Somehow it makes me happy that a lot of the books on my Amazon wishlist are cheaper used than they are delivered to a Kindle. Being able to hold it in your hand and read it isn't the same as buying the rights to it.

I'd prefer hard copies to any book that I like and would read more then once which I generally do. but have not found much to pique my interest in awhile :/

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1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

Dead tree. I buy hard copies of all of my books, I annotate, highlight, write, and erase all sorts of stuff. For academic articles I prefer PDFs though, I use Adobe Acrobat to annotate them the same way. I'm not sure where that puts me

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

There is a whole industry in the southeast US built on providing trees for making paper so please, keep purchasing those hardcopy books, newspapers, magazines, toilet paper, etc.... Don't believe all the hype concerning running out of trees. They are being cut and replanted all the time around these parts. We actually have some thinning going on now that started about three weeks ago.

With that said, the very first newpaper that was printed on newsprint (newspaper paper) made with pine was a 1933 edition of The Soperton News. The trees for that first newsprint was supplied by my grandfather who was the first person to ever plant pine trees as a crop. Dr Charles Herty was the person that figured out how to process pine chips to newsprint. He was good friends with my grandfather.

If the tree huggers would come spend a few weeks with me they would see how much work it is to keep stuff cut back and sprayed. As long as it rains, stuff grows.

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Jim

I don't have time to read much and I do have issues with my mind wandering. I have noticed that with the Kindle (or even while using the Kindle app on my iPhone), that it is less of an issue. I'm guessing it's psychological.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Hard copies. Very interesting story about pine newspapers.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I like paper books. I like to keep my book shelf filled with books that I can go back and read whenever I want,

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

Depends on the book. If it's fiction or something I won't likely refer to then it goes to my Kindle -- otherwise it's paper.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Digital for me, I like to control font sizes as well as not have 100's of books lying around collecting dust.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

I would personally love to see books printed on hemp paper. Being a weed, of course, it grows like one.

^x2

It would open up a whole new industry for this part of the country.

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Jim

A smoking good book?

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For the Saved, this world is the worst it will ever get.
For the unSaved, this world is the best it will ever get.

Clk's Ebay Stuff BUY SOMETHING NOW!!!

Digital. Access anywhere with less weight and less things to dust and keep around.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Dead trees....

I got a Kindle for Christmas. Fiddled with it for about a month before I put it away.

That said, this is definitely an age demographics thing. The younger folks are much more comfortable with electronic reading than us ORFs.

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Palangi

2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

Real books, screens bother my eyes after awhile, and books don't need batteries.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200