You know, books, the paper kind...with paper pages and all...
I used to spend real money on them! I don't know what year I bought this, but its been a while.
You did get your money's worth because they didn't scrimp on quantity. You knew if it was a good book, you would be able to enjoy many a hour curled up with it.
Hence one can tell a favorite book by how dog-eared the pages became over time.
Or how many hours were spent reading it while soaking in the bathtub.
Sometimes, I miss books.
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Heh... whaddaya mean "used to?"
I still buy and read books, on a regular basis... funny thing is, we had a Kindle and my wife has an iPad, but we pretty much never use them for reading anything longer than a few pages. But yeah, I do miss the days of spending hours at bookstores... still have a couple of nice antiquarian ones here in our small town where I go from time to time.
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me too, still in love with every single page of my books.
ebooks are practical but real books have something special like vinyl records
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See I cam from the vinyl era. Us kids then couldn't wait for CDs...now everyone wants to go back to vinyl lol.
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Me too. It's sad though, that some books can't be bought as real books anymore. Some books can't be bought at all.
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Yep I know many authors are going the self publishing route so its only available for digital download.
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Fair enough and a good point! You are 100% right, they still sell them. I might need to treat myself to some!
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NOTHING LIKE TURNING PAGES
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Oh yeah! That's a nice stash! I should have said books LOOK good too. On a shelf, just waiting for you. Too cool man!
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Ahh the old reading books in the bathtub days. I remember them well. I'm afraid to take my iPad in there!
All the best from one old guy to another!
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
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Exactly! Not only for the potential expensive loss of said iPad, but I'm from the days of seeing on TV the old "throw a toaster in the tub to get rid of someone" LOL! Don't think that would be the case with an iPad, but hey I'm not willing to risk testing it lol.
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I am still a fan of paper books. They can take a lot more abuse. And some of them seem like old friends. I can't say that about any e-books, lol. Happy reading!
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Agreed, they are like old friends!
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I love books. There are some old books that I like to collect, usually ones that have some connection to me or my family. Have I read all of these? Surely not! But they do look great sitting there ;) I've been meaning to downsize and donate stuff I don't care for anymore.
A long time ago (the payout is long gone, so this isn't about that) I wrote about the Timeliness Of Books, which you might like.
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I just read your link. I thought I would comment there, but apparently its not possible after some point in time? I have only been active here a few days, so I am still learning.
I agree that what makes a book good is it means you where you are at a specific time. I prefer to read bibliographies of people I admire, never was a big fan of fiction.
Oh and BTW my mom passed from Alzheimer's. Its is very sad.
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Yes there's a cut off for interactions on older posts, very foolish. It creates a very ephemeral culture to a permanent blockchain.
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For sure. I do a lot on YouTube and have videos that are 5 YEARS old that people still watch and comment on regularly. In addition, YT still runs ads against those vids and they are paying me legacy dividends. Do you think its a simple preference or is it difficult for some technical reason?
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I'm not really sure why they don't allow interaction on older posts, seems weird not to.
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Great looking stash!! I love those strong shelves. I bought some cheap ones, thinking they were going to be temporary in nature and of course I still have them and every shelf is bowed and looks like it may give way at any second lol!
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