My sister swears by her Kindle. She was just out for a visit for my dad's wedding & kept it with her the whole time. I like the fact that they keep a backlog of bought titles so that once you have bought something you retain access to it even if you can no longer store it, which is a major positive over the apple/itunes policy about things. Steve Jobs will not include blu-ray drives on apple computers because he claims they are not future looking enough, but the real reason is that he wants everyone to buy non hard copy digital films from iTunes. Probably several times if a system ever crashes or what have you. At any rate I like the kindle/amazon policy much more.
So that's a roundabout way of engaging in the question of how fond you are of yours??? I personally have gotten stuck on digital audio books, because I can read while I walk or clean house or practice flamenco or what have you. I am sure I lose something in the translation but I also may gain something & respond in a different, more aural tradition way to works of literature. Reference titles which I use like a bibliography seem to be the only hard books I pick up anymore.
I used to keep a bookmark whenever I'd read soemthing important or detailed like a philosophical treatise, & write the page & paragraph & line number of anything I wanted to re-read or have access to later, & then I'd type it out in the computer & have a sort of shorthand- cliffs notes reference to the better quotes afterward. It seems like the kindle has a highlighting type of function, which is cool if it gives a person good access afterward. Probably there isn't a great diversity of differing translations & versions of books available yet, though, I am guessing...
So that's a roundabout way of engaging in the question of how fond you are of yours??? I personally have gotten stuck on digital audio books, because I can read while I walk or clean house or practice flamenco or what have you. I am sure I lose something in the translation but I also may gain something & respond in a different, more aural tradition way to works of literature. Reference titles which I use like a bibliography seem to be the only hard books I pick up anymore.
I used to keep a bookmark whenever I'd read soemthing important or detailed like a philosophical treatise, & write the page & paragraph & line number of anything I wanted to re-read or have access to later, & then I'd type it out in the computer & have a sort of shorthand- cliffs notes reference to the better quotes afterward. It seems like the kindle has a highlighting type of function, which is cool if it gives a person good access afterward. Probably there isn't a great diversity of differing translations & versions of books available yet, though, I am guessing...
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