One of my reservations with trying an e-reader was thinking that all the buttons and settings and features would be distracting, and I'm just saying that I found they weren't at all distracting on the Kindle.
Okay. I understand now.
Considering my love for travel and my very dusty, triple-stacked shelves though, I'm glad to now have an e-reader option.
A concern I haven't seen addressed, but one that keeps coming back to me, is the permanence of eBooks. The companies are racing through gens so quickly, how long before, due to an absence of backward compatibility (as we've seen with rather expensive video games) will render that electronic library inaccessible? I've read from centuries-old books; it's hard to imagine anyone will ever read from even decades-old ebooks.
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Re: I'm late to the table on this, but...
Date: 2010-09-24 07:27 pm (UTC)One of my reservations with trying an e-reader was thinking that all the buttons and settings and features would be distracting, and I'm just saying that I found they weren't at all distracting on the Kindle.
Okay. I understand now.
Considering my love for travel and my very dusty, triple-stacked shelves though, I'm glad to now have an e-reader option.
A concern I haven't seen addressed, but one that keeps coming back to me, is the permanence of eBooks. The companies are racing through gens so quickly, how long before, due to an absence of backward compatibility (as we've seen with rather expensive video games) will render that electronic library inaccessible? I've read from centuries-old books; it's hard to imagine anyone will ever read from even decades-old ebooks.