Bookpusher poll

[celticdragonfly]

So I was thinking about my usual bookpusher proclivities, and books vs. ebooks and such. Some books are easy to find in ebook but not hardcopy, or vice versa, and some there's a choice. I know I didn't get far on hooking fordprfct on Bujold, until I tried ebooks, and hey, that suddenly worked. For others, ebooks might be hopeless. So I'm curious as to my flist's opinions.

[Poll #998330]

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Have never read an ebook yet.

Books on tape I've listened to lots in the past. Just in case that counts in there somewhere. I got bookpushed Shards and Barrayar on tape and fell in love!

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Oh BOTHER, I forgot all about audiobooks. This is because they don't work for me. I wish they did - they sound so compatible with knitting. But I tried it once - checked out a tape of short stories by an author I already liked - and realized partway through that I wasn't following it at all, it wasn't keeping my attention. I'm SUCH a written-word person.

I've been reading a LOT more ebooks lately, since I've been spending time on recliner-bedrest with the pregnancy. (Although I'm mostly off that now) I've read whole series from Baen on the computer screen. I can't wait until the people working with Baen come up with the good ebook reader they're planning. Once I can carry entire series for less weight than one hardback, whee!

[toraks.livejournal.com]

I used to listen to audiobooks at work all the time, it was great when doing lab work for my PhD. Lots of stuff for the hands, none for the brain. So listening to books was wonderful. I loved it when I figured out I could do it. Got tons from the public library.

When I started here though, the sterile hood was too loud to hear anything over so I couldn't do it anymore. But somehow the earbuds on my Ipod do seem to work, so these days I've been downloading podcasts. Maybe it's just that you can crank the Ipod louder than a book on tape on a Walkman.

I've never liked reading on screen and don't have anything else to read an ebook on. Live journal and email, I'll read, but even long stuff there bothers me. Fanfic I do read sometimes, but very occasionally. I'll be thrilled when they develop a book with pages that change without having to turn them --- the letters reform on the page kind of thing and it's all digital. I remember hearing something about that sometime. It looks like a book, but just opens to two pages that you change as you read. Don't know if I'm explaining that right.

What's the ebook reader you mention? Is that something on a PDA?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

The ebook reader I mention is talked about here:
http://www.naebllc.com/index.html

Basically, a simple ebook reader that lets you carry around just about any format from whatever source you like, without the company trying to own you and make you buy all your ebooks from them. No DRM will be built into the software. Yay. I signed up on the "why YES I want one!" list.

The last email I got from them was that the suppliers were saying they should get the first sample models in May, not April. So hopefully maybe they even have something by now, although I'm sure they're going to run into all sorts of delays. I emailed them again, we'll see if there's any new news.

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Does look pretty cool. Maybe I'll get one someday. :-)

[jazz007.livejournal.com]

For me, it's hardcopy, paperback. I can't listen to books very well (no attention span to speak of) unless I'm driving on a long trip, when they're AWESOME, but I will carry a paperback anywhere, and read it any time I have five minutes with no brainwork to do - in line, in the restroom, in the waiting area, in a store where I'm bored, anywhere.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

I don't do audio books much at all. My Mum suggested them when I was nursing - I found that reading was difficult since I needed one hand for baby almost all of the time and frequently two. She also suggested adventure novels rather than romances. Said romances may be silly when read in hard copy, but the silliness gets multiplied when read out loud!!

[archangelbeth]

I don't have an ebook reader... So it's hard to take things in the car to read that aren't hardcopy. Most of my reading is online or waiting for the kid at the bus stop, these days. Or I'm writing it myself...