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The reason I got an eReader in the first place was the Wheel of Time series. Because back then I was still commuting to work and...

A great example of how subjective tastes in art can be. I first sampled Jordon's WoT in a novella included in the 1998 Legends...

Nooooooo, the hand feel of a giant fat book is so delightful. The heft, the sensation of turning the pages. E-readers are souless, for me.

This is why they’ve become essential for me, or at least the #1 reason for it. My brain is finicky, and too many fine books on my...

Ok I have one last question, because you liked the comment where it was stated that The Great Gatsby is one of the best novels of all...

Even if @Parmandur will suffer, I really hope that the trend for fantasy books to become longer and longer will stop and reverse at some...

I love me some short novels, and I love me some long novels. The Great Gatsby is near perfect, and it weighs in at under 200 pages...

The whole discussion about book length - my personal stance is that it depends on the book, if it can hold my attention for 1000 pages...

I think the comparison doesn't work completely for me, because I enjoy music in a very different way than written content. I want to say...

Journey before destination, I don't read to get to a singular "point". Nope, because length is a plus. I would be more interested in a...

And they make those 1000 page tomes much more enjoyable because you only have the weight of your e-reader!

More important to these old eyes now is font size, line spacing, kerning and margins. Give me a 1000 page book with nice loose spacing...

I strongly preferred books that were long when I was younger, but this has been a huge shift over the past decade, and now a book needs...