While we were rearranging and painting and redoing the floors, I had our DVDs stacked up, and I took some pictures. It's kinda neat to see them all, but I'm thinking: wouldn't a hard-drive take up less room and be more convenient?
Some DVDs I have I do like the case and material that came with it...mostly the Criterion Collections.
What do I spy above? Crouching Tiger, Bullitt, Citizen Kane, the South Park movie, Danger Mouse and Voltron, the huge Married with Children box, even Tod Browning's Freaks...
I'm in the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, and the publishers generally insist on sending hard copies of books they want reviewed. I get one most months, and they do take up some room. (I love my Kindle Fire.) LibraryThing does have a giveaway program, where you can send books you no longer want to good homes. Late last year I disposed of maybe eight pre-publication copies that way ... never again. It took a surprising amount of effort, something I find I'm loath to spend, and over $100. It was expensive because I volunteered to ship anywhere in the world.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, all that to say, I love ebooks, because if you don't know a word, you can just touch it and get a definition; you can make footnotes on stuff you're going to keep, which is highly desirable for me; you can carry one device, on which you can own or borrow books, and the whole reading world is right there. Okay ... rambling on: I downloaded Project Gutenberg this morning to the Apple Cloud ... every book that's in the public domain, or close to it ...