Previous Next
Do you prefer to read your books on Kindle, iPad or hardback form?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on July 27, 2010
“Hardback, I don’t have a Kindle or an iPad.”
“Hardback, it’s cheaper.”
“I prefer to read them on hardback … my eyes tend to hurt focusing on different resolutions on screens.”
“Hardback, because the others are too technical for me.”
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 33 comments
- Opinion: Obama shares strong message May 24, 2013 · 10 comments
- On the street: Should residents or businesses who use too much water be fined? May 24, 2013 · 3 comments
- Long-term plan suggests toll lanes on K-10 corridor May 23, 2013 · 30 comments
- 59 minors, several local businesses, cited for alcohol violations in state regulator's patrols in May May 23, 2013 · 12 comments
- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 20 comments
- Chase near Tonganoxie ends with one man taken into custody May 22, 2013 · 4 comments
- Blog: Brownback signs 'Celebrate Freedom Week' bill May 23, 2013 · 5 comments
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013 · 4 comments
- Editorial: Development shift? May 24, 2013 · 4 comments
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013
- Wildflower Walk set for Saturday May 24, 2013
- Editorial: Development shift? May 24, 2013
- CEO Gene Meyer honored for leading Lawrence Memorial Hospital to success May 23, 2013
- 100 years ago: 'The vulturous Kaw triumped' over Billie Bob Atkinson May 23, 2013
- Opinion: Obama shares strong message May 24, 2013
- Theatre Lawrence warns customers of credit card information stolen in cyber attack May 23, 2013
- Old Glory shines on west campus June 18, 2003
- 40 years ago: Liquor-by-the-drink banned on trains passing through Kansas May 17, 2013
Comments
Napoleon_Dynomite 2 years, 10 months ago
Books? We don't read books; we have TV!
Did_I_say_that 2 years, 10 months ago
MP3 or WMA audio books; otherwise, old school printed books. Hardback or paper back is okay.
vertigo 2 years, 10 months ago
This On The Street makes me sad because I can't read nor write.
jonas_opines 2 years, 10 months ago
Once I have a platform for it, I think I'll enjoy digital. I hardly ever printed out any of my pdfs for school the last few years, just read them on my laptop. (probably would have cost me several hundred dollars all told to print all of them) A guy on the plane next to me heading to Beijing this summer had an iPad, and it looked pretty neat, and pretty easy to read.
Jack: You have to turn the pages on an iPad. heeheehee
Anyway, think it's more a weight and portability issue than otherwise. You can carry like 500 different books with you in one single backpack.
trinity 2 years, 10 months ago
hardback. opening an old musty library book and getting lost in its pages is a pleasure that can't be equaled by the digital crap. or opening a brand new book that nobody has read yet until you scored it...ah.
grammaddy 2 years, 10 months ago
Hardback (or paperback) I don't own an ipad or kindle. version. And some authors, I prefer to collect first printing.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago
Print. I have been using the same ticket stub as a bookmark for almost 30 years.
Styx, June 13th, 1981. Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines $9.00
RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago
Louis L'Amour paperbacks I find left in the old out house. Usually have about half the pages ripped out of them. Ya just can't find readin' (or paper) like that anymore . . .
TMI?
George_Braziller 2 years, 10 months ago
Louis L'Amour paperbacks. What a memory flash-back trigger. My grandfather always had a pile of them on the right side of his chair. When he finished one he put it on the left side of the chair and then pick up another one from the pile on the right.
He had to have read them all at least three or four times.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 10 months ago
I know what you are thinking... Styx? But I learned some hard lessons that night.
What is promised is rarely delivered...
/girls lie //cynical
CWGOKU 2 years, 10 months ago
Hardback, reading in bed, late at night when everyone is asleep and the house is quiet. Maybe a late night snack too.
Aileen Dingus 2 years, 10 months ago
Kindles aren't backlit... they're very similar to an Etch-e-Sketch (sp?) really.
I have a Kindle and love it. I was able to take 30+ books on vacation in the space of 1 paperback. I can also get "classics" (Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare, Jack London etc.) for free.
That said, I should probably buy stock in Half Price Books and the Dusty Bookshelf. I can ALWAYS find something to read there. :) They love to see me coming through the door. ;)
whats_going_on 2 years, 10 months ago
I like the ipad ibooks thing, but the books are so expensive...
RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago
Your palm
Boston_Corbett 2 years, 10 months ago
Silly Roe. If I recall, it is you who gets a little handsie when I'm around.
Literature? I get mine the way all patriots do. Through FOX.
RoeDapple 2 years, 10 months ago
oops! slip up there BC?
somedude20 2 years, 10 months ago
go someplace out of Lawrence and ask this question. "What they hell you mean an e-lec-tronic bouk? Hell boy, I cant even read that there nekad pictures in dem nudie ma-go-zeens"
"now who whats to give ole Hank some car-o-mels Hanks still gots some teeths left and loves the sugar"
Hank Wilber Jenkins, Holton Kansas Grandwizard of Holton Chapter
K_Verses_The_World 2 years, 10 months ago
Your sister sees the future Like your mama and yourself You’ve never learned to read or write There’s no books upon your shelf
ms_canada 2 years, 10 months ago
My kids worry about me. They say I am addicted to reading and maybe they are right. I do read 65 to 70 books a year. And I am not talking about skinny little paper back romances. I like anything to do with history with crime novels my favourite. And I find lots of books that combine history with crime. Has anyone out there read Sweetness In The Belly by Camilla Gibb. Great book. Takes place in Ethiopia. Recently read a book that was written by 6 different authors. Each author wrote one chapter of the story. Very unique type of book. I enjoyed it. I don't think I would ever read an electronic book. I like the feel of the book in my hands.
beatrice 2 years, 10 months ago
I prefer to read books on my sofa, although sometimes while in bed.
Commenting has been disabled for this item.