Pagetopper.

http://cainescroll.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-V-S-The-Kindle-322265316

And meanwhile.....

http://www.derpibooru.org/8693?scope=scpe86d010c1f5313316ceea925edbc337585ca804fb

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:17:04 AM by marston

Even Twilight has trouble converting her books to epub format.

Kindle doesn't read ePub :P

What is it, mobi? Sorry, I forgot.

Eeyup, Mobi. Though on the Fire you can install a Nook app via third-party sources and read ePubs through that (I have a Fire, but most of our ebooks are on the Nook, so I have the best of both worlds :P)

I hate E-books.

They are an abomination.

They must be purged.

E-books will be useful when the inevitable mass book burnings start.

Oi, it's a convenient way to read fanfic like Time Lords And Terror, and I can read it away from an internet connection~ (I mainly use my Kindle for internet anyways)

Book-Burnings?

Not while I'm alive.

It's useful for reading fanfics, but unfortunately, most people don't make it available in mobi format, and conversion is a pain. (Plus with stuff like the Red Velvet chapter of CEQ, it won't show up well anyway.

"Why would you like to purchase an e-book sir?"

"To read My Little Pony fanfiction."

"......"

I manage my library with Calibre. I just have to export OpenDocument Text files to PDF before conversion, because they refuse to convert to Mobi :|

Not just that. Also free Cory Doctorow books and other fanfiction~

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:39:52 AM by Sixthhokage1

>People who think that reading is about to become obsolete.

Those people are fools. They are missing out on many of the greatest experiences and most wonderful pleasures of life. If they have never been entertained by Rudyard Kipling's compulsively readable prose, never brought to tears by John Stienbeck or Hans Christian Anderson, never experienced the writings of Pascal, Voltaire, or Rousseau, never expierienced any of the other billions of books out there to be read, never been truly engrossed in a book, then I think that they have not truly lived a full life. If they think that literature, that books, that reading is like technology, to be replaced and updated, to become obsolete, then they are more confused than I ever have been or ever will be.

Reading is reading, it doesn't matter what you read it on. An e-book is a book, the same as a book is a book.

@Atc Agreed, but reading on an e-book is still reading.

Semi-Ninja'd.

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:42:25 AM by PurpleDalek

No, the form is just as important as the content.

It doesn't support the publisher, and it only gives 99 cents to the author. If you really cared about reading, you'd pay at least three dollars per book so you could truly support the authors.

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:43:01 AM by ATC

I prefer reading stuff in print, but will make do with an ebook if I have to

Most of my non-fanfic "if I have to" is Cory Doctorow stuff downloaded directly from the guy's website. I don't really have the money or the means to go out to a bookstore a lot.

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:45:04 AM by Sixthhokage1

@ATC And most people who buy e-books wouldn't have bought the physical book. It actually makes the authors more money. Not to mention people who buy books they already own to have an e-book copy, and the fact that most people will borrow a physical book from a friend or library more often than buy one.

I have to agree, ATC. At the same time, I have to vehemently disagree with those that feel like text is worth objectively more because it's printed and bound instead of on a screen, or that an old novel is inherently better than, say, a fanwork, regardless of content or artistry. I've read prose by fan authors that flowed like poetry and moved me in ways that very rarely happen, and I'd spit in the faces of Edith Wharton (wrote a book about my hometown that makes it snowy, depressing hell on Earth) and James Joyce (fuck you, Ulysses) to shake Andrew Hussie's hand.

...so, pony book-burning...

edited 22nd Aug '12 11:48:07 AM by RedSavant

E-books also save space. Bookshelves take up a lot of room.

I prefer physical books but e-books have their advantages.

Oh, and ebooks are handy for textbooks and stuff like that. "You can't grep dead trees"

Honestly, the only time the form is as important as the content is when the content takes advantage of the form, like a pop-up book. Outside of that, everything is preferences. The actual reading experience doesn't change.

-Leaving this thread.-

As for pony book-burning, I can only ever see that happening in-universe for books on forbidden magic, better off lost forever. And don't you dare bring up Fallout Equestria's usage of it. It was one of the most horribly out of character things in that whole story.

I myself cannot stand e-books and vastly prefer to have actual physical books. But I don't understand why people try and hold up traditional books as superior to the new media. It's just a preference, either way. I'm perfectly fine with e-books growing in popularity. It's not like regular books are ever gonna disappear. People still make vinyl records after all, even though you can just download all your music digitally. Old technology never really goes away.