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(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:25, archived)
# They are all a load of wank, buy a book, god damn it
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:26, archived)
# reading sucks...
...too many words.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:28, archived)
# hmm
Why has a device that reads .txt documents become so popular?
(Appox i'm a box, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:32, archived)
# because stupid people buy it
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:34, archived)
# Simple
This desciptive article might help you understand the appeal.
(Jokel, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:34, archived)
# long overdue...
...i'd say.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:39, archived)
# it holds thousands of books
you can download and carry a library with you on trips, etc.

There's a place for it. It's not about laziness.

edit: I personally don;t own one. I like to hold a book while I read. But I know people who use them and I can see the appeal. No doubt I'll own one eventually.
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:37, archived)
# Meh, I want a netbook for viewing media while travelling
Problem is, the computer companies keep releasing new models every week or 2, so I keep thinking "If I wait just a little longer, I could get that model..."
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:39, archived)
# This^^^^
It is the same as mp3 players. They serve a purpose, but for me they will never replace a great physical collection.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:40, archived)
# ^^^
this - the internet is great, but nothing beats the feeling of thumbing through a well work German porno mag from the early 90s
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:46, archived)
# Pfft!
I found some old porn mags the other day. Kids today don't know how lucky they are ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:58, archived)
# There is nothing like holding a book and the smell of it as well
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:40, archived)
# very much so,
but I think I will one day own one in addition to my lovely paper novels
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:42, archived)
# I don't think I ever could
having played with one, it just doesn't feel and look right.
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:44, archived)
# Ah, those spunk-soaked pages
do stir up the memories!
:o)
(I helped save b3ta! printmeister http://tinyurl.com/c8s8fd5 for titanic T's, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:42, archived)
#
Is it Danish?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:43, archived)
# The single worst thing about them from my point of view
is that you can't share a book you've loved by passing it on, because you're not buying the book, you're buying the permission to read a device-specific version it.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:43, archived)
# I'm surprised that the publishing industry
hasn't come up with some sort of DRM thingy to combat this book sharing!
Maybe print them in code and you have to have an Enigma machine to enable you to read it!

:o)
(I helped save b3ta! printmeister http://tinyurl.com/c8s8fd5 for titanic T's, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:49, archived)
# they have and there is
some authors are up in arms about it, because they want there work to me freely available, or at least portions of it.

(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:55, archived)
# ...and if you piss Amazon off they'll block your account and you can do fuck all with any digital book you've bought
arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/04/amazon-kindle-incidents-highlight-drm-limitations-once-again.ars
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Wed 6 May 2009, 16:44, archived)
# For 489 dollars, hahaha, fuck that.
It's not like you need more than one book with you at any one time anyway so it's ultimately pointless for journeys.
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:46, archived)
# the only point of owning one would be school or uni imho

(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Wed 6 May 2009, 16:47, archived)
# An alternative ebook reader would be cheaper though I would have thought.
Plus can the kindle even read normal txt documents and pdfs or is it only special amazon bought shit? In which case it can fuck off given than the majority of books they sell are probably public domain anyway.
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:49, archived)
# LET'S NOT GET HUNG UP ON THE KINDLE, IT'S NEW
oops, sory, caps

there will be knock offs very soon and for half the price, just like mp3 players are now so ubiquitous. And personally I have more than one book going at any one time, so carrying them in one package would be a benefit. I'm arguing the pros and have no immediate desire to buy one, I just don;t see them as a bad thing.
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 17:00, archived)
# It's like the iPod thing, weren't the first or even the best mp3 players around yet everything now supposedly imitates them.
I read The Count of Monte Cristo in pdf format on my PC and War and Peace on paper, reading the paper book was inexorably harder because you have to fucking hunch over for hours on end instead of laying back and reading so it's unlikely I'd use it. And what the hell is it with people reading more than one book at once? I physically don't understand why people do that.

Also is the font on them naturally fucking massive due to the low pixel resolution or is that just a crappy screenshot?
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 6 May 2009, 17:08, archived)
# books have chapters
TV series have episodes

it's the same principal. I can watch and follow different shows at different times. I don;t have to watch an entire series with no other input to follow the story.

and I think you meant that 'reading the PC was inexorably harder', no?
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 17:13, archived)
# No.
PC - Office chair, lay back, gentle scroll down the pdf document as I'm reading. Bliss.

Book - Hunch over holding it, get sore of the same position and have to move, arms ache, back hurts from being hunched. Repeat Ad Nauseum.
(Jeru War and Piss, Wed 6 May 2009, 17:18, archived)
# ok, I got confused...
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 17:21, archived)
# speak of the devil
www.b3ta.com/questions/imagechallenge/post415804
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:54, archived)
# kind of like the premise of humankind in Wall-E
(I helped save b3ta! M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Wed 6 May 2009, 17:05, archived)
# Oooo Words..... Lot's of words......

o_O
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Wed 6 May 2009, 16:58, archived)