E-book VS Real Books

When E-books and Real books compete, I'm supposing E-books win hands down. Well at least for me, E-books shall win regardless. Here are some top reasons why E-books are getting more popular among general readers:

1. It's easy to purchase an e-book and you will receive your e-books immediately after payment has been made. All thanks to the power of the internet and online book sales.

2. If you don't fancy buying your books and are running a little bit low on cash, you have another alternative of getting your e-book which is to search and download books for free. Simply run a search on "book title + free ebook download" and pray that you'll somehow find a link to click and download for free.

I have to admit, it takes a little extra searches before you can find that 'free download links'. Some shareware sites need you to register as a member and some fees are needed. That's the kind of site you need to stay away from if you are wickedly frugal and really want to get that must-have e-book of yours for the FREE! Be patient on this one and you'll get your free e-book download somehow.

3. Some people don't really enjoy reading right from their computers and there is a solution for that. For years now, they are readily available in the market what is known as an eReader or in short it's a plain portable device that allows you to read your e-books at a go without literally have any laptop to read it. You can easily stash any eReader in your bag or handbags and it's really that mobile.

Personally, I really love the eReader version from Barnes and Nobles called as the Nook! It looks sleek and is rated as the New Best Gadget for 2009 by the TechCrunch Crunchies Award. To have a look at Nook and probably purchase it, click at the link here. Currently, I don't own a Nook just yet and probably I just should if someone can get it for me if you happen to visit the US. If I'm not mistaken, there are still no delivery for purchases coming from Asia. That's sad. =(

Anyhow, I just love e-books and you can always get them on a much bargain price from sites like Amazon.com or Ebay too. If you are not into online shopping, your best bet to get your hands on a real cheap books are probably on the nearest flee market near you. With that said, E-books win hands down,my friend!

1Utama BookCrossing Zone

Have you come across the BookCrossing banner somewhere at Ground Floor of 1Utama? There is a little spot with a white cupboard and a couple of sofas surrounding the area. If you've seen this place, it's called as the BookCrossing zone.

Still have no idea what is BookCrossing? I've not much of an idea about it either! Haha.

From what I've gathered BookCrossing is a place where you get to 'free' your books and pass it around for other people to read it. It's about sharing your books to other people by using BookCrossing as the main platform for it. FYI, BookCrossing is known as the World's biggest free bookclub! At least, that's what they claimed! =P

However, from my observation, most people ended up sitting around on the sofas to relax their sore feet out of shopping instead of actually 'hanging out' over at the zone to read books that are supposedly to be shared in the white cupboard. Worse was the amount of books that are stored in the cupboard. From the last time I saw it, that was during Christmas last year, there were somewhere less than 20 books perhaps inside there.

I still think the Malaysian public are not really aware of the whole point 1Utama is placing the BookCrossing zone in their mall. Anyways, most of us have no idea what is BookCrossing in the first place. If only we can hype the whole BookCrossing agenda to the public, perhaps I would be reading more 'free' books by now. Haha.

On that note, I still have my novels to be 'given' away and let's hope people will come to this blog and probably purchase one or two books from me. =)

To find out more on BookCrossing Malaysia, click here.