Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 13:38:04 GMT 8
Reading, as I always say, is personal: and by this I mean that over time, or rather with the quantity of books read, readers personalize their reading, that is, they take on their own modus legendi . With these considerations of mine I talk about how I read, what I read, what I expect from a book and why I read in a certain way and prefer certain books. Ebooks cost more than paperbacks Yes, ebooks cost me more than paper books. It's not a question of price, I know you just thought "but the price of ebooks is always lower, how can you pay more for them than paperbacks?". For me, it's a problem of product usability . If I buy a product and then don't use it, I've wasted my money.
I bought some ebooks, started reading them (not even all of them) and never finished them. Why? There are 4 reasons: I forget I have ebooks : I can't see them, they're not physically anywhere. To see them I am forced to turn on an ebook reader (I have a Kobo , which I haven't used for some time) or open a program (Adobe Digital Special Data Publishing or Kindle for desktop). Does it seem comfortable to you? Not to me at all. I forget I started reading an Special Data ebook : for the same reasons as above. I don't like reading ebooks : I feel like I'm not reading a book. It won't make much sense, but that's how it is. It seems absurd to me to use an electronic tool to read books : if on the one hand ebooks are a technological innovation, on the other they force readers to spend more or have to download and install a program.
The only advantage of ebooks is the space saving and the convenience of carrying a reader with you. Advantages that don't interest me. PQM (for these reasons, cit.) ebooks cost me more than paperbacks. Modern foreign fiction is preferable to current Italian fiction I'm not a xenophile, on the contrary. But I can't read modern Italian novels, because they are set in the period in which we live - obviously, someone will say - and I don't feel comfortable at all in the Italian 21st century. Finding myself reading about today's social problems, about Facebook, about kids who speak an incomprehensible language, etc., in short finding myself here again, where and when I don't like to be, doesn't suit me at all. Reading, after all, is escapism: if I read about this Italy and this century, what kind of escapism is it? Some will say that I have never tried (nor can I try) to live in the 19th or 18th century or even earlier.
I bought some ebooks, started reading them (not even all of them) and never finished them. Why? There are 4 reasons: I forget I have ebooks : I can't see them, they're not physically anywhere. To see them I am forced to turn on an ebook reader (I have a Kobo , which I haven't used for some time) or open a program (Adobe Digital Special Data Publishing or Kindle for desktop). Does it seem comfortable to you? Not to me at all. I forget I started reading an Special Data ebook : for the same reasons as above. I don't like reading ebooks : I feel like I'm not reading a book. It won't make much sense, but that's how it is. It seems absurd to me to use an electronic tool to read books : if on the one hand ebooks are a technological innovation, on the other they force readers to spend more or have to download and install a program.
The only advantage of ebooks is the space saving and the convenience of carrying a reader with you. Advantages that don't interest me. PQM (for these reasons, cit.) ebooks cost me more than paperbacks. Modern foreign fiction is preferable to current Italian fiction I'm not a xenophile, on the contrary. But I can't read modern Italian novels, because they are set in the period in which we live - obviously, someone will say - and I don't feel comfortable at all in the Italian 21st century. Finding myself reading about today's social problems, about Facebook, about kids who speak an incomprehensible language, etc., in short finding myself here again, where and when I don't like to be, doesn't suit me at all. Reading, after all, is escapism: if I read about this Italy and this century, what kind of escapism is it? Some will say that I have never tried (nor can I try) to live in the 19th or 18th century or even earlier.