Do you prefer paper or a machine?

I like e books and electronic book but I do not ever want to not have paper books. For the simple fact that till there is good back up of books you have or buy, they can be lost alot easier than paper or hard back books can.

In this round of such gadgets on the market,Sony may have been first..A few years ago,I own(ed) one of the Original Franklin eBooknan devices,a PDA type ebook reader.When it worked,it was great,but some units (including mine) were flawed by a battery problem which when they ran out,it wasn't possible to change them out without losing the content stored in memory,so with a battery life of only a few days,less when using the built in backlight,the portability of the device was an issue..some of these with the fix are still available..The great thing about ebook readers is,if you love reading,and you travel,you have the ability to bring a library worth of books wherever you go,and depending on the ebook format used are readily available online (and even free!) Good though the kindle is,for Me it's a bit expensive yet-I'll stick with the free reader and downloads I can get on my cellphone for now...

I prefer books that are on the computer because then the computer can read them to me. If the Kindle would read to me, I would buy it.

I have a kindle, which was purchased as my sight is bad. It reads to me when my eyes are tired, so I can complete an entire book easily. I do read hardcovers and a few paperback with a magnifying sheet.

I've heard of Amazon Kindle and was quite surprised to see that it is getting lots of fans too. Reading electronically like that is rather new to me, but if you are saying like anywhere at all on the net, I like it that way. It's been awhile since I've read a book and I've been reading blogs, articles and basically any information that I managed to get while surfing the net. I like diverse knowledge like that, right up to certain specifics which I'm looking for. An E-book sounds cool and I might check out Sony soon..

I prefer paper mostly because I like the feel. The E stuff is available everywhere, but my eyes fail me. I want to read for a longer time.

I find that if I try to read a whole book on a computer; I end up with tired eyes and a headache. I've never read one on a smaller machine. I'm imagining that it would be even more straining. I love to read. There is nothing more relaxing than taking your favorite book into a nice hot bubble bath and getting to read in peace and quiet for a bit. I'd definatly take a paper book over a machine anyday.

I tried the book machines, but I just didn't care for them. The one I tried was on my iPod. I enjoy having a "real" book to touch and carry. My eyes hurt too much when I was reading on my iPod. I did like that I could carry a book with me in such a small form, but the novelty of that wore off after awhile. Also, it is really hard to find free book content on the machines. I read like crazy, and I am a cheapskate. I generally buy my books at garage sales for $.25, so that is another benefit to the paper books.

I like papaer more than machine. But sometimes you know my country doesnt have such papper book up-to-date in the store. So i decided to read E-book instead. Feel free to drop by at my free games site: www.game4pal.com

Each of them have their own pros and cons. I'm not a big fan at reading text book, but I like reading manga (japanese comic) very much. I actually prefer reading manga paper books, but I rarely read them now, I read them online because they are updated much faster than the paper books.

I think each of them has their special functions and can not substitute each other.

I prefer paper reading.Reading habit is a god one but reading in electronic format is so much hard.

I think both have their own advantages, but I prefer e-book more. I can store as much as I can without spending any space. I can download free ebook on the internet. I can search throught the ebook to find specific information. It can be carried out easily. It won't be broken or being old. I can do backup to avoid other problems. It can be shared with different friends. More and more.

for fiction or entertainment books definitely paper, but instruction manuals are much better on your pc

I definetely prefer having paper books, i like the sensation of turning the pages, feeling the paper, putting it back on the shelf, ebooks are too cold, and fruthermore i think they are much less durable, i have books that have more the 100 years in my house and sometimes i read them, digital books are likely to be lost in some hard drive failure, and we never have full control over them, it is recent news that amazon had to delete some orwell's book because they didn't had the copyright to sell it in the first place, so some people one day found the book canceled from their device and the money refunded. In this case this is not a huge problem, it was just a copyright problem of amazon, but the thing is that it is not a good thing that they have all this power. Who knows if someday when a book is considered against some powerful entity, they will simply delete it and no one can recover it. Paper books surely cost a little bit more, but they are definetely worth it, and even if we don't want to pay the extra public libraries are always free!

You ask this and I can't help but think of Fahrenheit 451, even more so after I saw the first response. As for the question itself. I haven't used one of the devices, though I've seen what they can do, but I don't have much of a desire to have one and especially not with the price as high as it is. I have a laptop that I can use like that and I also have the option to write, I need the ability to do both really. When I pack to go some where it's always at least two books and two notebooks and if it's a long trip it's the two books and the laptop, which gives me more books, plus my documents. Which I think leads me to another reason why I don't want an eReader, I'm not certain if you can back up all your books, I'd be extremely distraught if something happened to all my books. I already learned the lesson of having something like five backups for my electronic documents. The price of the ebooks is another thing as well. I haunt Half-Price bookstores, and their clearance section, so paying that much for each book would be very painful.