Rediscovering the Joy of Reading HARD or PRINTED COPIES
Posted on May 29, 2007
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Nowadays, readers have two options, either to read or subscribe to (1) digital or soft copies, or (2) printed or hard copies for almost any reading material, be they newspapers, magazines, journals, books, etc. Over time, I have embraced option #1. With the click of the mouse, every bits and pieces of information that I wanted, at any given time and place, would be there. Oh, the wonders of internet—that was always my mind set.
I hardly ever read newspapers nor magazines anymore in printed form, sans for their crossword puzzles and sudoku games (sometimes I would even go online for these games). Most of my kids, however, still prefer hard copies, when it comes to bestsellers and their favorite magazines.
A few days ago, Regina Posadas of Moms Today, a magazine that is released every other month, emailed me a scanned copy of the article (see below) for which she interviewed me a few weeks ago. It was in the Housekeeping Section of the May-June issue, which was already off the press.
found in page 43 of Moms Today (Note: Picture of the House is NOT ours)
I emailed the scanned copy to my kids, and was surprised to find out later that Vince and BA went to National Book Store to buy a copy. Impressive, I said, glossy, classy, just like the magazines that my girls read. And boy, was I amazed! Reading page after page, it seemed like I was transported back in time, when reading printed magazines and books gave ultimate joy.
Back to the present, it was like seeing in hard copies the articles that I would surf in the internet, right before my very eyes. Like holding in my hands copies of 50 or so articles that I would otherwise have surfed in the net. Articles were just right, pictures were perfect, even the ads seemed appealing.
That was when I rediscovered the joy of reading printed or hard copies. In the past, I would always chide my kids for wanting to buy printed copies of books and magazines that were otherwise available in the net. We still maintain subscriptions for 2 newspapers and the Readers Digest. Week in and week out, I would find around the house copies of different glossy magazines, local and imported, and of course, bestellers and novels, bought by my kids from their savings.
Speaking of hard or printed copies, three of my kids update their Starbucks diaries regularly, instead of using digital diaries. Son J. Angelo has questions about trusting memories to a web application, like storage of pictures.
Monica, who is in Law School, just loves reading, reading, and reading. She prints out her resource materials, which she could read from the net—she would highlight the pages with different colors (her way of understanding her lessons and cases). Books and magazines are everywhere in the house. “Printed versions can never be obsolete”, she insists Hmmm, even the smell of the books and magazines is a delight. You can carry them everywhere, in school, at work, in the car, in the train, or even in the toilet, one of the kids mumbled.
And my kids are right.
By the way, Moms Today is a light read, is balanced, diverse, and has all things that moms and would-be moms would be interested about—family+home (parenting, nutrition, housekeeping, recipes), life stages (pregnancy+birth, newborns+babies, toddlers+preschoolers, school-age kids, tweens+teens), fun with learning (crafts, books+stuff) and many more. A copy costs P100, not bad, considering its quality of content, information and sharing, and the material used. I will not be surprised to see information of San Diego cosmetic dentists in the next issues.
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Dine Racoma is Sexy Mom, a Filipina doing what she likes best—writing, her passion. She writes freelance, does research, advises on new media, and manages a virtual assistance office for home-based jobs. A mother of 7 (what joy!) foremost, a wife, MIL, grandma to 2 pretty girls and an angel in heaven, sister, daughter, friend. Was in the corporate world for 27 years, the first 5 as Executive Secretary to an affiliate of the country’s biggest drug chain, and the last 22 as an international civil servant in an international development bank with HQ in Manila. Traveled extensively to many countries bringing about rich experiences and lessons learned to share with dear Readers. All these—in The D Spot
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i agree, mommy dine,iba pa rin ang hard copy. i have lots of ebooks. nagluluha ang mata ko pag masyado nang matagal.
wow! you’re in a mag! i’m happy for you. will get a copy too
SexyMom: thanks, Lady Cess. sometimes the glare also does not suit me, esp if for long hours.
Whether it’s a hard copy or not, it does not matter as long as it’s a reading material!
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SexyMom: oh, that’s good, Kyels. btw, i would like to see your photographs in print.
Though nowadays you can almost read everything online, I still prefer to read from the book (hardcopy)
SexyMom: true, verns.
when it comes to books, i prefer the real one, but newspapers i go to the internet, except for sunday editions which i find to be must reads because of all the features in them.
SexyMom: newspapers come in abundance in the net, you are right, Zherwin.
Ang ganda talaga ng pagkadepict ng bahay natin. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SexyMom: yo, BA!
Great post, Dine!
I am glad to know from the responses old fashioned books are not about to go out of fashion.
Iba ang libro. Can you dogear an online book? highlight lines that catch ur fancy? embrace it at the end of reading in sheer gratitude and delight?
I love books. Including bargain books that have passed someone else’s hands. There’s a bit of history in those used books di ba? I like the feeling they have been read by an unknown book lover. I like it when they come with marginal notes in an unknown handwriting.
SexyMom: my dear Annamanila, my daughter Monica wants to tell you that she really admires your writing style. she reads with fondness your reference to dog-earring a book, highlighting it, and embracing it—she does them all.
i still have plenty of unread books. if only i have the time. it’s been months since i first read the chapter 1 of Paulo Coelho’s Zahir. I’m still midway. In an uninterrupted pace, i think i can read it all in a day or two.
I also prefer the printed ones. That is why i have plenty of magazines (most are unread).
SexyMom: unread? my kids would have devoured them!
