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I will be devastated if that ever happens. While I can read some books now, there are many I can't because my eyesight is failing. I don't have a Kindle yet, but I have looked at friends' and know I can use it. My eye doctor also says Kindles are a good idea for patients in my postiton.
I am budgeting in one in towards the end of the year.
You are very fortunate you can enjoy the printed page and will not be affected if electronic readers do become obsolete. I hope you are always be able to do this. If they become obsolete as you suggest, I and many other elderly people will no longer have that luxury.
I hope you know how lucky you are.
As someone who is slowly loosing their eyesight, yes, I do.
Your Kindle will become obsolete. Doesn't mean that you won't be able to read...something else will come along better that will replace it.
As someone who is slowly loosing their eyesight, yes, I do.
Your Kindle will become obsolete. Doesn't mean that you won't be able to read...something else will come along better that will replace it.
I am sorry you are going through this too. For me, there is just some print I cannot read at all any longer. That's why I put so much hope in Kindles.
But if they do go away I hope there will always be something we can use. I am not at the audio book stage and they are nice but certainly not as convenient as either books or Kindles.
I am sorry you are going through this too. For me, there is just some print I cannot read at all any longer. That's why I put so much hope in Kindles.
But if they do go away I hope there will always be something we can use. I am not at the audio book stage and they are nice but certainly not as convenient as either books or Kindles.
I'm in the bad eyes camp and my Kindle has been wonderful. There have been print books - like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, 800 pages of tiny type on fine flimsy paper - that I just couldn't read until I could control the type size.
The Kindle format will be obsolete in the future, much like the music format changes from albums to 8tracks to cassettes to CDs to a digital format made collecting music occasionally frustrating. But hopefully the shift will be over several decades, as was the shift in music formats. Will I end up having to repurchase books? In the long run, probably, much as I had to repurchase music to get the current format.
I'm not a fan of audiobooks, although I listen to them on long drives - I find the narrator gets in the way of the story for me. Sometimes it works, as in Stephen Fry narrating the first Harry Potter book. A lot of fun to listen to, as he is a perfect match for the material. I also don't have a multiple-day attention span and don't care for abridged books.
There should always be options between "real books" and kindles for those whose eyesight is still okay, and others whose eyesight is challenged.
We need every harmless pleasure possible to make life more tolerable, and reading is one of those simple pleasures that carry one through a boatload of life's twists and turns.
I still prefer actual books to e-books. I won a Kindle last year through a sweepstakes contest. At first I thought abut selling it but at the time, an out of state relative of mine was going through a health crisis and was hospitalized. I decided to a spend a week visiting with and other relatives. I usually take a book or two with me on trips. At the time I had been wanting to get into reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries since I'm fan of the show True Blood. I was browsing through Amazon and I saw that the 8 SVM books were available on the Kindle format for a little over $50. I decided to buy the Kindle set and when I was visiting and spending time at the hospital I really started to like using the Kindle.
As others have mentioned in this thread there are some pros to e-readers such as it eliminates space and is a quick way to get money. I only have about 20 books on Kindle. I still buy actual books because I still love the feel of them.
I don't like books or porn on a computer...or some other electronic device. Guess I'm just old fashioned that way....and I'm not saying that I don't like porn.
I am sorry you are going through this too. For me, there is just some print I cannot read at all any longer. That's why I put so much hope in Kindles.
But if they do go away I hope there will always be something we can use. I am not at the audio book stage and they are nice but certainly not as convenient as either books or Kindles.
Kindles won't go away, they will get better - they double as not only a reader, but some of the models actually serve as a audio readers so they read the book to you. I am comforted to know that even if I did lose my eyesight that I would still be able to enjoy books being read to me without having to learn braille.
Nook may go away though...B&N and Borders are having difficult times financially but Amazon still is ahead of the pack so I know that if any e-reader will survive, it will be theirs. For the record, I love regular books and Kindle books. I think I still spend just as much on regular books as I do Kindle versions. Amazon is by far my favorite store!
Kindles won't go away, they will get better - they double as not only a reader, but some of the models actually serve as a audio readers so they read the book to you. I am comforted to know that even if I did lose my eyesight that I would still be able to enjoy books being read to me without having to learn braille.
Nook may go away though...B&N and Borders are having difficult times financially but Amazon still is ahead of the pack so I know that if any e-reader will survive, it will be theirs. For the record, I love regular books and Kindle books. I think I still spend just as much on regular books as I do Kindle versions. Amazon is by far my favorite store!
Saddest thing I've read in some time. Without books and the knowledge they contain, many people are little more than animals.
If it wasn't for books, I'd actually believe the gummint.
Saddest thing I've read in some time. Without books and the knowledge they contain, many people are little more than animals.
If it wasn't for books, I'd actually believe the gummint.
Who said anything about being "without books"? The discussion is about the changes in the medium not the elimination of it.
I cannot wait until I can afford to buy a Kindle so I can adjust the type and read the books in a font my poor old eyes can see. Unfortunately, many of today's printed publications don't allow me to do that.
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It's a Kindle for me
The discussion is about the changes in the medium not the elimination of it.
