It doesn't bother me as much as electronic books do. I would rather buy a regular book at a vending machine, than have to power up an e-reader, load up the book, and lug it around. I shouldn't have to buy batteries or plug something in to read a book. A regular book I can hold in my hands is preferable to me.
I might see a title in that machine that I've always wanted to read, for example.
I can't stand the idea of e-books, either. I want a real book, with words on paper that some politically-correct entity can't come and edit a few years down the line.
Back on the original topic, I'd imagine the titles in a book vending machine would be the same mass-appeal books you would fine at a drug store or bus station book shelf, so I can't imagine that I'd be buying them. That said, I'm fine with the idea. Anything that keeps the publishing industry chugging along is fine with me. Heck, at this point, anything that helps keep ANY industry in business is a good thing.
I have never seen one...but i think it would be interesting to see..
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Eh it wouldn't bother me so much now I am with Chef and Rocco about the Ereaders those I will pass on there is just something about holding an old fashioned paper book.
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Doesn't really bother me...though, if there is a book store ten minutes away...what is the point?
I'm with the rest on the e-book thingy...what if you get to a good spot and your battery dies???
Hey Chef...I heard you can buy just about anything in a vending machine in Japan...any truth to that? Sounds like a story there...
Books in a vending machine doesn't bother me. I think it is an interesting idea actually.
And I must be the only person who thinks eReaders are nice. The newer Kindle has a fantastic battery life, upwards of two weeks if you turn off the wifi, under moderate use. But it does have features like a backlight that will shorten that life. So a battery running out on you would only happen if you didn't plan ahead. And you can carry around a fairly large amount of content.
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I would buy one if they had a book vending machine at the train station; that would be cool haha.
Book vending machine or e-book? cool ideas, wish I'd thought of them.
I love grabbing novels and reading material online, storing them to a flash mem chip and then reading them on the boat out in the middle of the cove, behind sunglasses - while surreptitiously scoping out the latest bikini models.
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Hmm, have not seen one of these yet. I'm thinking I wouldn't be bothered by it either. That being said, I don't think I'd opt to purchase a book from one. I'm with you on the whole thing about actually walking around in a bookstore (used or well-known chain) perusing different titles and being able to leaf through the pages and skim over the story a bit, before I decide on what I want to purchase at the time.
On that note, I'll be leaving for work a bit early today so I'll have time to pop in the bookstore, as one of my favorite erotica authors' next book in her series has come out...woohoo!
That other post up there though, 'school girl's used underwear', I'm sorry but WTF??!! lol. People will try to sell anything???
It seems wrong. I have an e-reader and I like it but I agree it is not the same as the feel and smell of a book.
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Btw, I think it is fine for airports, train stations, etc...though I'd prefer the beer and cigarette machine myself...
I don't think there's anything you can't buy in a vending machine.
