Spare a thought for the humble hardback this Christmas. It seems the traditional giftwrapped tome is being trumped by downloads, after Amazon customers bought more e-books than printed books for the first time on Christmas Day.
As people rushed to fill their freshly unwrapped e-readers – one of the top-selling gadgets this festive season – the online retailer said sales at its electronic book store quickly overtook orders for physical books. Its own e-reader, the Kindle, is now the most popular gift in Amazon’s history.
I bought a Kindle for my wife a year or so back. She loves it. We have both done away with buying paper books. We were running out of storage space for our book collection, however that is no longer an issue. She tears through books much faster on the Kindle too. Now if I could only tear it from her hands, I could get some of my reading done. 🙂
My husband bought me a Kindle for Christmas and I download Lost Symbol on Christmas Day. I love my ereader!
Even though it may indicate my age, I want my books printed on paper.
I agree with Rita…I have quite a few books that are over 80 years old…a couple over 100 years old. Where will e-books be decades from now, especially if a company or even a government decides to make them illegal or deletes them someday?
I’m happy e-books are available for those that want them, but as for me I’ll stick with my books.
All my life I’ve been a book-worm….A Kindle-worm? It just sounds wrong.
By the way the bookworm, is not to be confused with the inchworm, which is neither…(well, you know how that goes)
This looks like paradise to me.
Like you, I’ve always been a bookworm too, Gary…My dream home would have a high-ceilinged, oak paneled library with miles of wooden shelves and a spiral staircase leading up to the high shelves on the balconies. I always thought Prof. Higgins’ library in “My Fair Lady” would be a good start and I’d expand it from there…