10 Ways eBooks Are Changing Our Lives

The Denver Post:

The Hermitage Bookshop in Cherry Creek North, decidedly old-school with its oak furniture and elaborate Persian rug, isn't where you'd expect to find a fan of e-books, but listen to owner Bob Topp: "E-books have increased the purchase of print books," he says.

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[LearnMe]

11:09 PM on 04/20/2011

I love books. I love lists. Put the two together and you have my fav pastime. www.learnmeproject.com

[FanofPaine]

01:40 PM on 04/20/2011

I really debated getting an e-reader. I love my paperbacks a lot. However, I've simply run out of room for more books. I have more books than any other thing that I own so I finally broke down and bought a Nook. Am I going to get rid of my favorite paperbacks? No. But I will donate or sell the books that I won't be reading again. In this way the e-book has been awesome.

[TeeSC]

07:04 PM on 04/20/2011

My husband put his foot down on buying any more books so I started going to the library.  I just don't see myself with a Kindle in lieu of the real thing.

[FanofPaine]

04:45 PM on 04/26/2011

Well, my Nook is compatible with the e-books my library will be getting in May so I don't have to think about that either. It was why I purchased a Nook (though Kindle will soon allow some library formats, I believe).

I'd say borrow someone's device to see if you like it. I didn't think I would, but I very much do. It's kind of interesting to have a library full of books in one device. I've only had mine for about three weeks and I already have ten books stored away on it.

[LisaLisa1234]

09:59 PM on 04/19/2011

The author seemed a little stuck in Kindle-land. :) Kindles are GREAT, wonderful...but there's a reason that there's competition in the e-reader market.

[FanofPaine]

01:55 PM on 04/20/2011

Exactly. I'd like to think that the author of the article was only used to the Kindle and that's why they were stuck on that e-reader.

I have a Nook myself and I like it very much. I believe Nook, Sony and Kindle owners pretty much like their devices.

[booker52]

06:24 PM on 04/19/2011

I have three different e-readers. My first was a Sony as it works with the local library. Then my husband got a Nook. Finally we got a Kindle with the big in 3G network for traveling. Love them all, love regular print books as well. I gave have my books away to the local library.

[firstep]

04:51 PM on 04/19/2011

Somehow my book shelves look much better with books instead of an electronic device.

[Dogontired]

04:58 PM on 04/19/2011

True. However, I've just not enough space to keep every book I read, so I keep my book shelves edited to the books most treasured. The thing is this isn't a one vs the other kind of choice. I'll never give up my love for a well made quality book, but that doesn't mean an e-reader doesn't have it's value as well.

[booker52]

06:25 PM on 04/19/2011

Agreed

[Richard Pearce]

07:44 PM on 04/19/2011

Though I have faced the same problem, and resorted to the same solution (just like all my siblings, walk into any one of our houses and you will find more wall space dedicated to bookshelves than to TVs, clothes, and kitchen cupboards combined) there are two things to keep in mind.
 
The first is that those who grow up using e-readers to read are no more going to devote the space and money to hardcopy books than those who are growing up using MP3 players to listen to music are devoting space and money to hardcopy music.
 
The second is will there be format stability?  Will the e-book readers of twenty or thirty years from now be able to display the files created for today's e-book readers?  If not, odds are that the parents of then are not goingto be able to share with their children the books that played a role in their own formative years, other than a small massively popular mainstream selection.
 
That said, there is a hidden up-side to them, the elimination of the absolutely massive carbon footprint and waste creation that mass market publishing on paper involves (unless you've seen behind the scenes of the bookshelves and display racks of your bookstores, newsstands, and everywhere else that you find  new books being offered for sale, you'll have no idea of how many million tons of books get printed, shipped across the country, and tossed, unread, into either landfills or chippers (after which they are again shipped first to the printers and then shipped, with a new layer of ink, across the country to face the same fate) to make room for the next week's selection)

[ChelleAgain]

11:28 PM on 04/19/2011

Yes, it's too bad that it's either/or. Oh, wait...

[luvU2]

04:34 PM on 04/19/2011

I will take a book, with pages and spine any day over a little plastic box.

[ChelleAgain]

04:26 PM on 04/19/2011

**It's easy for people to read the Sunday paper, look at a book review, and 10 minutes later, they've got that e-book on their Kindle.**

It's like he'd been spying on me.

[1jdgriff]

04:16 PM on 04/19/2011

I have two rooms full of books, I use to take a carry-on full of books for two weeks in Hawaii, now I take my Kindle. . . . . . I love it.

[FlaviaDeLuce]

01:47 PM on 04/19/2011

I love Kathy Reichs books