Books

Feb 26, 2015 09:45

I own very, very few physical books anymore. Three shelves total. One shelf is a pile of hardcover/art-type books, one is for paperbacks I loved too much to ever get rid of (and not available in ebook format), and one shelf is of books I bought before owning my Kindle and haven't read yet but figured I might one day if my Kindle dies and I have to ( Read more... )

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mayanas February 26 2015, 18:49:37 UTC
I too find that most books have terribly small writing now. I have read too much electronically! And worse, I can't change the text to what I want. I have no idea how I used to read any and all physical books all the time when I was younger. I love being able to change the contrast and colour and size and font to suit me exactly.

I AM sorry you can't find that book electronically. It sounds like an intriguing book! (And 'intelligent cats' is not what that cover made me think of, like, at all...)

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thistle_chaser February 26 2015, 19:27:57 UTC
Agreed! I used to read a book every day or two as a kid, which now that I think of it might be part of why my eyes are too bad to read them nowadays. I dream that one day every book will be available in ebook format, I just hope I'm around then.

It really was a good book. Humans landed on some other planet, where the lifeform was what seemed to them to be cougar-sized intelligent cats. The society was so interestingly different than ours. I was hoping to reread it and see if I still liked it as much. Maybe I need a magnifying glass!

Edit: This is the cover alternate cover. Still not perfect, but a whole lot better.

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