scrubbedexpat091

My pet peeve is the difficulty it can be to get books these days, as in real books and not kindle or electronic. I can't read a book on an electronic device, bugs me.

Technology can be grand, but sometimes it's also annoying.

Nutek

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moneypenny20

Why can't you read on a Kindle? I agree about reading on a tablet, they're horrible but Kindle's should be fine, aren't they?

SultanOfSwing

Might be worth checking to see if your local library has a second hand book sale like ours does.

At ours, you get a paper bag (one of those hardware store sale type ones), fill it with as many books as you like and it only costs a tenner

I like my Kindle, it feels fine reading from it for long periods. I like it a lot better than the Kindle app on my phone, for comparison.

moneypenny20

I would struggle without my Kindle now, it's almost attached to me. Only problem I have is when I go back to a proper book it takes a few pages before I remember to read the left hand side pages as well.

Nutek

Another vote for Kindle. I would happily give up my tablet(s) before my Kindle if I had to make a choice.

Yorkieabroad

I've tried various different Kindles, plus my iPad and I just don't enjoy reading from them as much as I do from a book. I do do it - on flights, holiday etc,when it is clearly far more convenient than filling my carry on with heavy books, but by choice I would pick up a book instead of an e-book. E-Books give me the same sort of "deflation" of experience as when golf courses started insisting golfers wore plastic spikes instead of metal ones

But my main peeve about the electronic reader is that, particularly at home, I tend to sit down with the intention to read a novel, and get sidetracked into checking email, coming on BE, surfing the news channels, whatever....my consumption of actual novels has gone
way down since I got a tablet.

Nutek

Kindle solves all of that by being complete crap at anything but reading.

FlaviusAetius

I like being able to read my Kindle at night in the dark when my wife is sleeping. But, you can lose a lot of sleep that way.

SultanOfSwing

I'm still about 50:50 as far as reading from my Kindle and reading a normal book. It depends on what one I am reading. I still get books out of the library from time to time as well and I still haven't read all the books my mum gave me over the years so I have much catching up to do

I don't have a tablet. My wife does, but I make do with my phone. It's fine for BE, youtube and arsebook, but a pain in the arse to read on. Plus my Kindle has that pleasing background and electronic ink they use.

Mine won't let me do that, I just have the basic Kindle 3. Having no bells and whistles saves me from myself ...

Nutek

E-Ink. Best thing ever.

SultanOfSwing

I concur.

They are very handy for people like my wife and I, who love to read but don't have the space for lots of books. Win win, if you ask me

I still love the library though. That booky smell and blissful silence. Couldn't ask for more.

Yorkieabroad

This. Absolutely. 100%.

Yorkieabroad

Maybe thats my solution - I was using my sons Fire, and could pretty much do almost anything that I do on my ipad. If I revert to type and use the old (or at least old new) technology it may solve at least part of the problem!

Nutek

Pick up a paperwhite. That'll do you.