a particular memoir that i had heard was good
by the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
I dont remember how it all happened
but i ended up looking around online for
"Scar Tissue" by Anthony Keidis
when i ran across a free ebook.
now this wasnt just any ebook...
it was more a scanned in copy
of all the pages of the book
and then made into a PDF.
i knew that the copy was rather sketch
but it wasnt until half way through
that i realized what was going on.
because it was a scanned in copy
not all of the letters came across correctly
as you can see here:
funny thing is that
the entire book i though that he
was calling drugs "elope"
and it wasnt until i was actually done
that i realized "dope" was transcribed into "elope"
despite all of these other factors
i had been given an opportunity to borrow
a tablet from my work as a demo
and thought this would be a great way
for me to read my "ebook"
and not have to tote around my laptop.
what i am getting at here is that,
while i had read ebooks in the past on a computer,
the difference in actually having a tablet to read on
made all the difference
in fact when i finished "Scar Tissue" i was disappointed
that i could not find another free book that i wanted
to actually read and was interested in
this brings me to my personal thoughts
about ebooks vs print books
first,
i dont think that ebooks will be a "big"
thing until everyone owns an ereader
however, i was surprised at how many of
the local youth that live around me own
kindles and got them for christmas
but second
even if everyone does buy ereaders,
i think there needs to be some sort of
"netflix" for ebooks. or better pricing
on individual books.
because in my mind, i would rather buy
the actual book for $10 than have a digital copy
which brings me to this article posted in the
Denver Post entitled "The New Way We Read"
he makes several points of how ereaders
have completely replaced that of the hard copy book
and how they do a good and better job
but the last point made is one that makes me so sad:
"PRINT BOOKS:Collecting rare books, including first editions and antiquarian books.This makes me so sad! but it raises
DIGITAL BOOKS:There's no equivalent so far. Hermitage owner Bob Topp says he sees quite a few new customers who've become fans of an author after reading several digital books.
"It's a whole new group of people discovering a new world of older books, a dimension they never knew about," he says.
"They come into our store, and the look in their eyes is 'Book! I just gotta touch a book!' They've read the e-book on the plane, but now they want a book they can hold in their hand."
a very interesting point which he states in the opening paragraph:
"E-books have increased the purchase of print books"
which is interesting and i think proves
that ebooks and technology can never
completely replace the actual product
because we depend so much upon the human experience
this makes me want to go out an buy all of my
favorite books in hard copy
because i also have a feeling that
print books are going to go up
in price more and more as the ebook
becomes more popular.
and print books become
more and more rare
just something to think about.
but perhaps i am wrong?
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