tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post3286403849290467601..comments2024-03-05T23:31:21.612-08:00Comments on A Writers Journey: Curling up with an Electronic BookMicki Peluso is the author of "And the Whippoorwill Sang"http://www.blogger.com/profile/14286402859989726344noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-8109607052470002552012-02-07T18:56:15.212-08:002012-02-07T18:56:15.212-08:00Hey Doreen, that's the best place to be--strad...Hey Doreen, that's the best place to be--straddling both the past and the future!! Thanks for your twitters. I am blogged down under 160 linked in e-mails a night--this has got to stop as I get nothing else done.<br />Hugs,<br /><br />MickiMicki Peluso is the author of "And the Whippoorwill Sang"https://www.blogger.com/profile/14286402859989726344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-62776018191602530842012-02-07T06:55:51.482-08:002012-02-07T06:55:51.482-08:00Hi Micki! I loved reading your words, resonating w...Hi Micki! I loved reading your words, resonating with every point you made!! "..the trees must take priority for they promote life," caused me to take a deep breath. When I first enter my home, my eyes always light upon my oldest and dearest non-human friends: my books. Then my cats run up and grab my attention! One of the legacies left me by my mother was a love of reading. "You're never alone if you have a good book!" she'd say to me with passion. Sometimes I think that I have my feet planted in two worlds: one foot stands steadfastly in the past, my eyes gazing lovingly at my books and things I hold dear. The other is tingling, curious about all the new fangled gadgets and ideas. Even my ears are tuned into the past yet loving so much of the new. When I get frustrated with my computer (at least once a day!), I remember when we got our first TV.<br />Guess I'll stay in straddle position for the rest of my life...with my books by my side.Dodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065773551657339542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-38690188640058637922012-02-06T19:42:24.791-08:002012-02-06T19:42:24.791-08:00Thanks for all your comments. I'm happy to kno...Thanks for all your comments. I'm happy to know I'm not alone in both my love of books and fear of losing them in true book form.Micki Peluso is the author of "And the Whippoorwill Sang"https://www.blogger.com/profile/14286402859989726344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-80931263634647421762012-02-06T07:24:16.620-08:002012-02-06T07:24:16.620-08:00I really enjoyed your post. Stopping by from link...I really enjoyed your post. Stopping by from linked in! Glad to follow you!Audreyanna Garrett, MBA, MSchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15682925883760233091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-53099558511046672272012-02-06T07:08:28.374-08:002012-02-06T07:08:28.374-08:00Hi Micki. I had a look at this after your recommen...Hi Micki. I had a look at this after your recommendation from my recent post, and I read this article when you first posted it! For some reason the computer wouldn't let me comment before (what was that you were saying about these machines?!) Anyway, I believe that because of all of us lovers of real books, they will never be replaced. And they never should be.SpookyMrsGreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584528033663948849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-75556295682174255832012-02-06T07:05:49.445-08:002012-02-06T07:05:49.445-08:00Hi Micki
I have just read your blog on electronic...Hi Micki<br /><br />I have just read your blog on electronic books and books and have to grin. It is very well written an humorous. I really enjoyed it. It really is frightening to think that books as we know them today may not exist some time in the future. I love going to a bookstore and going through the rows, picking up a book here or there that I want to read and I also enjoy hugging my books. When I came to Europe the only thing I brought over was my books and my music and I still have them. Even though I read most of my books now on my iPad, I have a wall to wall book shelf that has all my books and they surround me as I write. Strange, but they are my friends and I really love them.<br />So nice to see someone put my feelings on paper. It really is a great article.<br />Ciao,<br />PatriciaPat Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04204650731843984192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-11641546101360554272012-02-06T03:38:55.247-08:002012-02-06T03:38:55.247-08:00Hi Micki! Great blog! I love books too but at the ...Hi Micki! Great blog! I love books too but at the same time as a freelance writer I read too many books every week to be able to get them all in hard copy. I have published three books and always put out an e-book equivalent. Hard copy books are becoming cheaper than ever with the new Print on Demand publishing techniques so I don't think that real books are going anywhere just yet. The newest developments in e-book technology are looking at replicating the look and feel of a book in an electronic version which sounds exciting. It may be possible to have hundreds of different books all in one paper simulating e-book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-65993042599425856732012-02-06T02:59:24.930-08:002012-02-06T02:59:24.930-08:00Micki ~ Although I have a Kindle and find it handy...Micki ~ Although I have a Kindle and find it handy, it will never replace a book for me. We book lovers need to help keep them alive. I personally make sure I buy at least one book a month in a store. I'm hoping electronic reading and paper reading can co-exist together - sort of like the movie theater and DVDs. FYI - Along these lines my blog, Kick Back Moments, discusses my technology detox. Check it out at http://pstrack.blogspot.com Thanks for the thoughts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05872444343533261864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-1377483628695073192012-02-05T20:05:39.192-08:002012-02-05T20:05:39.192-08:00Micki, I feel the same as you do about real books....Micki, I feel the same as you do about real books. I still do not own an e-reader and probably never will. I do have the PC version of Kindle for a couple of free downloads I wanted, but I haven't finished reading them yet. I have hundreds of books, some over 100 years old. You can never reproduce that look and feel electronically. Some old books are quite valuable, but that will never happen with electronic books either. I love the old bindings and etchings and artwork in the old books and would really miss that on an e-reader. I have an 18-volume set of the complete works of Charles Dickens, 1908 (including the letters he wrote home when he was abroad), and I wouldn't trade them for an electronic copy for anything. I hope real books will continue to be produced at least as long as I'm alive and able to read.Diane Stephensonhttp://diane-stephenson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-34872752677423027702012-01-24T16:53:57.209-08:002012-01-24T16:53:57.209-08:00This was a very intersting article. I completely a...This was a very intersting article. I completely agree that you can't replace a good hard copy book. The smell of the pages and the stains on random pages that show how much you love that book is priceless! However, I am a new mom, and being able to read a book off my phone was a godsend while breastfeeding...and you can read it in the dark without waking the baby up!Sashahttp://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_topnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-17238640750546090142012-01-24T00:05:32.190-08:002012-01-24T00:05:32.190-08:00Dear Micki and blog friends,
I loved your blog ar...Dear Micki and blog friends,<br /><br />I loved your blog article. Your analogy that books could be in the future as obsolete as "stone tablets" really brought this home for me. How horrible of a thought for all us book lovers, but the trees are so important, you are so right. I wonder if hemp or bamboo could work as a paper product for books? Print-on-demand does help save trees and authors don't have to buy hundreds of books they may never be able to sell and that just waste trees. Let us just hope that books will continue to find a place in the world in the future. And how does an author personally sign a Kindle book? Would book signings also be lost?<br /><br />Yours,<br />Martha Love, another LinkedIn FriendSilver Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01818837992347682406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937578189437367147.post-36108884961357554742012-01-23T19:19:31.344-08:002012-01-23T19:19:31.344-08:00I'll be taking my Kindle to the hospital on We...I'll be taking my Kindle to the hospital on Wednesday and hang out with it while my husband has his shoulder surgery, but I really prefer my old paperbacks. I love holding an actual book in my hands and I'm afraid I'm one of those old "die-hards" who is still clinging to the familiar and the comfortable. Great blog!Sandra McLeod Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01520092419227264264noreply@blogger.com