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

[distrowatch@mastodon.social]

@mcc My favourite thing about ebooks is the adjustable font size. There are pros and cons to paper vs ebooks, but I love being able to have a consistent font across all books.

[stigatle@activitypub.taildad4ee.ts.net]

I do not like to read books, i get super tired when ever I try, thought about getting a kindle or something like that, but never got to it.

[ids1024@mathstodon.xyz]

@mcc Paper books can be better for reading outside under a tree on a sunny day though.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ids1024 *staring out at Toronto False Spring weather*

"Outside"…

Yeah…

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@mcc Am I to understand that the bedside lamp has become extinct?

[colo_lee@mstdn.social]

@mcc or when I press on a word and its definition or translation doesn't show up ...

[hamonwry@mastodon.world]

@mcc

I constantly tap the right side of the page anticipating that it'll turn.

[bredroll@mas.to]

@mcc I have a large print hardback of The Hobbit. Reading it is pure luxury

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@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

[elfin@mstdn.social]

@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.

[ids1024@mathstodon.xyz]

@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.

[tantusar@mastodon.social]

@mcc hey that's not entirely fair. ebooks *also* glow in the *light*.

[stephaniewalter@front-end.social]

@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.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@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.

[stephaniewalter@front-end.social]

@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

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@mcc

At this stage of my life, I am also fond that every ebook can be a large print book

[annemacro@hachyderm.io]

@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.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@mcc hope it's not a 700 page doorstop

[bit101@mstdn.social]

@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.

[thelancashireman@hostux.social]

@mcc

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