I use the Kindle app on a 7" Android tablet and, since I started, I read more each month than in any of the 5 or 10 previous years. One big reason is the instant gratification, see a notice about an interesting book in a magazine or blog or whatever and POP, you have it.
I think that: - the future of paper is restricted to antiquarian books and things that require high-quality graphics, coffee-table to textbook - the pricing of ebooks is insane - the production values of ebooks are horrible, if something needs graphics or maps or math to work, get paper Some recent gleanings in https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Arts/Books/ On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > So I got myself a Kindle. And whether it is the novelty or the > device-specific aspects (doesn't need ambient light, sufficiently > booklike that one can read sprawled in bed, etc) - I have consumed 3 > books in 3 days, more than in the preceding 3 months. > > So - have you folks noticed your reading habits change with the means > of reading? Is this a special case of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis [1]? > > Udhay > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > >
