[78-L] Bye Bye, Borders

Sat Feb 19 00:21:47 PST 2011

I doubt Amazon will make the Victorian sensation fiction, early detective novels, offbeat British humour, and exhaustive critical biographies I read available on Kindle within my lifetime. Those don't pay. The biography of Rupert Gould (who restored the Harrison sea clocks and marine chronometers) is available on Kindle, astonishingly, or as hard copy --over $60 either way.  If I'm going to spend that kind of cash for a book, I want to have a _real_ one.  Also, what if I want to lend it?  And the battery on my Kindle always seemed weak -- and on the long flights I take (and the one time I used the Kindle) it's hard to find anywhere to charge.  Analog, like with a real book, you can use it anywhere; digital, it either works or it completely doesn't.
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Ron L'Herault [lherault at bu.edu]
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Amazon keeps a copy of any book you buy in your account with them so you can
always download it again.  I find it quite nice to carry a light item with
me, to read a book (currently Mark Twain's autobiography), play a word game
(downloaded for free) or listen to music stored as MP3s.  True, you have to
pay attention to the battery but you have to do that with a cell phone or a
laptop too.   And the Kindle's fonts can be made larger, a great thing for
tired eyes.  If you can't find what you want on Kindle, then request through
Amazon that the publisher make it available for Kindle.  It's to their
advantage to sell more books.  I can't speak to the price problem.  Books
I've read selling for $29 or so, I've gotten for about $10 on Kindle, except
for "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". It, like many of the classics
are free.

Ron L

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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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[78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Bill McClung
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:11 AM
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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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