{"id":1129,"date":"2009-10-19T00:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2010-04-11T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T04:02:00","slug":"why-read-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/10\/19\/why-read-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Read Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That I read books probably lowers my highly coveted geek cred. Instead, e-books read on the computer screen, phone screen, or e-book reader should have long ago replaced reading on dead wood.\u00c2\u00a0Unfortunately, I am intentionally avoiding reading books much on computers, phone, or readers.<\/p>\n

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  1. \"Why<\/a>No purse to carry more stuff. I have big fingers, so I need stuff with big buttons. Things like iPhones are maddening to use because I cannot seem to hit the buttons correctly. Things with lots of big buttons tend to be big which makes them a pain to carry.<\/span>
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  2. Never underestimate my ability to break toys.<\/strong> Only the most resilient of electronic toys survive me. It isn’t uncommon for my laptops, phones, or cameras to experience 5 foot falls. Everything I carry with me ends up with marks from the abuse even books. Paper can take the abuse. I have no faith e-book readers could maintain their screens from being around me.<\/li>\n
  3. Computers tend to tempt me to fail at multi-tasking.<\/strong> When I shut down my computer to go home, I typically have at the minimum a dozen windows. (Even the client I use to connect to my servers usually can fill that dozen.) Reading on a computer rarely will result in more than a page of reading every 10 minutes. Because blog posts are usually pretty short, distractions have less chance to interfere with reading them.<\/li>\n
  4. Books are common enough people accept them as normal.<\/strong> Cool toys attract attention. I’d expect an expensive phone or e-reader or laptop to attract the kind of attention which results in theft. Books are cheap few would care to go to the effort.<\/li>\n
  5. Phone are becoming more like computers.<\/strong> What I don’t want is a phone (or another device) which I treat like my computer, aka failing at multi-tasking. Just today I squared 1024 on paper instead of using the calculator on my phone. Having access to the Internet through my phone could be bad for keeping me on task.<\/li>\n
  6. Why faux paper when you could use paper? <\/strong>The e-book readers market how much their technology looks like paper. Paper looks, feels, smells, and tastes like paper.
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  7. Spending money on a device to get to read seems counter-intuitive<\/strong>. The devices should be subsidized by the content. But that would mean Amazon $10 books would cost more like $20.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Typically I don’t change until I have a problem with what I am using. Books don’t cause me problems. So I am happy to continue to read books for the\u00c2\u00a0foreseeable\u00c2\u00a0future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    That I read books probably lowers my highly coveted geek cred. Instead, e-books read on the computer screen, phone screen, or e-book reader should have long ago replaced reading on dead wood.\u00c2\u00a0Unfortunately, I am intentionally avoiding reading books much on computers, phone, or readers. No purse to carry more stuff. I have big fingers, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256,4],"tags":[94,449,816,3027,260,88,75,814,382,815,176],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-interweb","tag-books","tag-camera","tag-computer-screen","tag-computers","tag-flickr","tag-geek","tag-internet","tag-iphone","tag-laptops","tag-multi-tasking","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-id","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}