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I tend to agree. My home is decorated with books, most of which are unnecessary, but many are repositories of memories that would have long ago been lost if not for the printed page. I do have an e-reader, the Nook by Barnes & Noble. As a steampunk writer, I tend to rely on a large selection of reference material, and find the Nook far more convenient to carry around than a briefcase. And by the way, Nook offers a lending program for sharing books among other Nook users.
Does the Nook lending program limit the amount of days a book can be lent out to someone? Amazon's Kindle books do and each publisher sets a different time frame. I'm not too happy about this aspect. It's the one thing I love about the printed book...I can hand it over to who ever I want to lend or give it to and they can take their time reading it.
Nook's loan period is 14 consecutive days. Also, not all books can be loaned. According to the on-board manual, those that can have a symbol on the cover. I only have a very few recreational reading books on my Nook, but I just took a look, and don't see any extra symbols on any of them. Of course, never having participated in a loan transaction, maybe I just don't know what to look for.
I tried to loan a title to my sister in-law and the loan period was 7 days and she just didn't have time to read it and read it that quickly. Plus, the rule with some titles is, if you lend it to a person once you can't re-loan it to them a second time. So again, print copy still has it's advantages...plus,I've been told that when I finish with a book and ship it to someone to read, that excitement of getting a package in the mail is just so much fun...and it not coming with a bill is even more awesome :O)
Off topic, sorry, but I would like to give a shout out to http://www.firstbook.org/ which is an organization that sells paper copies to disadvantaged children. This is a great reason to have paper books.
Not off topic in the slightest Stan. Very nice story. This is definitely another reason why paperback is still relevant and more appreciated.
Justin wrote: "Not off topic in the slightest Stan. Very nice story. This is definitely another reason why paperback is still relevant and more appreciated."Thanks, Justin. I hate to hijack a thread, but I hoped this would fit in.
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2014/03/the-...