@Background Pony #2229
 
the real problem with books is… not everyone can create them. printing presses are hugely expensive, especially for nice cloth bound books. so without computers, everything I wrote would never be read by anyone ever, just a growing mountain of loose papers that I can’t afford to have bound into a thousand copies, then shipped all across the country.
 
kindles are absolutely horrible, because they let the elite f*cks who own the printing presses illegitimately claim a monopoly on publishing. publishers want to stop doing any work, but make the same amount of money (all of it). they’re like carpenters who wave hammers in the air, while the house builds itself behind them, then claim they deserve to get paid for it, then try to stop you from paying five bucks for one of my easy-gro house seeds, saying only they are allowed to build houses.
 
comparing kindle e-readers to books, yeah books are better. but if you look beyond the douchebags running amazon.com, people can write letters to each other instantly, talk about their lives, find out about each other, and publish stories. they don’t have to get the support of someone with the millions it takes to publish a paper book, so now everyone gets to write things, rather than only the few with all the money getting to decide whose stuff we’re allowed to read.
 
I like books, but… there’s something amazing about fanfics.

@Background Pony #2229  
Precisely! This is why I have this:
 
https://imgbox.com/nyfA7vwg
 
rather than, for instance, a Kindle. xD Also makes my room look a bit classier, I feel. ;D

@Yet One More Idiot
 
And with digital you always have to deal with the issue of charging your devices. If you lose electricity for a long time for whatever reason, you can read those books all you want without worrying about that.

 
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@Yet One More Idiot  
To be honest reading much of anything these days is time consuming. Same with me writing a story (or trying to)

@Dust Rock  
I’m not actually sure that eBooks will EVER completely replace physical books - there’ll always be people (and pones) who will want to feel the book in their hands, enjoy the weight and the smell and the beautiful appearance of a quality-crafted leatherbound edition, things you just can’t get with an electronic soft copy.
 
Sure, physical books will probably attract increasing premiums to their prices to compensate for less people buying them…but I think they’ll always be there. Interestingly, the number of high quality volumes (such as leatherbound collectors editions and such) hasn’t really fallen much since the introduction of eBooks. What has decreased is the sales of cheap mass-market paperbacks, that’s where the eBooks are really competing against physical media.
 
:)

:-(

When iBooks officially replace real books

Poor Twiley…I need to take her somewhere warm and out of the rain, dry her off gently in a pile of big fluffy towels, and then hug her until her tears go away. u.u