Comments on: Reading “books” http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Murr Brewster http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-16466 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:11:57 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/#comment-16466 Having every choice in the world shouldn't feel unsatisfying, but it does. I find myself pinballing through the Internet, and the more it clangs, the less pleasure I know. My attention span withers. I'm combating this deliberately by not acquiring much (more) technology–not even a cell phone–and keeping what I do have plugged in, so I can walk away from it. That gives me back my time, with which I can read a book.

]]> By: Mary Witzl http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-16425 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:04:58 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/#comment-16425 I feel bombarded too. What drives me crazy is that I still get stuck all too often with nothing to read but supermarket fliers and the paperback I've just finished.

It's amazing to think that just 100 years ago, a lot of people still considered themselves lucky to have their own dictionaries and bibles.

]]> By: Colette http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-16421 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:23:28 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/#comment-16421 Oh, this certainly does ring true. With all the information available today in so many different forms, it's almost like we are suffering from information clutter. Eventually we'll have to weed out stuff and just focus on what matters.

]]> By: The Daring Novelist http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-16419 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:40:42 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/#comment-16419 I can't say I feel overwhelmed. I've been reading ebooks in various formats for over a decade, and the format mess seems to be finally regularizing.

Right now I have three readers on my iPod Touch (I used to have one on my Palm) and they basically are each for a different vendor. One is for the Gutenberg Project, another is eReader that I use for Fictionwise. I love both of these, and I don't mind having separate icons for them on the desk top. I have the Kindle app, but at them moment I seriously hate it. (Justified text on a screen is EVIL. Just a note to ebook app designers: Give people a choice on text alignment.)

I think there will be a convergence soon. A cross platform format that any reader can read.

]]> By: Liesl http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-16417 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:50:37 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/#comment-16417 Yes. I feel like I need to go on a reading diet; realize that not all words are created equal and just choose the best stuff. I don't even have time for good anymore. There's just too much of it.

]]> By: Anjali http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-16415 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:11 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/03/reading-%e2%80%9cbooks%e2%80%9d/#comment-16415 Yes! I'm finding that I'm reading several books at once, and it's taken me far longer to finish them than when I was reading a few books a week, one book at a time.

Fractured, indeed.

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