Personally, I've never noticed books to have much smell except for the aforementioned must from an old book.
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Personally, I've never noticed books to have much smell except for the aforementioned must from an old book.
You've never noticed how freshly printed paper smells amazing?
I just got a new book earlier this week and it smells wonderful. The first thing I was asked was "how does it smell".
It doesn't smell like much of anything to me. Unless I'm in a bookstore, then I can smell it. It smells just fine. But most books sit on shelves/in inventory for awhile...I'm not sure how fresh they are! :gator:
The phases of conversion:
1) I just love books! I love turning the pages! I love the smell of them!
2) Oh, an ereader for my birthday? Thanks, I guess. I don't smell anything.
3) Look at all the books I'm reading!
4) Ereaders 4 lief!
Happens every time a bookworm touches an ereader. Every time.
I was actually super excited to get an e-reader right from the start. But then again, I am a robot, so I am biased.
There are two major downfalls for me for e-readers:
1. For whatever reason, sometimes my e-readers spazzes out on me and just starts zooming ahead, and I have to page back to where I was.
2. I have an obsessive compulsive reading system that I can't do on my e-reader...I have to read it the "normal" way, and so it's kind of grating, especially if I've been reading physical books.
1. I think because it's about 4 years old now, and dust has collected underneath it and sometimes it triggers the pages forewards. :gator:
2. Okay, well it will sound loopy, but here it is:
First, I take all the pages, and split them in half. Then I split them in half again. So, I more or less split the book in to quarters. I place a bookmark there. Then I read the book in blocks of 20 pages at a time. If my bookmarked page is less than 20 pages I read until there (example: my bookmarked pages is 109, so I go from page 100 to 109 instead of 120. I would have 9 pages to read in that block, and then 11 pages to read in my next block). Every time I hit my bookmark, I quarter it again, but by the pages remaining...so not actually an exact quarter of the book itself. I keep doing that until I finish the book.
I'm not sure why/how/when I developed that system, but since I have, I can't read books in any other way.
You're insane is why you need that system
What is even the purpose of that??
That's pretty interesting... I do admit to bookmarking the next chapter ahead in a physical book so I know how many pages I have left to go to get to the next chapter. Sort of a way to keep me going, because I lose attention very easily when reading a book.
My boyfriend has a kindle paperwhite and he reads it all the damn time. Seriously. We'll be in the University lounge/cafe area, and he'd be reading happily along. I ask him a question or something, and he doesn't notice me. It takes repeated attempts for him to pick down and notice! He is really into his books though, so I guess it's understandable.
I just prefer my books in paper format. I've used his kindle before, just to see what it does and stuff. It's okay, but I tried reading a book on it and just couldn't connect with it. I lost attention too easily and just didn't find the screen agreeable, even though, it being a paperwhite, it has the latest technology revolving around e-paper.
I love fresh book smell almost as much as I love new shoe smell.
A book. I hate the idea of reading an E-Book and while tablets are convenient they annoy me at the same time.