Not sure if my brain is just wired oddly but I feel like I can't remember anything I read when I read a book on a Kindle or tablet
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Plus page search time is so high. Give me a book I read 6 years ago and I can still get to where I want to go by something faster than bisecting search
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*raises hand* it's something about turning the pages, scribbling on the margins, the "wear and tear" feel in your hands, or the fact that i remember where a specific quote/sentence lives in the book
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My marginalia seems much more durable in physical form than digial...
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Same. Can't read on a Kindle or whatever.
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Kindle: nope. Papers on my remarkable tablet but I enjoy it less. I want my dead trees.
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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) Patti Smith
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I'm old enough to have grown up on hard copies, but also old enough to have moved my entire book collection more than a dozen times. These days, it's electronic versions for skimming, library books for reading.
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Yep, this.
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nothing like turning those pages
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