Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for June 18, 2013

Long live a turtle who loves books.

I couldn’t be who I am today without books…

Never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Verne over RJ, WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?

Verne Wins! Verne Wins!

What is special about what Verne has done with the bookcase?

Bruno…….You’ll never get respect until you learn how to spell it; refer to Aretha Franklin if in doubt.

But when you have many bookshelves filled, an e-book can be useful. Also at 3 am when you run out of reading matter. (Never at home, but on the road.)

When Mark Twain was asked why so many books lay in heaps on the floor in his home he answered: How many people do you know who are lending out bookshelves? How many of you would lend me an e-book(reader)?

Remember from yesterday to use them all you have to do is use your brain !

we’ve run out of bookshelves, and are now piling the books on the floor. I’d still like an e-book, though, as it’s getting harder to hold a book with the arthritis in my hands

I still prefer the “Gutenberg format” – no special equipment required and the next generation will still be able to read it.

I will never forget the first time I walked into a library as a child. It was a little library in a small bayside town in New York. It was a warm, humid summer night and the wonderful smell of those books just floated up at me — the paper, the bindings, whatever it was. It was love at first sniff. I’m now collecting hardback editions of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries from Amazon. Most are from the forties and fifties. Beautiful stitched construction, old paper, and that wonderful smell — a little bit of heaven!

A book gives you the opportunity to see something else, to explore on your own, as opposed to being directed into a narrow, controlled avenue determined by dweebs in a cubicle somewhere. E books are not about convenience or advancements in technology, they are about control. Just think back to Farenheit 451. Bradbury was right.

I have shelves filled with books. I also have an iPad filled with books. I guess in this single instance…..I have a foot in both worlds.

I’m with you Verne! I always prefer the old-fashioned format.

I’ve never been impressed by someone’s collection of anything, though I have feigned an interest a number of times just to be sociable. Yet I can’t stand it when people patronize my tastes in the same manner.

It’s the content that matters, not the container.

Dead-tree books can’t scale fonts, search, don’t have built-in dictionaries, and weigh more.

I have a house full of full bookshelves. I like ebooks just so I don’t have to find a place to put them. Also, I like how the tablet is self-illuminating so I don’t have to turn on a lamp.

Politics & Prose, but only if you live in DC.