Comments on: eBooks: Curiouser and Curiouser… http://writeabetternovel.net/ebooks-curiouser-and-curiouser/ Practical wisdom for novelists and other storytellers Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anne Willkomm http://writeabetternovel.net/ebooks-curiouser-and-curiouser/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Anne Willkomm Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:42:57 +0000 http://truevoice-blog.com/?p=81#comment-90 <p>I'm not a techno reader and whether in the future I will become one...well, that my friends remains to be seen. However, what Bill has described as Amazon's control: the monitoring, the disappearing library at the whim of a large corporation, smacks of George Orwell's 1984 and its Ministry of Truth.</p> <p>Personally, I love holding a book in my hand, the feel of the paper, are the edges rough or smooth, is the paper thick or thin, what does it look like under the dust jacket -- Oh, and yes...I prefer hardbacks!</p> <p>As I have stated before, I also love books on CD (although Books on Tape sounds better), especially if the main character(s) have a particular accent. Nonetheless, with either format, I have rights and I have control. As Bill quoted an early Jeff Bezos, I can sell it, loan it, give it away. Hell, I can sleep with it, travel with it, choose to never read it, read and re-read it, and I can put it upon a shelf and know that it's there waiting patiently.</p> <p>So I better not get a Kindle for Christmas. And if I do, I will reserve my right to return it!</p> I’m not a techno reader and whether in the future I will become one…well, that my friends remains to be seen. However, what Bill has described as Amazon’s control: the monitoring, the disappearing library at the whim of a large corporation, smacks of George Orwell’s 1984 and its Ministry of Truth.

Personally, I love holding a book in my hand, the feel of the paper, are the edges rough or smooth, is the paper thick or thin, what does it look like under the dust jacket — Oh, and yes…I prefer hardbacks!

As I have stated before, I also love books on CD (although Books on Tape sounds better), especially if the main character(s) have a particular accent. Nonetheless, with either format, I have rights and I have control. As Bill quoted an early Jeff Bezos, I can sell it, loan it, give it away. Hell, I can sleep with it, travel with it, choose to never read it, read and re-read it, and I can put it upon a shelf and know that it’s there waiting patiently.

So I better not get a Kindle for Christmas. And if I do, I will reserve my right to return it!

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