NP--On the Waiting List--Cyclops

[Albert Rolls]

It's cool. Just articulating personal objections. I did try a PC Kindle for some early American e-books but ended up getting the Google PDFs and printing chapters as I went along. Books are expensive, especially when tastes and interests lead to the obscure. But Kindle on PC is a whole different reading experience, I'm sure. It is, of course, troubling when books fall apart from use, and that makes rereading a book that was interesting enough to want to read again but not interesting enough to want to buy a new copy very difficult. And the Kindle, in its defense, does offer reference book writers, of which I am guilty, another, but so-far small, source of income, making a 2,500-book printing potentially infinite. But even that could be problematic because it can prove a disappointment to the unwary book buyer who expects more from a book than a long encyclopedia article. I don't know; people should enjoy the world as they see fit.

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 7, 2011 5:54 PM
>To: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
>Cc: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP--On the Waiting List--Cyclops
>
>I like to read.  I treat my books badly.  When I'm done with them they
>look quite sad.  Once in a while I'll re-read a book I own, but
>usually years after the first time, and they take up so much space!  I
>suppose if I fell in love w/ a Kindle book, I could always buy the
>hard copy, and I guess gift books will still be the paper kind...
>
>On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> A real curmudgeon.
>>
>> I like books and don't want to just pay for the rights to read a text in a digital format.