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.
Photo: Wu Pei-hua, Liberty Times 照片：自由時報記者吳佩樺
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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