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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5629536" data-attributes="member: 54707">Interesting.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Well, I'll give ya an example from my own&nbsp; experience. I have buddies, a few in particular, and we used to read a lot of&nbsp; different kinds of stuff. William James, Henry James, Hemingway, Aeschylus (my&nbsp; favorite Greek writer), Russians (I preferred Tolstoy, he Dostoevsky - we had&nbsp; some good arguments about Russians), Goethe, etc. We (and other buddies I&nbsp; had) used to get together and hang out or go out to eat and argue over what we&nbsp; were reading and who are favorite writers were, etc. &nbsp; &nbsp;(And yeah, we'd argue recent writers, like&nbsp; Donaldson or Niven or Herbert back then too, but we'd also argue psychology, and&nbsp; literature, and poetry, and science, and art and religion, and so&nbsp; forth.)&nbsp; &nbsp;We had some great discussion and arguments and it&nbsp; was a lot of fun. Quotes would fly and Virgils would weep. But recently I've&nbsp; noticed I'm one of the few people who is still reading books. And that's fine by&nbsp; me, but most of my buddies, when I see or talk with them, and most of the&nbsp; younger people I know using Kindle or the internet (for reading) are reading&nbsp; much shorter stuff, and nothing like what they used to read. It's pretty much&nbsp; all new stuff now or tech stuff or professional stuff. (For sentence a lot of my&nbsp; friends now read pop psychology books, whereas before they were reading Jung or&nbsp; Adler.)&nbsp; &nbsp;So it's not a change in behavior as far as the NYT&nbsp; bestseller lists, but I have noticed a change in the reading habit behaviors of&nbsp; those I associate with or know. (I'm not counting kids or young people as&nbsp; changing of course, they may very well read whatever is assigned them on their&nbsp; Kindles. Or whatever other device they're packing. And they're too young to note&nbsp; a change in behavior, but they don't seem to be reading anything more than&nbsp; recent release stuff to begin with. My daughters read literature, but they have&nbsp; to cause they're homeschooled. But they don't talk about it with their friends&nbsp; of the same age because the friends don't read it.) &nbsp; &nbsp;Of course this situation could also be because my&nbsp; buddies and I are a lot older and don't see each other that much anymore. It&nbsp; could be that when we were younger it was just the spur of getting together and&nbsp; having nice arguments and debates that sorta pushed us on in this respect.&nbsp; That's a possibility I've entertained too. Now, not being able to see each other&nbsp; all that often, maybe there is less impetus to read literature or whatever else&nbsp; we liked to discuss. Though I still read a lot. And they do too, for the most&nbsp; part, just very different content.&nbsp; &nbsp;But my kids don't really have anyone to talk about&nbsp; Shakespeare with their own age. Or even Sherlock Holmes. Not like I did at that&nbsp; age. Heck my daughter was shocked to learn that almost no-one her age at church&nbsp; knew who Daniel Boone was. But not as shocked as me, cause I live in the South.&nbsp; (History is another thing I don't see people reading much anymore.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I'm glad to hear that. Maybe it's just my neck of&nbsp; the woods, or the folks I know. And maybe the problem will be&nbsp; self-correcting. It's encouraging to hear that.&nbsp; &nbsp;For those of you who own electronic readers. How&nbsp; many volumes can you store on your device? Can you accumulate a whole library on&nbsp; there? And do you accumulate any, or even a lot of books you never&nbsp; read, or have yet to read?&nbsp; &nbsp;I've read every book in my personal (physical)&nbsp; library. Just wondering if it is customary to get books for an e-Library you&nbsp; never read, or that you intend to read later?Typically I buy a book for my physical library only if I intend to read it right after I buy it.&nbsp; &nbsp;And for that matter, if you have a reader do you&nbsp; still bother accumulating volumes for your (physical) library?&nbsp; &nbsp;And thanks for your replies guys. This has given&nbsp; me some component design ideas for my own device.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5629536, member: 54707"] [FONT=Courier New]Interesting.[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]Well, I'll give ya an example from my own experience. I have buddies, a few in particular, and we used to read a lot of different kinds of stuff. William James, Henry James, Hemingway, Aeschylus (my favorite Greek writer), Russians (I preferred Tolstoy, he Dostoevsky - we had some good arguments about Russians), Goethe, etc. We (and other buddies I had) used to get together and hang out or go out to eat and argue over what we were reading and who are favorite writers were, etc. [/FONT] [FONT=Courier New](And yeah, we'd argue recent writers, like Donaldson or Niven or Herbert back then too, but we'd also argue psychology, and literature, and poetry, and science, and art and religion, and so forth.)[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]We had some great discussion and arguments and it was a lot of fun. Quotes would fly and Virgils would weep. But recently I've noticed I'm one of the few people who is still reading books. And that's fine by me, but most of my buddies, when I see or talk with them, and most of the younger people I know using Kindle or the internet (for reading) are reading much shorter stuff, and nothing like what they used to read. It's pretty much all new stuff now or tech stuff or professional stuff. (For sentence a lot of my friends now read pop psychology books, whereas before they were reading Jung or Adler.)[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]So it's not a change in behavior as far as the NYT bestseller lists, but I have noticed a change in the reading habit behaviors of those I associate with or know. (I'm not counting kids or young people as changing of course, they may very well read whatever is assigned them on their Kindles. Or whatever other device they're packing. And they're too young to note a change in behavior, but they don't seem to be reading anything more than recent release stuff to begin with. My daughters read literature, but they have to cause they're homeschooled. But they don't talk about it with their friends of the same age because the friends don't read it.) [/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]Of course this situation could also be because my buddies and I are a lot older and don't see each other that much anymore. It could be that when we were younger it was just the spur of getting together and having nice arguments and debates that sorta pushed us on in this respect. That's a possibility I've entertained too. Now, not being able to see each other all that often, maybe there is less impetus to read literature or whatever else we liked to discuss. Though I still read a lot. And they do too, for the most part, just very different content.[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]But my kids don't really have anyone to talk about Shakespeare with their own age. Or even Sherlock Holmes. Not like I did at that age. Heck my daughter was shocked to learn that almost no-one her age at church knew who Daniel Boone was. But not as shocked as me, cause I live in the South. (History is another thing I don't see people reading much anymore.)[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]I'm glad to hear that. Maybe it's just my neck of the woods, or the folks I know. And maybe the problem will be self-correcting. It's encouraging to hear that. [/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]For those of you who own electronic readers. How many volumes can you store on your device? Can you accumulate a whole library on there? And do you accumulate any, or even a lot of books you never read, or have yet to read?[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]I've read every book in my personal (physical) library. Just wondering if it is customary to get books for an e-Library you never read, or that you intend to read later?Typically I buy a book for my physical library only if I intend to read it right after I buy it. [/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]And for that matter, if you have a reader do you still bother accumulating volumes for your (physical) library?[/FONT] [FONT=Courier New]And thanks for your replies guys. This has given me some component design ideas for my own device.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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