Let's settle this! E-Book or Real Book?

[MK Shrimper]

A vote for paper is a vote against the environment.

Yer all that plastic made from recycled oil........:unsure:

 

[steveo]

and colouring with age in

Blimey! OBL uses colouring books. Wont work on an ebook reader though.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

A vote for paper is a vote against the environment.

Is is still the 1980's? Paper is renewable, oil & metal aren't.

 

[Bluesmanager]

I love the feel and smell of my books, they are old friends, well thumbed pages and colouring with age in some cases, have no inclination or wish to try an ereader so I'm afraid I'm a stick in the mud and have voted for the real thing.

As an aside, I'm guessing you probably don't get to notice mistakes in ereaders cos they're probably so clever that they correct stuff anyway!

Nope. In fact, there's probably a lot more mistakes in e-books (well, Kindle ones at any rate) than in paperbacks. Simple silly grammar errors, some rubbish code appearing in the middle of a climactic battle, and, rather oddly, a whole book insisting a character (a Pegasi at that!) was one sex, then the next book insisting said character was the other (correctly).

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Is is still the 1980's? Paper is renewable, oil & metal aren't.

I wish it was. Maggie would still be pulling the strings, Dave Webb would be leading us to glory and Helen Mirren would still be on the acceptable side of sexy.

 

[Hotman]

Ebook without doubt. Only slight drawback is that some airlines (ba and bmi) tell you not to use them during takeoff and landing

 

[Hotman]

I'd be interested, of all those who voted real book, who has actually read a whole book on a proper e reader (not an iPad as they can cause headaches because of the backlight). Whereas all of the ebook reader owners have tried both...

 

[steveo]

Is is still the 1980's? Paper is renewable, oil & metal aren't.

But you dont buy a new ebook reader every time you want a new book. and if we are going down the green route, transportation costs are fairly low on ebooks.

 

[steveo]

I'd be interested, of all those who voted real book, who has actually read a whole book on a proper e reader (not an iPad as they can cause headaches because of the backlight). Whereas all of the ebook reader owners have tried both...

Question MC, why dont you turn the backlight down?

 

[Hotman]

Question MC, why dont you turn the backlight down?

Because I don't know how :(

 

[steveo]

Because I don't know how :(

Presumably youve updated to iOS4.2.
Double click the round home button and a bunch of icons appear at the bottom of the screen. Scroll left and the volume/play/rewind/brightness controls appear. This way, you can adjust the brightness while you still have a book open so you can see the effect of your changes

 

[Mad Cyril]

I have found it very hard to wipe the crayon off of a kindle when I have finished colouring a picture.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Presumably youve updated to iOS4.2.
Double click the round home button and a bunch of icons appear at the bottom of the screen. Scroll left and the volume/play/rewind/brightness controls appear. This way, you can adjust the brightness while you still have a book open so you can see the effect of your changes

Ah,hah.:sherlock:
Stevo,(or any kindTechie)
Could you give the unenlightened a quick tutorial on how to mulitquote?

 

[canveyshrimper]

Has any one tried Calibre for downloading ebooks? Just had it recommended to me.

 

[Hotman]

Has any one tried Calibre for downloading ebooks? Just had it recommended to me.

Yes, use it for my Sony ebook readers as the Sony software is slow and only let's you have one device.

Cracking bit of software, you can change authors etc so they are consistent, and can also change formats (Sony prefers lrf whereas most you buy are ePub or PDF)

Let me know how you find it - it's a free download.

 

[Hotman]

Presumably youve updated to iOS4.2.
Double click the round home button and a bunch of icons appear at the bottom of the screen. Scroll left and the volume/play/rewind/brightness controls appear. This way, you can adjust the brightness while you still have a book open so you can see the effect of your changes

Learn something new every day. And I've just learned that mine was on minimum anyway!!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Yes, use it for my Sony ebook readers as the Sony software is slow and only let's you have one device.

Cracking bit of software, you can change authors etc so they are consistent, and can also change formats (Sony prefers lrf whereas most you buy are ePub or PDF)

Let me know how you find it - it's a free download.

Thanks for that, I've just downloaded it and will give it a go later.

 

[steveo]

Ah,hah.:sherlock:
Stevo,(or any kindTechie)
Could you give the unenlightened a quick tutorial on how to mulitquote?

i didnt multiquote intentionally i just posted an image to photobucket and added the url for this forum.