I do agree with your kids Tita Dine. Ako even if marami nang mga e-books and stuff, iba pa rin ang hard copy kasi kahit saan mo dalhin pwede (kahit sa banyo habang… you know hehe). Iba rin kasi may sentimental value kapag hardcopy. la lang po hehe
good day to you and your family!
SexyMom: my kids will find a friend in you, Mica.
I still love the good ‘ol paperback. The feel, the look and the smell of a book is priceless.
Plus, I have never enjoyed reading e-books. Ugh!
SexyMom: yes, Jhay, my kids agree—they please the senses (touch, smell, see).
Congratulations Dine for a successful interview. It must be nice to see your name and words published.
I agree, although it is so easy to find interesting things to read on-line, I still enjoy reading hard copies. It’s been a while since I last bought a book but I enjoy buying different kinds of magazines.
SexyMom: thanks, Rach. yes, my name was there. actually, i copied the full text in my next post.
wow, baliktad pa pala kayo ng mga kids mo tita. hehe sige try ko bumili nung mag na sinasabi mo. take care. btw, my blog is temporarily inaccessible. as per i.ph there has been problems due to the migration. sana maayos na.
SexyMom: so, that’s the reason why i could not get through your site. i thought you were on maternity leave already. btw, am inviting you also to be a member of PMN. once the baby sees light, you will already be qualified, then you can write about your first experiences in mommyhood.
Pag books I still prefer the hard copy syempre, you can read kahit nakahiga ka pa or nakapila sa Crispy Creme…hehehe.
SexyMom: you’re right, how can you read when lying down or in cue at CC, with the laptop.
Ay, iba pa rin ang printed page.Basta
By the way, is that Christine Jacob on the cover of the magazine?
SexyMom: Christine Jacobs, indeed. i was surprised, she already has 4 kids.
There are online publications I subscribe to – NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and etc., but I also enjoy the feel of some glossy magazines like those in photography, and of course, Vanity Fair, which my brother sends over from NYC. However, anything over 1000 words, I’d much prefer a hard copy of.
Congrats for having been featured in this magazine, Dine!
SexyMom: thanks, Eric. i would love to see your photographs in glossy mags. i guess maybe soon, they will be in travel mags!
Sexy Mom, I work in software development where specs are churned out constantly and Im still not used to just read them online. I insist on printing them out where, like your daughter, I can underline, highlight or comment to my hearts content.
But I also advocate recycling so our office hired a secure shredding facility which also recycles papers.
And I can never think of buying digital copies of books. I still go for the real deal.
SexyMom: you’re like my eldest daughter—her law books and resource materials are very colorful, she spends a fortune for highlighters.
I have always preferred hard copies as well. Grissom of CSI said it perfectly “When you read from a computer you lean forward but when you read a book you lean back” (I was paraphrasing. hehe)
Although I do read a lot of things on my laptop, I can’t read lengthy articles… my eyes give up on me.
Cool interview. What international organization did you retire from? and where do you do problogging?
SexyMom: adb; research: i have some principals from US; problogging: soon, i will be announcing it n my blog.
i also looooove reading actual books and prefer them over online reading materials.. sometimes i catch myself with eyes around an inch away from the monitor so i don’t think it’s such a nice idea to have everything online.. but of course, reading blogs is a different story..
SexyMom: you hit it right—reading blogs in hard copies! how? how?
Sexy mom, for me a i prefer hard copies specially in reading specification of my projects since I work in construction.. Nice post.. it does not look like a sponsored one..
SexyMom: i wonder how it would be in construction if hard copies were done away with.
I still prefer to curl up with the printed copy if given a choice rather than read the digital ones though I do read both formats regularly. I just can’t lie down and hold my iBook like a paperback right? I think of ebooks/didital copies as backups or alternates.
SexyMom: sometimes, just sometimes, i do the same with my SexyMac.
i prefer hard copies too, but since we move around a lot, its impractical for me to lug around my library wherever we go. (besides, books here in the US costs 3x what they cost in pinas! too expensive!)
which is why i turned to ebooks. they only occupy a few gigs on my pc and i can use my pda phone to read them even in bed at night while lying down (di na kailangan ng night light hehe). and if i don’t like a particular book, i just delete it from my virtual memory
plus, i get most of them for free 
but if i read a really really good book in ebook form, i make it a point to buy the printed copy from the bookstore and read it again so i can underline/ highlight/ comment on the parts that i love or interest me most. so yes, i still lug around a library wherever i go, but at least its just a mini one, hehe.
SexyMom: that’s an advantage we have her, books are very much cheaper.
and oh, i am amazed at how well you adjust to your reading needs.
wow
you deserve it!!
that`s a very nice magazine!!
SexyMom: thanks, Ghee.
Suddenly I remember back then when you printed my Friendster testimonials just so you could read them anywhere. HAHAHAHA
SexyMom: yes, BA, i remember having regularly printed out your and your siblings’ friendster testimonials, bringing them with me when i go out of the country, just so i could catch up with all of you…those days when dsl and broadband were unknown to many, and when hotels charged a fortune for connection.
As far as newspapers go, I read the online editions and hop from one newspaper to another. Only hubby reads the printed version.
My daughters are bookworms and aside from clothes, the next biggest thing they splurge on is books. Despite their being techie savvy, e-books have not yet caught on around our home (maybe because we do not travel that often). Somehow though, there is a different pleasure derived from picking up a book and turning its pages.
My 2 girls are into Starbucks diaries also but I carry my entire life in my PDA. I would be lost without it. Next project: my very own laptop.
i still prefer hard copies. they carry an authority that digital copies will never have.
I prefer hard cover books as the recycle paper….
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