On ebooks.

Jan 09, 2011 17:34


I know ebooks have become kind of a controversial topic for the book community ever since they got more and more popular. Some authors (but mainly publishing houses) are completely against them due to their belief that file sharing is taking money away from them, others embrace the ebook challenge and point out that file sharing gives them much ( Read more... )

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almighty_trice January 10 2011, 01:19:24 UTC
I'm a tree-killer. I love paper. XD
I cannot help myself but to buy books, hence I even buy books I end up hating anyway. Waste of money... Money I don't have. -____-

Perhaps I should do what you're doing, read online and trade my kidneys solely for books I adore. (Kinda hard to read on screen though.)

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princess_jime January 10 2011, 21:11:13 UTC
See, that's what happened to me before, I got a book, didn't like it at all, and got so mad... all I could think about was all the other things I could have done with that money. Never again.
But books in dead tree format are still beautiful to me, there's this whole opportunity to make it an art piece... which I adore.

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almighty_trice January 10 2011, 22:47:01 UTC
Gosh yes. I just adore how it looks. I tell often to my mum how much I just love books for just their looks, their form, their touch... (Well, there was a time I'd be wandering in shops touching the texture of drawing-paper). It's an illness, seriously. lol.

I better become a successful lawyer with tons of money while I'm at it, so I can afford a library like in the Beauty and The Beast. XD

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