Book Porn
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Curtis71
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My phone won't open that link....I'll never know what it's better than Kindle...
Curtis71
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I do both. It used to bother me (like I was being untrue to myself or something) but I decided that the reading was more important than the medium. So I'm over it. I still buy books and treasure them, but I also read my Kindle daily. Or, more correctly, my Kindle app on Android phone and iPad. I don't actually have a Kindle.
yellow_rose71
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I have to admit I agree with you. I always talked about the feeling of the book in your hand. Holding the corner as you got ready to turn the page. I never thought I would own a Kindle (or like device).
Then I was given one as a birthday gift and I changed my way of thinking. Granted I use it more for knitting patterns, pictures, Netflix and music but I downloaded a few good books... the ones I can open to any page and enjoy again and again. Plus a friend gave me a file of Fables by Bill Willingham. Its a comic book series. I never read something like that before but I love the look on the Kindle.
I think there's a place for both in our lives.
AllyRose
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You're a romantic about books you can touch. It's ambiance.
AllyRose
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Posted before, but surely worth another look:
Most beautiful libraries.
Also, you can't make a Kindle. But if you know chaps like this, you can make a book.
Most beautiful libraries.
Also, you can't make a Kindle. But if you know chaps like this, you can make a book.
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oggbashan
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The recent ancestors of most UK people owe their love of books to a Carnegie Library:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
In the UK libraries are under threat of closure and amalgamation but some are being kept open by trustees and volunteers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
In the UK libraries are under threat of closure and amalgamation but some are being kept open by trustees and volunteers.
Fata Morgana
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The Hay Festival. The entire town basically turns into a library. So beautiful.
Fata Morgana
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Oh god I love Hay. I'm always banging on about it on here. I think I've posted pics in this thread somewhere. And it's a kindle free zone!
And as if I didn't love it enough, I was watching Robert Plant on Jools the other night and he said he met his current band members there at the festival.
There was a particularly gorgeous little bookshop last year that had me squirting from every orifice. They had some beautiful antique editions of children's books illustrated by Dulac, Rackham and Minnie Dibdin Spooner. I had to put gloves on to handle them and I didn't breathe. Think they were all over a grand. If I won the lottery...
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Fata, I shall be checking my Euromillions with renewed care tonight. If I should be lucky you can have the whole shop. (Maybe leave me one of the Rackhams. Did they have any Tenniel?)
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DesEsseintes
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Bugger. Foiled again. It's starting to feel personal. I mean, what are the odds of not winning again? No squirty bookshop for you just yet, I'm afraid.
(I know what the odds are.)
Fata Morgana
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Fuck.
I'd already written my notice for Phil. It had the words cunt, die, pathetic, stinking, arse and shove in it. You can fill in the blanks.
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'Darling Phil,
I adore you. Whenever you are away I want to die. My love is so overwhelming, and I feel so pathetic. I would do anything for you. You could shove me in a river and I would still love you. I want your cute arse in my face, and your cock in my stinking cunt.
Yours passionately,
F. Morgana (FBA, FRS, VC and bar).'
Did I get it right?
