The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 05, 2024

Never used an e-reader because I love the smell of the paper books.

“Let your finger do the walking.”

I love my Ereaders. They offer me entire libraries of books without taking up lots of space.

I like the the convenance and portability of my E-Readers. I used to have many print copies of books, but sadly had to thin out the number after moving into a one bedroom apartment. I have kept several of my favorites and downloaded copies of some of the books I’d sold or donated. I loved the experience of opening physical copy of a brand new book. The sent combination of fresh ink, paper and binding glue were like the new-car smell to me.

The metaphor just got sideswiped.

When you use an E-Reader you left swipe to turn the pages. So when you left swipe does that mean you don’t like the book?

I am more old fashioned and love to read books.

Can you imagine if they updated the old TV show, Hawaii-Five-o.

Back then when McGarrett solved the crimes and said, “Book em! Danno!” That was SO COOL!

Nowadays McGarrett saying “E-Reader em! Danno!” It just doesn’t sound the same pizazz.

Isn’t it stealing if you swipe a page?

now if they could just give e-readers the same smell as old books…!

I still do real books. Swiping pages is just so wrong.

The peanut butter and jelly smears can make it a completely different story.

I like and use my e-reader, but I do like the tactile feel of a print book in the hand.

he sure pointed that in a new direction. :D

If you work harder, you can find an even older gag…

I read all the time and the only time I’ve read a paper book in the last 10 years is because I couldn’t get it digitally

I love my Kindle.

During Covid, our local library was closed. I learned to use my Ipad to find books. When I first started to read from the Ipad, my hand would come up to turn the page! Decades of “muscle memory” were showing, as I have been an avid reader since early childhood.

I love my books, and I love my Kindle. Although most of us who are at my age, and uncle Ted’s, still love our physical books so kudos to the old dog for picking up a new trick! Obviously, Brutus agrees by his expression in the final panel.

Uncle Ted keeps up with the times .

What makes reading fun when you read a book like that, whatever term you choose to use……

I’d rather have a Kathleen Turner…

( ͡ ﹏ʖ ͡  )

Uncle Ted learns to change with the times…..

Ted is way ahead of me. I want a tablet to read my music for church choir and band.

Nicely played

It took me a while but I finally started using one. I feel safer not having piles of books around me.

They do come in handy, you can even use them as a coaster.

Is Brutus adept with 21st Century Tech? Surprise Surprise. Shocked me.

Every time this guy is in the strip I first read his name as uncleted. (uncleted??)

the downside is that if you’re reading in bed and fall asleep, it’s gonna leave a bit of dent in your forehead, unlike a paperback… ☺

When my library was having a problem with the subscription to a certain magazine, they gave me a free trial to their web site. The pages actually appear to turn and there is a sound too.

I have read that people who read “real” books are more empathetic than those reading on devices. It does kind of make sense to me.

I’m currently listening to a Stephen King audio book. I finished Mercedes man a couple of days ago. Now I’m listening to Finders Keepers.

“I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Deaths shoreless sea, 
This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.” - Robert W. Service, Ballads of a Bohemian – 30 -

I ran out of physical book space awhile ago and couldn’t bear the idea of parting with any of the books in my collection, so I started using an e-reader. Very hand for increasing the size of one’s library!