Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 06, 2021

I love real books but if I’m traveling ebooks are the best.

Don’t know anyone who reads as much as my wife and she is not into ebooks. She doesn’t even like paperbacks. For her it’s hardcover all the way.

My library has all three formats, modern paperbacks fall to pieces very quickly. Of ebooks I prefer pdf over kindle, computer generated versions of old books have a lot of errors so I download scanned books from the Internet Archive by preference.

My wife bought me a Nook one year. It was nice but I never felt comfortable buying eBooks. With a real book if the publisher goes under I still have the book. With eBooks I worry that if my Nook crashed and B&N stops supporting them I’d have nothing to show for all the money I spent on eBooks. The same goes for buying movies that are stored online for you. So after reading all of the free stuff I grew bored with it and it just sat there unused for a couple of years. Then I did some research and found out that the Nook is android based. I also found resources to hack it and turn it into an android tablet. Now I use it to read my online newspaper subscription and occasionally look something up online while watching TV (it’s hard to use a desktop that way). It’s slow but still useful.

Now for the question: Are those old photos part of the “Special” archive?

For me vacation books were always paperbacks, if they’re lost or stolen I’m only out $5-$25.00. Plus, who’d steal a paperback vs tablet, etc. Smartphone screens are too small for my eyesight.

Things don’t pop up as well, or as often, as they used to.

There are so many books out there, and we never read the same book twice. So, off they go to the thrift store, or given away, so that the kids don’t have to deal with them when we’re gone. Lots of books do look cool, though, if properly displayed. As for digital photos, we print the good ones in a photo album that you can design on line, and the company makes you a bound book that they mail to you. We’re just finishing our latest “5 year book”, having spent hours culling 3,000 digital photos into a manageable 300.

So very true. Companies pay good money to access old files on computer systems that are no longer out there. That Tandy 1000 may yet pay off!!! (LOL)

We have 22 bookshelves and they are mostly full. Lost a tablet and a hard drive last year, but the books are all okay.

I like my books!

AFAIK, you can’t loan or borrow an ebook. Unless you give that person your tablet. Haven’t seen any used ebook stores.

Arlo, your dead trees are still great but make really bad photo storage solutions.

I was never much of a reader until I discovered Kindle a few years ago. Now, I have discovered a whole new world of Fiction. I wish I had read all these books decades ago. I am currently reading “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” – everything from my local Library, so no cost. Books for me caused problems – especially paperbacks. Pages falling out, and print that is WAY too small. Who wants to work that hard to read a book? Kindle is too small for me too, so I use my laptop and/or iPad. Very handy. The backlight makes it very easy to see/read, and when I come across a word I don’t know, I just press on it and I get an instant pop up definition of the word. Great help. I’m anxious to try all the classics soon, David Copperfield, Little Women, etc.. I’ve told my wife I wish I was back in High School so that I could read all these books again.

In 20 years they’ll have video clips played as a stereophonic hologram…

I store all the 4 leafed clovers I find into the pages of books — those are nice to find when you’re reading.

He’s got that right. In 20 years we might have a totally different way to store data. Remember microfiche? How about floppy discs? Anyone still using either one of those? Did you remember to scan everything you wanted to save?

Curious coincidence: as I was reading through these comments (online) my wife found a story (online) of a small child who opened an old bible and a flattened leaf fell out. He exclaimed, “Look, Mom! I think I found Adam’s underwear!”

I have helped clean out the homes & flats of older relatives. You come to the photo albums. Mostly, they end up just getting pitched….memories than mean little today…sad

Too many photos can be their own problem. My Mother-in-law,(May she rest in peace)took pictures of EVERYTHING. Re-pot a plant ? Take a picture Move a knick-knack. take a picture.I swore if you pieced them together, you could recreate her entire home & garden.

It is funny – if I run across an old picture while reading a physical book, it is a pleasant diversion. If I have a random picture out of my archive pop up while I am reading an e – book I find it annoying. I don’t exactly know why that is.

I love my Kindle. I get all my books from the library, so they are free. I can read, have it read aloud to me, or do both. Comes in handy when I am working jigsaw puzzles or working in the garden. I’m now 76, so being able to set the font size makes it even nicer.

Have them all digitized.

My son wanted to borrow a book a while back, asked me why a twenty year old joint was being used as a book mark. Hmmmm

Arlo’s got a good point.

My wife and I had almost 700 books. We donated them to the Veterans Hospital and now read mostly E-Books.

Nothing like a hardcover…

Quantity over quality.

Touche’

I can’t concentrate on reading something of depth which lasts more than a few lines on a screen. When I have to do research on taxes for clients I actually print out the page from pdf from IRS – though husband found a monitor for me which turns to vertical for reading same – doesn’t help much.

Then again the books I read are not likely to turn up as ebooks – they tend to be antique books or odd more recent books on history – not popular books.

During the extensive blackouts we have had over the past decades or so from storms which can last 4 days or longer – a book can be taken outside and read in daylight – once the batteries run down – ebooks are hard to read.

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