in my hands.

Definitely the highlight of physically shopping for physical books is having to actually browse a selection, and find a hidden gem on your own. You go on Amazon, click on a genre, and it instantly brings up what's popular, and it tries to dictate what you will read based on that.

Plus, if I don't like something I can pass it on to someone else. You're basically stuck with digital versions.

How do I delete Kindle books from the cloud, or are they there forever once I buy them? I'm giving mind to my mother and keeping the same account linked, but don't want her to eventually find the erotica I've bought.

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