[78-L] Bye Bye, Borders

[Philip Carli]

How can you riffle through a e-book?  My mother gave me a Kindle 2 years ago, and a) the prices for the books I'm interested in are the same in e-format or hard copy, which seems pointless since I'd rather pay pay $20+ for a tangible thing than a digital ghost that can corrupt itself unannounced,  b) Kindle VERY rarely has the books I want, especially scholarly texts, c) once your power's down and empty, out of luck.  I take my computer for work when I travel and regular books to read.  I almost never use the Kindle -- haven't at all in over a year.  It will always seem a gimmick for the lazy to me.
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Bill McClung [bmcclung78 at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Bye Bye, Borders

He said he liked holding the records in his hands much more than doing
downloads.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And, yet, I was in a Half-Price Books in Oklahoma City this week and struck
> up a conversation with a twenty-something clerk at the register.  He had
> just started collecting LPs and I asked him why.  He said he liked holding
> the records
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Thatcher Graham <thatcher at mediaguide.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Supposing I'm not hit by a truck and estimating based on the general
>> family longevity... I've got at least another 50 years or so. I dont'
>> feel particularly threatened by the radical Islamic... I'm more likely
>> to be struck my lightning... or crushed under a toppled stack of 78s.
>>
>> ... the current ebook readers can hold thousands of books and cost just
>> a couple hundred dollars. My entire library would fit on a Kindle. My
>> interns don't even own CDs. The idea is foreign and perhaps
>> uncomfortable to me but physical media could become a novelty within the
>> next generation.
>>
>> --
>> Thatcher Graham
>> Mediaguide
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/17/2011 11:33 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> > From: "Thatcher Graham"<thatcher at mediaguide.com>
>> >> I expect that in my lifetime printed books will go the way 78s did in
>> my
>> >> fathers. Physical media isn't dead yet, but give it a couple decades.
>> >>
>> > Depends...how old are you and how many more years can we expect you to
>> live?
>> > Also, consider the possibility that our dependence on computers (into
>> which we
>> > have to physically "type" data) will probably evolve into we know not
>> what in
>> > another few years; OTOH, radical Islamists may well destroy our physical
>> world?!
>> >
>> > Steven C. Barr
>> >
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