I certainly agree much of it comes down to reading style. The digital readers work well in certain situations and the old printed books work well in certain situations.
For me, I am on the go quite a bit. I have snippets of time available to burn waiting to pick up one of my kids - usually only a few minutes or waiting for something. In these situations, the book method is more difficult. You need to plan to have your book available with you (have to carry it around...Ugh!!!!) - I always have my phone with me and most of the time, don't know ahead about the possibility of reading. My wife may suddenly tell me to go pick up one of the kids from soccer. I dash out the door and arrive - only to find they are still practicing for another 5 minutes. There is my reading time. The digital reader on the phone works amazingly well for that. Instant on right to the spot where I was last reading. Since the pages are small, it takes very little time scanning the page to pick up where I left off. Another time for me to read is what Keith mentions - in the bed at night in the dark. The lit screen alleviates all the clumsiness of dealing with reading lights. I also find that I tend to read straight through a book - rapidly. The digital method works well for that. I suspect that if I were doing a studying oriented project, that the digital reader would feel very cramped and clumsy. Much like trying to write a research paper in a text message. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, July 20, 2009, 4:29:09 AM, you wrote: KW> P. J. Alling wrote: >> I don't know, I've not been particularly impressed with the dedicated >> readers I've seen. I've been reading documentation on computer screens >> for the past 15 or 20 years, since Microsoft stopped printing bound >> manuals anyway, and a good monitor works well enough. KW> A discussion point ~ or two. KW> My reading "style" if I can call it that, is desirous of a physical book KW> in which I can access previous chapters, pages, etc., at my leisure, for KW> reference, or any other whim... KW> Not always, but often enough that being denied that instant, random KW> ability to go back to what I read before seriously hampers me! KW> I've always read that way. On occasion, I'll serial read a book, cover KW> to cover, and never go back to re-read anything. But not very often. KW> The one advantage I find my Kindle very useful for, is reading in bed! KW> I always read until I get sleepy, and having a Kindle full of reading KW> material is a big advantage. KW> No more end table or dresser piled up with reading material, usually KW> paperback sized books. KW> I fully recognize the folly of buying (and downloading) a Kindle book, KW> and later deciding I like it enough to want my own hard copy available, KW> so I go out and buy one! KW> Now I have two! One on the Kindle, one in my bookcase. KW> Sounds pretty lame to me too (!), but I don't expect that to happen KW> often. Just with select books... KW> Bottom line? I guess I'm in the process of trying to get used to a KW> reader like the Kindle; something I couldn't imagine my doing not too KW> long ago. Had my first Kindle not been a gift, I'm not sure the KW> inclination would ever have grown large enough to buy one for myself. KW> Do I even WANT to get used to it? I think so. It definitely has it's KW> utility... KW> Just some random stream of consciousness dialog, for what it's worth... KW> :-D keith KW> -- KW> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List KW> [email protected] KW> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net KW> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
