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30-03-2014, 06:26 PM
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Re: What book format do you like best?

I was lucky I got my kindle as a present but I find buying kindle books really cheap, often free so it would pay for it's self quite fast anyway.
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30-03-2014, 07:05 PM
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I just love to go to the library and get real books, usually 3 at a time. I love Alex McCall Smith too, lovely man & good author.
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30-03-2014, 07:24 PM
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If our library had any books I would agree but they are computer workshops now and coffee shops you rarely see a book in them here.
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30-03-2014, 07:27 PM
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That's a shame! Nice to meet folk in the library, we have "altered book" workshops in ours and they have a competition for the best one each year.
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30-03-2014, 08:25 PM
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Has to be a real book for me....and a cuppa with my feet up, heaven. I, also, like holding things, Rachel...
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30-03-2014, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Rachel ->
I like holding things
Er? Well you holds a kindle or you holds a book.

So which is it?

Yu is wot is called 'ambiguous'. I read that word in a book wot was on a Kindle - double whammy hold job.
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30-03-2014, 09:14 PM
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Re: What book format do you like best?

Mine is definitely the audio book, mostly on account of my eyes get tired very quickly on the e/books, but also because if you have a good professional reader reading a book it's a joy to listen to it. I prefer the murder/mystery books.
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31-03-2014, 05:47 AM
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Re: What book format do you like best?

It is not an either/or situation. I use an ereader (definitely NOT a Kindle) which I like very much but the last three books I have read have been hardbacks from the library.

The ereader is far more convenient it has about 100 books on it at the moment yet is smaller than a lot of paperbacks. Certainly when travelling I take the ereader but at home I don't mind; the library certainly has a better selection of physical books than it does ebooks but when I buy a book it is invariably an ebook.

The ereader also has the advantage of holding audio books and music
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31-03-2014, 08:01 AM
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Re: What book format do you like best?

Originally Posted by MKJ ->
Er? Well you holds a kindle or you holds a book.

So which is it?
neither

I HOLD ....
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31-03-2014, 08:19 AM
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Not used my Kindle for ages, even though it comes on holiday with me. By the time I've read newspapers, magazines, surfed the internet, sight-seed, slept, eaten, watched telly, etc., I've barely had time to open the device.

I always take one or more physical books too, which yes, defeats the object, but if at the time I have a goodun from the library, it comes with me.

I could read my books on my iPad or my Asus tablet, too, but I'm always at the library. Unfortunately I don't read books as often as I'd like to, especially if I'm disturbed by the neighbours and therefore can't concentrate. I always have a paper, Daily Mail, Metro, Evening Standard, Mature Times, or magazine (Computeractive, Writing, anything free from the supermarket) on the go.
 
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