General / Off-Topic The End of Print - A poll
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Well, if you are a luddite goodness knows what that makes me, pre-historic, a dinosaur? I still have my collection of Amiga Format and CU Amiga magazines from the 90s and early 2000s, including the disks! No ebook version could ever replace them!
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The wife decides what books you read?
When I got my Electron I typed code from magazines into computer. There always error. I called up to point this out they said they didn't have any Electron reviewers and offered me a deal that if I wrote a review on the games they send me I could keep the games as 'payment'. They didn't bother to ask my age '11' at the time. I have been trying to track down the Print copies of the magazine.
They decided to automate to dispatch process . I still get sent the Electron games (Ok only joking). The reviews these days are glorified adverts anyways..
Elite 2 Amiga with atmospheric planets!
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Just last week got a lovely Dune edition in beautiful hardcover. Not that I've never read it, just wanted to have it on my shelf and revisit one day
Do you also have a collection of shoes that you don't wear?
I exclusively read paper books, loads. News, I read on the net. But digital support for a book doesn't work for me. Ironically, my father, an avid reader himself, now barely reads on paper.
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All I know is technically the latest generation have stagnated.
My wardrobe is quite ascetic actually
Also, I don't find comparison to be on point. You don't wear books. Once you're done reading it it's done the job and may only serve as a nice shelf decoration.My wardrobe is quite ascetic actually
Just to clarify it relates to your comment of having bought a book but not read it like some chics buy shoes they don't wear and also to pervious similar comparison on another op. The particular linking concept is known as a analogy. Analogy is a word you find in a dictionary particularly if you read them. The statement is meant to be a type of sarcasm and not taken literally. A style of writing particularly found in UK and on forums.
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I read Dune. I think I said that in my post. I just wanted to have a nice hardcover copy of it.
Amazon is killing the hard copy printed word.
1: By setting the price so low that the writers and other retailers suffer.
2: By demanding exclusivity to the work.
3: By offering a down loadable option.
I think unboxed toys are another category. A good marketing trick is to sell magazines with different covers.
Good thing about this not really being a poll is for weird cases like me that's difficult to categorise. I've got a massive heap of old science fiction books. I'm currently re-reading William Gibson's "Neuromancer" in dead tree format.
But I doubt if I will ever buy another dead tree book. Ebooks are so much more convenient.
But I doubt if I will ever buy another dead tree book. Ebooks are so much more convenient.
Still failing to see any point in your "clever" analogies...Sarcasm may be a popular form of expressing yourself in the UK, but you are totally missing the gist of it
Still failing to see any point in your "clever" analogies...Sarcasm may be a popular form of expressing yourself in the UK, but you are totally missing the gist of it
I guess I am having difficulty taking someone with a username 'Caramel Clown' seriously. Anyway that's off topic to my OP which was created in response to being called a luddite in another negative off topic response to my post.
The originas of Elite stem from a digitisation of the 'Space Opera' roleplaying game.
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Nothing beats a drive into town on a Sunday morning for a Greggs bacon baguette, a large coffee and the Sunday papers. Then a wash to get all the ink off me hands two or three hours later.