Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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22 February 2010
21:0841200I am sorry to say that the Readers Digest is no longer,I have been buying good books off them for over 23years and have always found them to be great books.I am looking at one now Guide to Places of the World,if like me you have not got around the world I think the next best thing are books like this one the photos are just out of this world also to read and see about the natural and man-made wonders of the world again just great.
I think that the Readers Digest will be missed by alot of the public that read good books.
22 February 2010
21:1541202Killed by the internet Vic. If you want to see the world from your armchair today, the web is by far the best place to do it.
I remember sitting in my office in Dover, looking at cctv coverage of the city square in Vientienne, Laos, whilst chatting online to my daughter who was sitting in the same square having coffee and chatting to me! The RD just can't compete with that experience.
Sadly the RD got out of touch with how to meet modern information demands, and reading online is now gathering pace too. They had their day and now it's the day of new technology.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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22 February 2010
21:2841203Mr Perkins.
You could be right on that one but I like reading and looking at good books and they can be looked after as a record and the young ones of the family also like to look at them.
And not all familys have a P.C. so the only way for them to see the world is still with books.
but you are right in what you say "The world moves on",but not always for the best.
22 February 2010
23:3341214Yep, I like books too Vic and indeed have a number from RD. I read techie books in my office, footie books in the bedroom and something about history in the lounge. The bottom shelf in my office is full of BIG RD books from about 25 years ago, good reference material and very helpful to my kids when they were growing up. Now, they use the internet.
Just think, it wasn't that long ago people would write letters to each other and banks had staff rather than machines to serve us. Ah the good old days.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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23 February 2010
08:3341217I am a book lover as well but they will be under increased threat from the new e-books.
I have a pile of books, loads of them, to think that they could all be accomodated into a single e-reader certainly appeals to me. I have been off on a two week holiday packing 4 novels into a suitcase only then to finish them off after a week and a half.... To be able to take a lot more books with me taking up the space of just one is very tempting. I wont get one though until the technology matures and there is a larger choice of books available.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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23 February 2010
12:0341225I'm not sorry to see Reader's Digest go, they've been plagueing me for years with enough junk mail and dodgy competitions to drive me barmy. Some of their books were very good, some very poor, but either way there was nothing in their stuff that couldn't be sourced from a good bookshop.
Blimey, Barry, 4 novels in a week and a half's holiday? You must have gone somewhere exceptionally dull! On our cruise last year I only managed two!
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23 February 2010
23:4041264Not sure my book collection of over 3000 books and growing at 3-4 books a month would fit onto a Kindle or some other sort of e-reader
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
24 February 2010
07:1941266There is nothing to replace the joy of a secondhand book shop! Our house is stuffed floor to ceiling in my books and I wouldn't want it any other way.
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24 February 2010
08:0941267Andy - dull indeed. I hate beach type holidays but sometimes you have to go along with what the family want. Greece in 2008, two weeks sweltering hot (far too hot for me) I stayed on the comparitively cool veranda of the apartment while the others go to beach/pool. You get through a lot of books that way, one of the books I was over half way through when we left for the holiday anyway.
Ross - I do believe these e-readers can take that many books and more. Some have expansion slots (like phones) as well. I want one but not just yet....
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24 February 2010
10:2241269I'm not convinced about e-books; they strike me as technology replacing something that doesn't need replacing. Same as CDs replacing vinyl - sure, the quality was an improvement, but there was that certain thing about vinyl albums that CDs have never quite taken over, and I think the same about books - who wants to look at a screen anyway? That's one of the reasons for reading a book!
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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24 February 2010
18:5341297I have very mixed feelings with Reader`s Digest. Still have my LP boxed collection`s from the early 70s from them, plus a number of books. I used to hate those competitions they ran though, which you had to sift through and read everything to understand what had to be sent off etc. Remember when you were offered something that you really had no interest whatsoever in, and yet the NO envelope said, `Why say know when you could be saying maybe? Frankly, we`re a bit puzzled that you don`t want to see this book on free approval`....... GRRRRRRRR Irritating company.
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24 February 2010
19:4041304Andy - they are not like reading an LCD or CRT screen, reads more like paper and the feel and size of the unit is similar.
You dont really prefer vinyl to an ipod, surely?
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24 February 2010
20:3041311Barry
I miss vinyl big time and don't have an ipod. Technology scares the living daylights out of me, I'm the archetypal Luddite! Every time you buy something new, it's out of date in no time at all and belongs in a museum apparently.
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24 February 2010
20:5441314Andy, you can't beat an iPod mate. I took 6697 music tracks, 15 feature films, over 30 podcasts about British history, and umpteen YouTube downloads with me to Nigeria. Try doing that with old time technology! Oh yes, I almost forgot, my iPod wasn't even half full!!!
Incidentally, 6697 tracks is the equivalent of 744, 9 track, vinyl albums.
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24 February 2010
20:5741316You have lost me on all this Technology so it is back to my books.
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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25 February 2010
14:3041357Wondered why I had not had the usual buff envelope telling me that 'out of all the people in your postcode area YOU have been selected to receive seven chances to win' etc, etc....
Will not and have not missed that part of them, but do have several books and CD's from the them which I got at bootfairs for a fraction of the cost!
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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25 February 2010
15:5241364Forgot about that first paragraph of yours BuddyG, another irritating memory of Readers Digest.......... Sid, my daughter`s have iPods and I have CD`s, but you`re either for vinyl or against it. I would rather hear a scratchy `78` of Tommy Dorsey playing `Song of India`, than any Cd, even though I have one. The sound of a top of the range cd track can never replace the authentic sound of a favourite `45` from way back. Part of the music nostalgia to me is that distinct, irreplaceable vinyl sound. I shall never part with mine.
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25 February 2010
16:4541369But the point Colin is I had almost my entire CD collection with me in Nigeria, and all I had to pack was a small device to have that benefit. Taking 700+ cd's would have been totally impractical, and vinyl moreso. I still have my CD's, 33 1/3's, 45's, 78's and 16's and wouldn't part with them for anything.
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25 February 2010
17:0041372Understand all that Sid, and with you there, but when you said you can`t beat an ipod to Andy, I thought you`d ditched all else. You can`t beat an ipod in respect to what you`re saying, but I was saying you can`t beat vinyl in other respect`s. Slightly different wavelengths mate, but the same thing.
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