Comment by mmrezaie
9 years ago
I ask the same question from my wife! Some people only read on paper. We have two of each book because I read on Kindle and she reads it on the actual physical book.
9 years ago
I ask the same question from my wife! Some people only read on paper. We have two of each book because I read on Kindle and she reads it on the actual physical book.
Other than "active" pages with live charts and other data (which are great!), as well as Control-F (which cannot be understated), I prefer paper books on every possible way.
They're easier on my eyes. They're easy to bookmark forever. You can sort your books in a way that the physical placement of your book itself (the thickness, the colors, whatever) helps you organize or remember important details instead of just getting lost in a pile of ebooks in folders. And the backlights are bad for trying to fall asleep while reading which may sound odd, but I have the _least_ ADD when I'm about to fall asleep and everything calms down so I learn the best.
I use ebooks, but I absolutely prefer the real thing whenever possible.
And I say all of this as someone who has given away all of his DVDs and won't buy BluRays for his movie collection. I'd rather just rip something and dump it to my hard drive. Those little DVD boxes were filling many shelves and I was like "Why? All I do is watch them. And the bloody intro ads treat me like I'm a pirate for buying them."
So my point there is, I'm not just some sentimental person who clings to physical things. I like my physical books because they're better for me.
But, I'm not some zealot who thinks, "Anyone who uses ebooks is wrong/worse/whatever."
"They're easy to bookmark forever"
Have you ever dropped a book and lost your page? What a tragedy :)
I get distracted a lot when I read online. The browser is one click a way. With a book you can sit away from your computer, underline. Diagrams look better. You can focus more.