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seldneiI love to read. It's one of the things everyone has known about me my entire life--people I barely knew in school knew I loved to read. And recently, whenever I'm somewhere and I whip out an actual paper book, I get The Question.
So here are my answers to "Why don't you have a Kindle/Nook/iPad?"
1. Price tag. I'm broke, people, and I have other stuff I need to spend my money on.
2. I like e-readers, particularly iPads, but I really don't need another gadget. I have at least two devices that allow me to read stuff electronically, and both of them also surf the net, play music and movies, hold pictures, and do e-mail. Yeah, an iPad would be more convenient for some of this stuff in terms of size, but when size is the only reason I can come up with to buy something, well, it's not enough.
3. I'm klutzy. I live in fear of dropping my laptop and my phone. If I drop a book, the worst thing that happens is my foot gets bruised.
4. Based on my experiences with my smartphone and my DS, if the Zweeble saw me reading on an iPad, he'd want to play with it. If I'm reading a book, he dismisses it as a grown-up thing and I don't have to share. (I think the same would go for a Nook. Probably not a Kindle.)
None of this is to disparage e-readers--I think those things are probably a godsend for students (or soon will be), and if I were in college right now I'd be all over one; plus, I have friends who love theirs and that's cool. Anything that gets people reading is teh awesome. And in another four or five years, I'll probably get one, too. But at the moment, I'm doing fine without it.
So here are my answers to "Why don't you have a Kindle/Nook/iPad?"
1. Price tag. I'm broke, people, and I have other stuff I need to spend my money on.
2. I like e-readers, particularly iPads, but I really don't need another gadget. I have at least two devices that allow me to read stuff electronically, and both of them also surf the net, play music and movies, hold pictures, and do e-mail. Yeah, an iPad would be more convenient for some of this stuff in terms of size, but when size is the only reason I can come up with to buy something, well, it's not enough.
3. I'm klutzy. I live in fear of dropping my laptop and my phone. If I drop a book, the worst thing that happens is my foot gets bruised.
4. Based on my experiences with my smartphone and my DS, if the Zweeble saw me reading on an iPad, he'd want to play with it. If I'm reading a book, he dismisses it as a grown-up thing and I don't have to share. (I think the same would go for a Nook. Probably not a Kindle.)
None of this is to disparage e-readers--I think those things are probably a godsend for students (or soon will be), and if I were in college right now I'd be all over one; plus, I have friends who love theirs and that's cool. Anything that gets people reading is teh awesome. And in another four or five years, I'll probably get one, too. But at the moment, I'm doing fine without it.
