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Re:Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read by forrestthewoods on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:37PM (#3409380)
I hate reading novels in paper form. Each of the books in the Game of Thrones series is 1000 pages long. Holding a super fat book in your hands is not pleasant. You have to break the spine to keep it from closin. You need to physically rotate the book as you move from the left to the right page. It's heavy and cumbersome. Urgh.

Reading on a tablet type device meanwhile is a dream. Thin, lightweight. I hold the device the same for every page at both the start and end of the book. I can comfortably hold it with one hand even.

Being able to look up definitions is wonderfully useful. If you're on an ipad a quick internet search can be incredibly useful. I just read a Clash of Kings (sequel to Game of Thrones). I regularly looked up characters to refresh my memory on what they did or what they looked like (from the TV series).

When it comes to novels I would be quite happy to never hold a dead tree again. I much prefer burning dead dinosaurs.

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Re:Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read by gte910h on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:47PM (#3409420)
The last books of Wheel of Time made me feel exactly the same way (released in Hardback a month before ebook).

I actually prefer the iPhone4 to the kindle for long reading sessions as it's even lighter.

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Re:Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read by forrestthewoods on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:55PM (#3409460)
Yep, lots of great devices for reading novels which are each great in different situations. What I haven't found yet is a good replacement for text books or academic resources. The readers are great for sequential reading but not so good for anything that requires for chaotically flipping back and forth across hundreds of pages.
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Re:Amazon Has Drastically Changed the Way I Read by gte910h on Friday December 30, 2011 @06:02PM (#3409486)
I used the iPad + Goodreader + pdf version of the books. Works quite well. Also does bookmarks
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