Price: E-book vs. Hardcover

      Will the day come when it is the norm to pay more for an                e-book than for its physical copy?

I sure as hell hope not. A a physical copy—from here on referred to as a book—an be touched, felt, smelled, owned and resold. An e-book is an abstract form of a book. You can’t touch it, feel it, smell it and much less sell it after you’re done with it.

Why buy an e-book and not a book?

1. Books take space. If you’re like me, you love to read like crazy and like to keep the copy. If you keep buying books and keeping them there will come a time where every inch of your walls are covered in bookcases. Pretty soon you’ll be eating on a table made of a pile of books. Whereas you can have hundreds of e-books stored in one small space. For example:

a. Your laptop.

b. iPad

c. Kindle: the smallest one can store about 3,500 e-books.

There are many e-readers and you should pick one that best meets your needs. I have an iPad but most of the e-books I buy are from the Kindle App which I have on my iPad, my laptop, my other laptop and my Android phone. Everywhere I go I have my books with me.

2. Books are heavy. Even if the book is a Mass Market Paperback edition it will still weigh a lot more than its e-book twin.

3. E-books are cheaper than books. Usually. Hardcovers are about $20. An e-book averages between $9.99 and $12.99 when it launches. However, I do note that that isn’t always the case. I for one, I’m not willing to pay more for an e-book than its hardcover twin. I’m willing to pay the same for its MMP edition though. And I never pay more than $9.99 for an e-book regardless of the price of its book twin.

How much are you willing to pay for an e-book?

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IPad love and my inner artist

    Yesterday I got in the mail a long-awaited package. Upon recieving it the mailman told me that the package almost didn't make it because the sender (my aunt, who lived here for 20 years and visits regularly) forgot to write the neighborhood's name on the address. She only wrote the street and house numbers. Thank God for small towns and good people!
     Ever since I opened the box I've been in curled up in my room, nosing through every one of my iPad's corners. Currently, I'm writing this blogpost on a very useful app I downloaded for free, PaperDesk. It lets you keep notebooks by subject. You can use them for whatever you wany, very useful for college students like myself. As with any notebook, you can doodle and by free-hand too. If you have a stylus then that is made easier since we are used to wrtiting with a pen or pencil and not with our finger. It has paper selection, ruled, yellow-ruled, white....it let's you record voice notes as well.
     I also started playing with Adobe's free sketching app, Ideas. I discovered my inner artist. Here's an example:




I'll cut this short and get back to you soon (I hope) because tomorrow is my first rehearsal with my university's drama crew, TeatRUM. I auditioned a couple of weeks ago and made it! ¡Hasta la próxima!