I have always been a voracious reader - but a lot of my reading is pulp, classic and out of print pulp when and where I can get it. This "gettability" varies between second hand bookstores (hole in the wall real ones as well as amazon sellers) and ebooks of one type or the other.
So I won't say my reading patterns have changed all that much after using the kindle for a long time (on my ipad and my laptop). Any huge spike in Udhay's reading after buying a kindle is more attributable to "hey, new toy!" right now. I guess he'll have to use it for a few months before things settle into a repeatable pattern. --srs (iPad) > On 30-Dec-2013, at 10:55, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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)) >> >>
