Books
We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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No one will steal my tatty old used book if I leave it on a train
Plus, if I do, I can probably pick up another of the same copy at a charity shop for pocket change. I'm a very fast reader, but even I'm not that impressed with a device which offers you dozens, if not hundreds, of e-'books' at a time; doesn't mean you read fast, just means you might have trouble paying attention to any one thing for more than a short while.
Also, as a collector of Victorian, Edwardian and WWI manuscripts, a Kindle does nothing for me since I own the only existing copy of some of my most treasured books.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:50, Reply)
Plus, if I do, I can probably pick up another of the same copy at a charity shop for pocket change. I'm a very fast reader, but even I'm not that impressed with a device which offers you dozens, if not hundreds, of e-'books' at a time; doesn't mean you read fast, just means you might have trouble paying attention to any one thing for more than a short while.
Also, as a collector of Victorian, Edwardian and WWI manuscripts, a Kindle does nothing for me since I own the only existing copy of some of my most treasured books.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:50, Reply)
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