• Asetru@feddit.org
    30·
    11 days ago

    Buying warhammer miniatures, painting warhammer miniatures and playing warhammer are 3 separate hobbies.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    282·
    11 days ago

    One of these decades folks will realize that a good e-reader is as game changing as the iPod was.

      • seaQueue@lemmy.world
        102·
        11 days ago

        I mean, no one’s telling you that you can’t or that you shouldn’t. I just like having two decades of reading material on tap at any time without needing to lug a library around.

      • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
        61·
        11 days ago

        I got round that problem by buying a folding leather cover for my Kobo

        It’s an absolute game changer for holidays etc

    • simple@lemm.ee
      6·
      11 days ago

      If there was an easy way to easily let friends borrow your books, I’d agree. The whole benefit of physical books (aside from convenience) is full ownership of it. I can always sell it or buy cheap used ones.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        If you’re up to it, there are some high Calibre solutions out there that can liberate the books you own to be able to lend them to friends.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      6·
      11 days ago

      This is the invention I’ve been dreaming of.

      It looks like a blank book. Pages look, feel, and smell like regular paper. I download a new book and text appears on the pages. I read it like a regular book, and when I’m done I can erase the text and start over.

      I know it’s a luxury item for a limited market, but that’s what I want.

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      I’m on my seventh e-ink kindle. I still prefer paper for reference books, but e-ink for everything else.

      • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        How did you go through six? I still rock my first and almost a decade old kindle

        • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 days ago

          Working in machine shops; I often had cycle time to read. Drops killed most of them. I had a few mysteriously die. When I would open them up, there was board and frame corrosion. Metal working fluids and fine metal chips are hell on electronics.

          Dropped a few in the bathtub. Current kindle has been dropped in the bath, but survived. It may die due to corrosion. Battery is getting weak anyhow.

          For years, I didn’t use a cover. I now have one of the official Amazon covers and have gotten better longevity on my former and current kindles. My case has a crack in it due to a drop.

          I consider them a consumable, they’re cheap compared to the knowledge and pleasure they give me.

        • seaQueue@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 days ago

          When you use them heavily some of the incremental improvements are nice to have. I swapped my mid 2010s Nook for an ~8in Boox 3y ago or so and it was a huge upgrade.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      If you angrily throw your eReader across the room when the book’s ending sucks and pisses you off, it’s a lot more expensive than that time I did it to Michael Crichton’s Sphere.

    • Wolf314159@startrek.website
      41·
      10 days ago

      I’m very pro real books and as a result was hesitant to jump on the ebook bandwagon. That all changed after finishing a particularly large book early during a long trip, lugging those damn dead trees around the country for a while and unable to find anything worthwile to read in along the way. Now with my ebook any book and every book on my “to read” list taking up the same space, same weight, and I don’t worry about damaging them because the ebook is waterproof with a rugged cover.

      I still buy hard to find and out of print books at used book stores, but those stay home and get gifted to special people when I’m done.

      • seaQueue@lemmy.world
        11·
        8 days ago

        Yup, this is the way. My e-reader weighs less than my phone and is about 1/4th the size of a hardback or trade paperback with the cover or a protective sleeve. It’s a game changer for travel, commuting, waiting time before appointments, etc.

        I’ve read 200+ books in the span of time I might have read 20 if I had to throw an actual book in my bag on the way out the door.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      10 days ago

      I probably read about as much on my phone as I do on paper. I would never read a book on my phone. I hate that experience compared to reading a physical book when it comes to such media. I would have to think about it a lot more to explain it coherently, but it’s ok for wikipedia and not ok for books.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 days ago

      My favorite story is that I was on my way to one store to buy a new bookshelf. On the way, I stopped at a different place and brought three new books.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      Terry Pratchett said “I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who has enough space for all their books.”

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    7·
    11 days ago

    Do folks even library anymore?

    I always have at least one library book on the go. It’s literally free.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    4·
    10 days ago

    When I was young my parents took us on a vacation to Hawaii. My carry on had like 8 books in it and I finished half of them before we even got there.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    10 days ago

    I describe my book purchasing as “aspirational.” I learn about way too many (potentially) interesting books / authors / topics compared to my time to read. If I complete one third of the books in my library before death, I will be satisfied.