Quotes About E-readers

books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

I have no luddite prejudice against new technology; it's just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

the great de-Kindling, which started when people realized their e-readers were collecting data on their reading habits, like what page they stopped on. Jackie thinks people miss turning real pages. Gruen says it's note taking, marking up the books, that people miss.

These come in a variety of file formats; besides its own native file format of Kindle (.azw) files, your Kindle Fire HDX will also read books in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format, in MobiPocket (.MOBI) format, or in plain text (.TXT) format.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're pretty well done.

I found the iPad to be too large and heavy to use comfortably in casual situations (like reading in bed, for example), and too limited to use as a replacement for my laptop. By comparison, the Nexus 7 is just the right size for use anywhere - it's very similar in size to my daughter's Kindle Fire, but lighter.

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.

E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-formatted, typographically impoverished rendering of a paper book. That's not the electronic book I want. I want a gorgeous physical object, with paper pages, that can transform into any story I choose, perfectly presented on the page.

Women over 50 were the first adopters of e-readers, changing the face of book publishing, and they continue to be the number-one group of book buyers.