Something young kids today will never understand

[Silver]

Nah. It's the place you log into to check out the ebook after reading a sample chapter on Amazon. [/lazy minimalist cheapskate]

I actually find it hard to read e-books unless they're very short.  Slogged through Don Quixote and Around the World in 80 Days on a dedicated e-reader and found it frustrating, so I went back to dead-tree editions.  I do most of my reading at the kitchen table, or sometimes sprawled on the couch.  (Current fiction is Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs; current non-fiction is the latest edition of Sky News).

Yes, e-books are another for me.  I cannot read them.  I need an actual book in my hands.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I actually find it hard to read e-books unless they're very short.  Slogged through Don Quixote and Around the World in 80 Days on a dedicated e-reader and found it frustrating, so I went back to dead-tree editions.  I do most of my reading at the kitchen table, or sometimes sprawled on the couch.  (Current fiction is Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs; current non-fiction is the latest edition of Sky News).

Yes, e-books are another for me.  I cannot read them.  I need an actual book in my hands.

For twenty-five years a band of total lunatics have been uploading books and files related to World War II to the Hyperwar site. The project has gotten so large nobody know everything that's online there. The volume is in terabytes. All of it "e-books". The material is mostly stuff that you would find if you were a hard-core stack mole and had access to collections that were not believed to exist any more. In the process I've ripped countless actual books apart to feed them to scanners. 

So be careful of your fingers and apologies in advance. 

[I_am_not_mafia]

Dunno if it's been mentioned (I'm too lazy to go through 11 pages ), but kids today will never understand the 1980s.  I mean, all of the 80s.

I never understood the 80's when I lived through them.

[unsapien]

Asking your passenger to unfold the map cause you're not sure where you are going. Watching them try to find out where we are by reading passing road signs, then waiting for them to find the legend that will tell them how many miles to the inch on the map, and therefore how much farther we need to go.

Then after a while, realizing that we haven't passed any of the places that they assured me were "just up ahead", taking the map from them and placing it over the steering wheel & trying to read it and drive at the same time.

Discovering that they had thought we were on highway 471, when we were actually on highway 417, getting upset, finding out where we really are and handing the map back to them.

And then watching them spend the next half hour trying to figure out how to fold the map back up the way it's supposed to be, give up, and just crumple it up & stuff it back into the glove box.

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Also...Smoking on a plane.

[Little lunch]

Nah. It's the place you log into to check out the ebook after reading a sample chapter on Amazon. [/lazy minimalist cheapskate]

I actually find it hard to read e-books unless they're very short.  Slogged through Don Quixote and Around the World in 80 Days on a dedicated e-reader and found it frustrating, so I went back to dead-tree editions.  I do most of my reading at the kitchen table, or sometimes sprawled on the couch.  (Current fiction is Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs; current non-fiction is the latest edition of Sky News).

I found Naked Lunch to be a hard slog.
If you can stomach that, may I recommend Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite.