E-reading up as paper books suffer

[Jazzy]

The tastes of the reading public seem to be turning digital.



A Pew Internet Research Centre survey has found that the percentage of Americans aged 16 and older who read an e-book grew from 16% in 2011 to 23% this year.



Readers of traditional books dropped from 72% to 67%. Overall, those reading books of any kind dropped from 78% to 75%, a shift Pew called statistically insignificant.



Those owning an e-book device or tablet jumped from 18% to 33%, with much of that increase coming from last year's holiday season, when millions received Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers as gifts.

Source



Question: Do you prefer an e-book or traditional book and why?

 

[DrLeftover]

I've gotten used to reading on the screen, but I still do read printed books.



But Amazon has Power listed as an E-book, so I guess that is the future.



http://www.amazon.co...ds=Lewis Levite



I'll have to check on the others to see if they're available electronically.

 

[Jazzy]

To me there's nothing like the real thing. Get your minds out of the gutter, I'm talking about a book! I love to curl up with a good book and read until I fall asleep. I'm not into the electronic age as it's replacing so many traditional things that I grew up with. Not to mention that I personally have over 300+ books in my home library collection.

 

[Raven]

I HATE Kindles! Give me a proper book any day!

 

[Jazzy]

I HATE Kindles! Give me a proper book any day!

Amen!

 

[DrLeftover]

I will say one thing..... it is one hell of a lot easier doing the formatting for a PRINTED BOOK than it is for the e-reader things.



The requirements for things like the Kindle and the Nook and the others is a flipping nightmare. AND, once you get it done, they update something and you've got to do it again with different standards.

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't mind reading off a screen... wouldn't be here if I did

Still, I have a book about 10cm thick here next to me, it's bit of a pain to drag around, but it's easy enough reading.

The requirements for things like the Kindle and the Nook and the others is a flipping nightmare. AND, once you get it done, they update something and you've got to do it again with different standards.

I thought ebooks were simply HTML files (+images and whatnot). Are they really that bad at displaying HTML?