Never read a book in my life. But if I have to choose, books.
ebooks, they just seem more practical and for me personally there aren't any advantages to reading "real" books.
Personally i dislike ebooks and love real books, I've just given away/donated around 60 books (mostly childhood books about football, arsenal, goosebumps (brits will know) old enid blyton etc and i still have 180-200 left that i wont get rid of.
I can see the appeal of space saving and portability but i just don't get on with them, i take books to work and holiday and space didn't really hinder me. I don't see me getting e books anytime soon what about you guys?
I like books aswell, sadly I don`t have enough money to spare 10 or 15 euros to buy a new book, so I only can buy books when a bazaar happens or something similar.
Never read a book in my life.
Everytime you write something like that I want to donate a little money to you so you can buy books/food/shoes/internets. :(
Relax, I said that my economics are tight , not that I can`t eat :?
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Hey, that's not fair! You can't just turn from "QQ no money, send money, German money is best money" to "it's not THAT bad" and make me look bad :(
you`re right.
I haven`t eaten in days, I walk around with tattered shoes and ragged clothes, please gibe drachmas
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I love reading books end never got used to that e-shit, it hurts my eyes.
This explains so much.
I prefer reading encyclopedias (before internet I used to rent expensive ones from local book store) or researching a subject that interests me. I've read some novels but don't prefer them. I avoid poetry at any cost.
When I want to have some fun, I try to gain limited knowledge (basic idea) of a certain subject. I very much enjoy doing that. Reading something a semi educated person (known in our society as a writer or novelist) wrote on paper which don't consists of actual facts is waste of time imho.
But if I have to choose, novels I did like are anything from Jorge Luis Borges (I read everything that has been published), The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. However, I do feel shame because I haven't read anything written by Arthur C. Clarke.
I prefer reading encyclopedias (before internet I used to rent expensive ones from local book store) or researching a subject that interests me. I've read some novels but don't prefer them. I avoid poetry at any cost.
When I want to have some fun, I try to gain limited knowledge (basic idea) of a certain subject. I very much enjoy doing that. Reading something a semi educated person (known in our society as a writer or novelist) wrote on paper which don't consists of actual facts is waste of time imho.
But if I have to choose, novels I did like are anything from Jorge Luis Borges (I read everything that has been published), The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. However, I do feel shame because I haven't read anything written by Arthur C. Clarke.
what are facts, isn't it all subjective anyways?
Leshma, the whole life is a waste of time. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Not really. Let's say there's a person without any knowledge and he's thirsty and standing by the sea. Subjective fact (how you call it) would be if we say that salt water isn't dangerous for humans to drink. True fact is that salt water isn't healthy to drink. Fact has been proven in the past and that's why is called a fact.
In a way, yes. I just said my personal opinion. You may like it or not.
Reading something a semi educated person (known in our society as a writer or novelist) wrote on paper which don't consists of actual facts is waste of time imho.I wonder how you could call someone like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco) semi-educated.
and please don't say "I don't read ebooks because i prefer to smell paper and ink XDXDXD" cause that's retarded, mental illness.
How did you go from "I never read a book in my life" to "I only like certain types of books". Obviously you do read then. No one said anything about it having to be some fiction novel. That's not what the problem is with your initial, seemingly proudly illeterate statement.
There is also the allure of the history of the thing. If it is used, how old is it? Who might have owned it before I? Where was it published? How far has it perhaps traveled since then? Have any left their own marks and underlines behind within it? What trees fell to become the paper? How long did they live, how tall did they rise? More questions and wonderment come to mind, only some of which are translatable to the e-book format.
Would you like to borrow it?
I play games because of gameplay. watch TV only to hear news (prefer it over internet news portals). Listen to radio because it offers random choice of good music. Read books to learn something new and useful.
Watching movies, TV shows, reading novels, playing games with a good story and bad everything else, is something I rarely do.
Books about facts mean much more to me than popular literature.
I totally would, but I'm really, really bad about unborrowing books, especially ones that I have to go to the post office to send back.
Wow you must be so much fun to hang out with :lol:
Now that's an interesting topic. I'm trying my best to be boring as I can because that means ordinary people will avoid me. And that's exactly I want, because I don't like ordinary people.
In any case, talking about hot topics is something that hipsters do, real people do stuff together and when they are "hanging out", they usually talk about their past experiences. For some reason, neither I or my friends were very keen to chat about books we read or movies/shows we have seen.
Also, this thread should be Google (or Internet) vs Books. It's pretty obvious who wins and why.
Never read a book in my life. But if I have to choose, books.
Also, this thread should be Google (or Internet) vs Books. It's pretty obvious who wins and why.
Ever hear the saying "A person who reads lives a thousand lives a person who doesn't lives only one" so true.
Yeah, books.
Internet can emulate books (eBooks). eBook vs paper Book is the same concept but presented in different form. Although eBooks have certain advantages like faster browsing (thanks to implemented search function). But internet or using search engine to find data, process it and analyze it, is superior to reading books. Reading books is healthier for your eyes (if you use backlit screen) and feels more natural. But books take a lot of space.
Well, the difference is: On the internet, there is so much shit you would not believe it.In the depths of this moloch there are things that are not meant for human eyes, srsly, this shit psycho.
Also, much of the information on the internet is simply wrong.
Iam not saying there are no books with false information - indeed, there are a lot.But compared to shit on the internet, it´s nothing.If you buy a popular book regarding a specific topic, it will most likely be scientifically profound.
If you have a book that treats a certain topic, it does just that; It is bundled information on paper.
On the internet, you have to search through lots of shit to find what you want; And if you find it, it is, very often, not complete; Indeed, today many websites are only extracts from books.
The Internet is a very quick way to gather some rather superficial information about topics; You can become semi-knowing in a subject within a few hours if you want - which is a very good thing, really.The problem is, to become EXPERT, you will need more.There is a reason books are still used in schools and universitys, you know.
Also, it is still not entirely clear how the shift from autodidactical book-learning to the massive, compressed information feeding from the internet will affect future generations; It might be bad, but it might also be good.
In it´s current state, only a symbiosis of books and the internet brings real knowledge.The Internet, with it´s all-time contemporarity and the books with very specific and bundled knowledge.
We can speak again in a 100 years or maybe earlier - when every book on earth is freely and easily accessible in any language round the clock on the internet, and EVERY technological device is synched - including eBook readers and the like.
Never read a book in my life. But if I have to choose, books.
Well, internet is not just one book. It's the whole library. It's up to you to find the exact thing you need. Modern libraries are better organised but internet is still young, look at it like early form of library in some monastery with thousands of books all over the place.
Also, you can rent real books but stealing them is a lot harder than pirating content on internet. If you know where to look, you'll get much more out of internet for the same amount of money you would spend on real books or library membership.
Technological advances don't happen because some people are bored, they are result of evolution and evergrowing needs of humankind. I bet people looked strange at Gutenberg when he explained them advantages of using a printing press instead of writing books by hand. He probably went through lots of "we don't need it, old way is the best way". More recent case is Wikipedia. People still don't believe in Wikipedia like they should, they mostly point flaws and take good things for granted.
I bet people looked strange at Gutenberg when he explained them advantages of using a printing press instead of writing books by hand. He probably went through lots of "we don't need it, old way is the best way".