Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 30, 2015

Adam, those are the worst words to tell your wife at this time.

The thing that just came to mind is which is more important, supporting authors or supporting the printing industry? The comments seem to be more about the latter than the former.

While I have Nook, I still prefer the feel of the book in my hands, and the ability to read for hours on end without my reading material getting hot or causing eye strain.

I have a kindle I got 6 years ago. I read the Hunger Games Trilogy and I thought it was so good that I wanted to give it to someone I knew would enjoy it. I couldn’t. Now I’m back to Paperbacks. More cumbersome, but they don’.t hang in the cloud. I pass them on. I still have the kindle but don’t use it. It does take minimal space on my bookshelf.

It’s great for when you want to take multiple books w/ you somewhere. But yeah, not so much for books you want to share. I love my e-readers AND real books. There is no reason someone can’t enjoy both. All this bickering over which one is “better” is just stupid and childish.

E readers may be light and efficient, but they have all the charm of any other electronic device, none, especially when compared to books.

I bought all the Wheel of Time books in hardcover when Robert Jordan first started writing them. I downloaded the Kindle app for my tablet & after I read my first book, I then downloaded all of the WoT books… and read everyone of them. So much nicer than holding the heavy 1,000 page books. Adam is so “right on”.

I imagine the same arguments were made at the switch from baked clay tablets to parchment.

And I know they were made with the switch from LP vinyl to CD and again to MP3.

I carry a small library (900 books currently with room for twice that) in my jacket pocket with less weight than one paperback and it runs for weeks and I can read it in total darkness or full sun for hours with no eyestrain.

As my eyes have aged I can enlarge or change the font in a second to suit my needs. (I am by no means young.)

There’s room for both technologies: Books and e-books.

A single book may not need power but what if you finish it and the **** plane is still not at the gate?