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Helps if you have decent bookstores around you. We've got decent used bookstores, but the new ones all suck.
As I got a kindle for christmas, I'm pretty much moving away from paper, so it's moot.
lessismore · 4713 days ago · link ·
The e-ink Kindles are something awesome. I absolutely love mine (library lending + Project Gutenberg ). The only downside of owning one is that I no longer visit the local bookstores (not that there are so many of them around anymore) which I used to enjoy so very much. The last time I visited a brick and mortar bookstore was to sell my book collection.
For sure. Its probably worse here in Det, because our population is so much less that LA. There is one really awesome specialty book store near my place that sells art book and graphic novels and the like, but besides that, there is basically B & N (which is sad, because Borders was a Michigan company many people here were proud of). The days of the large independent book store are certainly behind us, but even going into B & N and browsing has some appeal to me, just with the ambiance of being around so many books. I'll never give up entirely on Amazon, because so much of what I buy is stuff you could never find in any typical brick and mortar store.
My dad owns the last small edition commercial book bindery left in the entire midwest, so I've always had a special spot in my heart for books, partly because my family eating dinner depended on them growing up! (Here's some of his work. I'm biased, but I think its pretty awesome. http://bessenberg.com/products). I appreciate what the Kindle is and does, but I love books as a thing, not just as a conduit for information. Therefore, I hope they never get totally displaced.