电子书免疫者的自白

标签: 电子书 免疫 自白 | 发表时间:2011-10-24 11:57 | 作者:maystudio 橙子
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I've never used an e-reader. There, I said it.
我从不使用任何电子阅读器。我说真的。
It's not that I don't like digital things. As you may have guessed, I blog. I also e-mail, go on Facebook, watch YouTube videos, shoot photos with a digital camera, research stuff on the web, "attend" online meetings in a chat room, do freelance editing and proofreading in a pixel way, write a weekly newspaper column on my computer, and recently authored a book I keyboarded in Microsoft Word.
并不是因为我对电子产品无感。你看,我写博客、发电邮、用facebook、上youtube看视频,用数码相机拍照、在网上搜索信息、参加线上会议,我的自由撰稿和校对工作也借由电子产品完成,每周还用电脑写我的专栏,近来写的一本书也是用微软Word敲出来的。
Come to think of it, all those digital doings are one reason why I don't want to go the "e-route" for book reading. My eyes look at a screen enough hours in a day. After that, it's a relief to read novels printed on old-fashioned paper.

这么一想,我真的不想再将我对阅读也“电子化”了。我每天已经看够了各种屏幕。在那之后,阅读一本印刷在传统纸张上的小说,会是一件多么令人放松的事。

I also like the feel of print books and the way their covers look. Well, at least the way the better-designed covers look!

我也爱纸质书的质感和它们的封皮。呃,至少是那些设计精美的封皮。

Then there's the pleasure of visiting my town's library or two independent bookstores to get novels. I might chat with employees at those three places. I might run into a friend, or a parent of one of my daughter's former classmates. And as I scan the shelves for particular titles, I might serendipitously spot other titles that intrigue me.
逛逛镇上的图书馆和两家独立书店亦是充满乐趣。我可以和这三处的雇员聊聊天。我也许会巧遇朋友,或是我女儿以前同学的父母。当我在书架间搜寻特别的书名,我也许会发掘到其它有趣的书籍。
For instance, I decided to read Louisa May Alcott's Little Women for the first time last year. As I searched for that novel in the library's "A" row, I spotted a bunch of Margaret Atwood books and realized I had never read anything of hers besides The Handmaid's Tale. Soon, I rectified that mistake!
比如说吧,去年我突然想读露意莎·梅·奥尔柯特的《小妇人》。当我在图书馆A(作者名)打头分类中搜寻这本书时,我又发现了一系列玛格丽特·阿特伍德的著作,在这之前除了《女仆传说》,我从未读过她的任何著作。很快,这个错误成为了历史。
The same thing happened in the same library when I put my hands on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which led me to notice Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. The 3-H Club!
同样的故事在同一间图书馆再度上演,当我触及阿道斯·赫胥黎的《美丽新世界》,我又发现了佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿的《凝望上帝》和卡勒德·胡塞尼的《追风筝的人》。啊哈,3H大聚头。
I then had a yen to reread The Time Machine. While searching for it, I spotted a red-covered book called The First Men in the Moon. I knew that H.G. Wells (along with authors such as Jules Verne) was a sci-fi pioneer with 1890s novels such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, but I had never heard of the 1901 Moon. It's now my favorite Wells book.
我一度对《时间机器》上瘾,一再重读。当我在图书馆中搜寻这本书,一本红色封皮的书映入眼帘,书名曰《最早登上月球的人》。我知道H·G·威尔斯(以及作家比如儒勒·凡尔纳)是19世纪90年代科幻小说的领头人物,他的《时间机器》和《星级战争》都是极有名的佳作,但我之前并未听说过他于1901年写就的这本《最早登上月球的人》。现在它成了我最喜欢的威尔斯的书。
No single library contains as many novels as you can choose from for an e-reader. But I have so many titles on my to-read list (including dozens of great recommendations from HuffPost Books commenters!) that I can always find some of those titles on my local library's shelves. And if a bookstore doesn't have a novel I want, I can ask the store to order it. I also buy books online, but sparingly, because I prefer to patronize my town's brick-and-mortar retailers.
电纸书所能提供的书目之丰富,没有任何一家图书馆能够匹敌。但在我的阅读清单上尚有数量庞大的条目(包括几十本赫芬顿邮报推荐的书目),且它们都能在本地的图书馆中找到。如果书店里没有我想要的书目,我可以在请店里帮我采购。我也在线上购书,但多只是为了省钱,我还是更乐意惠顾镇上传统的书商。
Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars. Some radio listeners initially didn't buy TVs after many other radio listeners did. Maybe I'm one of those late-adopter types. And I realize e-readers have some advantages over dead-tree, attached to-each-other pages.
汽车时代到来之后,一些人仍选择驾乘马车出行。电视夺走了许多电台听众,但依然有人热衷于空中电波。也许我就是这种对新事物慢热的人。尽管我也明白电子书能让更多树木免受砍伐之灾,也让阅读时翻页更加流畅。
But at least for now, I'm sticking with print books. There, I said it.
但至少现在,我还是比较爱纸质印刷的书本,说真的。

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