Books, books, dead tree books
I’ve been reading books on my kindle for almost 2 years now, and in all that time have not read a single ‘real’ book. With the cost of shipping, the unnecessary fuel I know it uses, and organising the volume on my shelves, it’s just not worth it.
I picked up a name for real books a while back on the kindle forums for these increasingly outdated volumes: “dead tree books”. It kinda sums it up pretty well, what’s the point of wasting paper when I have a wonderful gadget on which I can read on for weeks (current is about 3 weeks and still at 30% battery) between charges and can carry about the weight of a paperpack with hundreds of novels, short-story collections and even hard-to-find sci-fi mags (Asimov’s and Analog) all in easily convertible formats.
When I bought the kindle, I thought I’d miss that ‘new book smell’, but honestly, I really don’t (the leather-cover makes a decent substitute), and I’m reading more than ever :)
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