After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc Paper books can be better for reading outside under a tree on a sunny day though.
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@mcc Paper books can be better for reading outside under a tree on a sunny day though.
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc Am I to understand that the bedside lamp has become extinct?
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc or when I press on a word and its definition or translation doesn't show up ...
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
I constantly tap the right side of the page anticipating that it'll turn.
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I have come to very much like it when books have large print and also glow in the dark
@mcc I have a large print hardback of The Hobbit. Reading it is pure luxury
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc
Sibling in suffering. I bought a bunch recently because support local bookshop, and I figure I should get back to books I own rather than licence.It is hard. I've read more eBook words in the meanwhile though I've started more paper ones
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc This. I feel this.
For me tho, I normally have a paperback that I get from a local Little Free Library AND a number of books on my phone/tablet/DataHaven (they sync).
I like to read before I go to bed, but I want everything shut down and all the lights off before I jump in bed ... so, device.
During the day at a cafe or on the bus or whatever I prefer paper. I can usually finish a paper novel in two or three days like this. Digital takes me longer because, well, sleepy time.
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@mcc Here in California there's some nice weather at the moment. Though we'll see how bad furnace-temperature heat spells and choking wildfire smoke are this season.
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I have come to very much like it when books have large print and also glow in the dark
@mcc hey that's not entirely fair. ebooks *also* glow in the *light*.
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I have come to very much like it when books have large print and also glow in the dark
@mcc haa I feel you, same here. Also I find myself expecting a search in regular books now, when I read something suspicious and need to go back to a specific part where there might have been foreshadowing to check if the theory in my brain still holds hehe.
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@mcc haa I feel you, same here. Also I find myself expecting a search in regular books now, when I read something suspicious and need to go back to a specific part where there might have been foreshadowing to check if the theory in my brain still holds hehe.
@stephaniewalter books have so many named characters. I have trouble remembering people's names in real life. I rely on "ok tell me if this name mentioned came up before" to a guilty degree.
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@stephaniewalter books have so many named characters. I have trouble remembering people's names in real life. I rely on "ok tell me if this name mentioned came up before" to a guilty degree.
@mcc haa same. I have the issue when a series is not finished and they take time between 2 books. My brain goes "who the hell are you again?!?". Especially fantaisy books. It doesn't help that I don't read the names. I don't know how to explain, but my brain recognizes the pattern, but I don't pronounce it in my head. So, unless I've read it in audio book (for which I also get the ebook just for the search), I actually don't know most character's names
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
At this stage of my life, I am also fond that every ebook can be a large print book
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@mcc haa same. I have the issue when a series is not finished and they take time between 2 books. My brain goes "who the hell are you again?!?". Especially fantaisy books. It doesn't help that I don't read the names. I don't know how to explain, but my brain recognizes the pattern, but I don't pronounce it in my head. So, unless I've read it in audio book (for which I also get the ebook just for the search), I actually don't know most character's names
@stephaniewalter @mcc It’s not just me! If I don’t know how to pronounce it, or even if it’s just not familiar, the name becomes “starts with J and is about 10 letters long” (plus some sort of shape element I can’t quite describe) and if there’s more than one like that, I’m sunk.
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
@mcc hope it's not a 700 page doorstop
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@anne_twain @mcc as an American, I know that what you call a torch is a flashlight for us. But I'm laughing that the picture of you holding a flaming stick under the bedclothes.
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After years of acclimating myself to ebooks I've been trying this last month to read a paper book for once, but I am having great difficulty completing it due to the problem that it does not glow in the dark
One possible solution
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One possible solution
Paper books have some advantages:
* they don't need recharging
* they work when the electricity supply fails (see parent toot)
* they don't suddenly vanish on the whim of Bezos or some other billionaire
* when you no longer need them you can donate them for a good cause -
@mcc haa I feel you, same here. Also I find myself expecting a search in regular books now, when I read something suspicious and need to go back to a specific part where there might have been foreshadowing to check if the theory in my brain still holds hehe.
@stephaniewalter @mcc Not to mention long press to look up or translate.
