Paper books, E-books and Big Brother.
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I didn't realise the kindle could have it's books pulled so easily. I would never buy one for this reason alone.
I have my archos 504, several years old now, and it reads PDF's without difficulty including diagrams, infact a lot of the survival books available world wide are on there, the majority of them are scanned images.
Now things like fox fire? series of 12 where first six are available all over, take ages to load up but they still work.
It's major down fall is battery power by comparison, the kindle will last much longer, I can read only 250 pages or so on a full charge of the archos. But in the case of the last 40 books I have been reading since june, that means a book a charge/day if you read like I do.
I know people frown on the torrent system cause of legality, but the fact is for the conspirsist in you it's a perfect compromise.
Demographic, I know what you mean about it defeating the purpose, but I also disagree at the same time. If you take the time to prepare your prints, bind them and pattern them, they do a well job of creating both visually appealing and fully functional. for example, printing out lord of the rings in A5 with small but olde english style fonts looks great bound in leather, or the book of five rings in a japanese calligraphy influenced font.
Another advantage to the E books are that you can store a very large amount of very usefull information in a small area.
Don't get me wrong I love books, and would happily spend thousands on them but fact is, I can travel with an entire series of books to read like say on holiday without worrying about weight issues.
I think I have shared more than enough of my opinion on this now.
I have my archos 504, several years old now, and it reads PDF's without difficulty including diagrams, infact a lot of the survival books available world wide are on there, the majority of them are scanned images.
Now things like fox fire? series of 12 where first six are available all over, take ages to load up but they still work.
It's major down fall is battery power by comparison, the kindle will last much longer, I can read only 250 pages or so on a full charge of the archos. But in the case of the last 40 books I have been reading since june, that means a book a charge/day if you read like I do.
I know people frown on the torrent system cause of legality, but the fact is for the conspirsist in you it's a perfect compromise.
Demographic, I know what you mean about it defeating the purpose, but I also disagree at the same time. If you take the time to prepare your prints, bind them and pattern them, they do a well job of creating both visually appealing and fully functional. for example, printing out lord of the rings in A5 with small but olde english style fonts looks great bound in leather, or the book of five rings in a japanese calligraphy influenced font.
Another advantage to the E books are that you can store a very large amount of very usefull information in a small area.
Don't get me wrong I love books, and would happily spend thousands on them but fact is, I can travel with an entire series of books to read like say on holiday without worrying about weight issues.
I think I have shared more than enough of my opinion on this now.
Perhaps you might like Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" or Lucy Irvine's "Castaway". Ooops, not really oldies, or about traveling in the woods, but good books for sure.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9H...vZ3uDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
http://www.lucyirvine.com/faq.htm
Said this in another thread, but I'll say it again...
To save on weight, the iTouch/Iphone app Stanza is great for hundreds of free books.
To save on weight, the iTouch/Iphone app Stanza is great for hundreds of free books.
I'd avoid owning an iPhone for much the same reasons as I wouldn't have a Kindle, it is a very nice bit of gear though.
Just bought myself a Sony Reader PRS-505 from Play.com. 
It can struggle with displaying complex PDFs but for reading novels it is great.
Just loading it up with books now.
If you have one of these type devices then check out Calibre, an Open Source application for managing and converting your ebooks.
Stu
It can struggle with displaying complex PDFs but for reading novels it is great.
Just loading it up with books now.
If you have one of these type devices then check out Calibre, an Open Source application for managing and converting your ebooks.
Stu
