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You're not alone. I love books. They never need to be charged, their type face is of exceedingly high quality (devices are getting better), and the boot time is excellent (open it). As a kid, I would ride my bike down to the main library in our town and just walk the book stacks.
I plead guilty to being a "pops".
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My dad was working with the Ministry of Interior - and that meant a lot of privileges in the communist Hungary...One of them was free passage in a special library with hundreds of thousands of books banned from the open libraries...
I was spending half of my summer vacation in that library...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So, what "banned" material have you been reading?
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Hemingway
Orwell
The hungarian laws against jews in WWII (not really a book, but interesting)
A lot of biography written in the pre-communist are by people disappeared later...
A lot of pulp/fiction written between the two world wars...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It give a special feeling .. kind of privileged one when you have access to something which other don't have 
I can understand problem with Orwell but not sure why anyone would prohibit Hemingway's books
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Hemingway criticised the way the soviet communists done things...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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(By the way I DO read e-books...about technical stuff, but books for entertainment, novels and like, I read in paper format...and I take them from the local library)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I know what you mean - but...it means I can carry hundreds of novels with me at all times (the tablet fits in the pocket of my coat, which most novels don't)
You can search an ebook, copy'n'paste a quote or a word to Google for an explanation.
Set bookmarks without bending the corners of the page!
And my library lends ebooks! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: bending the corners of the page
Just reading that and I feel the chill on my back - will the librarian catch me?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Think of it this way: an average Harry Potter book weighs 750g: my tablet weighs 350g
The DVD weighs 16.5g.
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And the player weighs what?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We're going to read/watch Harry Potter 
I assumed the Bus was taking us to the dump.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Does it mean that I'm too old?
No you're not.
At work I prefer e-books, since I never read them cover-to-cover. I want them indexed and searchable.
At home I prefer real, paper books. I read to relax. Since I spend most of my day staring at a screen, the last thing I want to do when winding down for the day is to stare at another one.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nope you are not alone. i also read real book for novels, news paper. i moved to 6 or 7 different cities for either study or job purpose in last 10 years and whenever i settled down in a new city my first task is to find a local library and get a membership there.
Ravi Khoda
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Yes, you are very alone, you damn tree killer!!! 
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No you are not alone. My ride to work by train takes about an hour one way every day. I have been reading a continuous science fiction series which has been published once a week since 1961 and now I have every one of the 2813 issues with 65 pages each. That's enough to read in the train for a while, but unfortunately it's also a few boxes full of paper. Thank god, I'm not much of a collector otherwise.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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i am so lonley who will hug me
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Aw....there, there...
But no hugs though: the cat wouldn't understand.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes. 
No, you are not alone. 'The Wife', for instance, reads many paper books.
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No, you are not alone.
I find that ebooks are convenient for travelling, but at home - will often read a paper book. I also find reading paper technical references to be more convenient - it's much easier to have a few paper books open on my desk than a few e-books open on the screen.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Well - I prefer you consider it with the following analogy: {click}
So - not living your life through you hand-held device can be likened to considering the above referenced item as a bit too modern for you, too.
Also, check out http://news.yahoo.com/comics/dilbert-slideshow/[^] for July 18 and 20.
Don't you feel not only better about your self but actually relieved?
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I don't know, I though it was me! I have found when I tried to read e-books (phone,tablet) I could get to sleep, paper put me under! Also paper copies you can give to people easier also come society's collapse they will be a useful go to.
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Yes, that is an amazing advertisement!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Last time I visited Palo Alto CA (ex client and mom live there) I was waiting to meet someone at the train station and, like you, I was the only one reading a real paper book. Everyone else was immersed in glowy screens. The Borg are coming!
Marc
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