BooksWe 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.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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We were discussing this in a seminar the other dayand my lecturer mentioned his mother (who I should think would be in her seventies or eighties) adores her kindle and finds it indispensable. On the other hand, he's noticed that the young generation of students are totally 'hard copy', and prefer pen and paper.
I agree totally with him - as an English Lit student, I just can't see the Kindle or whatever as a study aid. I like to have my physical copy, with all my barely legible annotations next to my text. There's something reassuring about a book's physicality.
That's not to say I'm a technophobe or that the Kindle and it's ilk aren't really useful devices, but they're targeted at the kind of people who take more books than clothes with them on holiday I suppose.
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Bats, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:47,
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