And the actual reality of that "distraction" is that your reader, if you so choose, can do a myriad of other useful and fun things for you.īut that was a funny article from a luddite.
that part is just getting off the ground, but it was of direct help to me when I began to learn infrared photography and Apple's Cocoa so I'm personally sensitized to how great it is and now, with the whole "its backed up in the cloud", you can't even lose your books if you drop your reader down the face of the Hoover dam. you can self-publish without having to have an agent (that's me!), an editor, a publishing house, a marketing plan, and years of fruitless trying you can carry your whole library with you, and I'm talking a LOT of books, so not only is all your fun reading with you, now you can always have your programming references and textbooks and so forth with you too. As of recently, they've come up with a way to lend the book and you can't lose it, it simply "snaps" back into your library after the lend is up. You can't lose your place - an e-reader keeps track of what page you were on for every book you're reading, no matter how many that might be. You can read with music, if that's pleasing to you. Patience.) You can read silently, page turns are noiseless. There is linkage to summary and statistical info on the book YOU control the font size, and trust me, as an older guy compared to most of the rest of you puppies, that's a big deal you can dim the thing and read late at night without disturbing your SO (you'll get girlfriends. me, I think reading in the sun is insane, but that's just me.) There are hot dictionaries, hot notes, hot highlights, sharing of same so you can see if what you think is interesting is what everyone else thinks is interesting. the litany is long and distinguished: You don't lose 'em you don't misplace them they don't age you can read them in the dark (well, unless you went with e-ink, but then you can read in the sun if you're so inclined. And it cuts down the amount of actual cool stuff you can carry. Not exactly a pleasant experience, or a lovely fashion accessory. Or ask a college kid or graduate about the "sense of permanence" that is the reality of a backpack filled with heavy texts. Or their lovely child has ripped out the conclusion to chapter three. It's being unable to find the title because someone has put it back funny, or not put it back at all. It's the incredibly lousy, acid infused paper that has yellowed, and smelled-up, and eventually caused to crumble, the pages of many of my otherwise treasured reads.
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it's a spine that will crack when you open the book years later. It's a machine, and it does what *I* tell it to, not the other way around.Īnd then there's that poignant call: "a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience" As an owner of thousands of books, let me tell you what that "permanence" is. Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this text that doesn't change.'"īecause this whole "distraction" thing is complete and utter nonsense. 'I think, for serious readers, a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience. Then there's Jonathan Franzen, regarded as one of America's greatest living novelists, who says consumers have been conned into thinking they need the latest technology and that e-books can never have the magic of the printed page.
A recent survey by Forrester Research showed that 31 percent of publishers believed iPads and similar tablets were the ideal e-reading platform one year ago, 46 percent thought so. Reading itself is trying to compete.' There are also signs that publishers are cooling on tablets for e-reading. 'It's constantly saying, "You could be on YouTube now." Or it's sending constant alerts that pop up, saying you just got an e-mail. 'The tablet is like a temptress,' says James McQuivey. Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that people who read ebooks on tablets like the iPad are beginning to realize that while a book in print is straightforward and immersive, a tablet is more like a 21st-century cacophony than a traditional solitary activity offering a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks.
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