A: You prefer e-books to printed paper books, don’t you?
B: Actually, not necessarily, it depends. For example, I’ll buy the e-book version of comics, novels, books on finance or biographies, but for intensive reading, like with language textbooks, I’ll buy the actual book.
A: Hmm, that makes sense. I’ll put several books in my bag, thinking to read them during the course of the day, and I lug them around every day, breaking my back, and it always turns out that the book I want to read I didn’t bring out with me.
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B: Ha, you like doing things the hard way, don’t you?
A: So, I’m thinking, if I had the e-book, I could bring hundreds of books with me when I go out, just like that.
B: You’re absolutely right.
A: 跟紙本書比起來,你比較偏好電子書,對不對?
B: 其實也不見得啦,看情況。比如說漫畫小說財經傳記,我就買電子書,需要精讀的,比如說語言課本,我就會買實體書。
A: 嗯,還蠻有道理的。我包包裡都會放幾本書,想說出去會看,每天帶來帶去,重得要死,偏偏最後想讀的那本書,是沒帶出來的!
B: 哈哈,你還蠻會折磨自己的嘛!
A: 所以我想說,如果是電子書,我就可以一下子把好幾百本帶出門!
B: 百分之百正確!
(Translated by Paul Cooper, Taipei Times/台北時報林俐凱)
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