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What do you guys collect these days?
E-book versions of books (be it bought or downloaded) or traditional hard copy books (bought from book stores or very cheap in libraries)?
Me, I do collect books on how to use software like "Learn so-and-so in XXX amount of days" or textbooks from bookstores that I bought in colleges and discount college bookstores. Even after graduation, I still keep them until I am in no shortage. Some of them are downloaded from sites too, so my collection is varied.
However, unless I see a reason to, and mostly I don't, I just buy fictional books like Shakespeare and famous authors. I like to keep these in my home library and read them. I have both the Bible and a pocket Koran. I'm not a religious guy, except I do believe in some things, but mostly I just read those for fun.
But am I a book pirate or a two-shoes author a supporter? Some say neither and some say both. You can judge what you want and act upon it.
I have a poll and you are encouraged to share what you are to this discussion.
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Ebook, though I have about 10,000 of the real thing.
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Hard copy, always. I've got several hundred ebooks and I've only ever read one of them. I don't like relying on electricity or batteries to read a book, and if I can't sit in the back garden with my feet up holding a proper book then I'm not interested. There's a lot to be said about hard copies. I collect fine books, some silk bound that come in a hard slipcase or a solander box, all non fiction, many of them from the folio society.
I don't care whether this raises chuckles but sometimes I like to take the books out of their boxes and sniff the paper, or rather the ink. I'm reading a multi volume greek history one at the moment and often find myself running my fingers over the intricate indents on the cover, pausing to admire the beautiful illustrations, and feeling the exquisite, thick paper/parchment. Reading them is a joy, and you just don't get that with ebooks, which are more of a chore to get through.
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Jun 05, 2020, 06:21 am
(This post was last modified: Jun 05, 2020, 06:23 am by dueda. Edited 1 time in total.
Edit Reason: On second tought, thats not accurate.
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As far I can remember, never read an e-book. Tried for a few minutes, a couple times, I guess; horrible experience.
"Oh, there were a few technical books I actually read, and some comics.
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Have a mixture of both, but been a while because of medical reasons etc. [ . . . ]
anyway, great subject... there is an advantage to hard cover book, you can hold it in your hand and read when you have no power... will be important one day.... can't do that with ebook lol... often i will print them if they not too large lol
much appreciated
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Fine bindings are objets d'art and shouldnt be manhandled. I have some rare books and would not dream of actually reading an 18th century First. I would grab the etext and read *that*!
However... especially as I rarely read fiction, I dislike paper texts because their indexes usually suck rocks. Noting beats a quick search on a PDF.
And... the simple fact that these days I need an extra pair of glasses on just to read paper texts!!
Power issue is important. Recommend 100W solar cell, battery and inverter.
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Oh I don't manhandle them waregim!
I turn the pages carefully with my delicate lady fingers, put the books straight back into their boxes after reading, regularly dust the boxes, and keep them stored in a closed bookshelf. I even sit in the shade when reading so the sun doesn't ruin the paper/ink.
I've got one rare first edition printed in the early 1800s about a military campaign and it's got hand written military strategy notes penned by the author himself, carefully attached to some of the pages, penned in arabic. I wore gloves when I read that one to protect it from being damaged! 
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Temp? Humidity?
A proper archive is 55F, 50%RH (IIRC)
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e-books.
for saving some trees.
but consequeces is using electricity, it is also not good is power source still using non-renewable natural resources.
more green?
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Love the Hard Copies but ebooks are widely available and free. So generally eBooks. Only for special writers, like for me Tolkien, hardcopies (Maybe the Illustrated and Leatherbound editions).
workerbee edited Sep 11, 2020 14:57 pm this post because:
I think you intended to post in this thread, which is more appropriate.
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