11-27-2012, 07:07 PM | #121 | |
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11-27-2012, 08:57 PM | #122 | |
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I would be curious to know if the article's author would be willing to make the logical extension...that quadriplegics can't read. There are a bunch of people out there who are unable to hold a book in their hands. |
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11-28-2012, 03:23 PM | #123 | |
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Some of those opposed to e-books will grudgingly admit e-boks have a place for people who can't hold a paper book, or whose vision requires the adjustable font. But if you're going to claim that reading an e-book is not reading, then you have no choice - if you want to be rational - to claim that the quadraplegic using an e-reader is in fact not reading at all. If reading from an e-book is not reading, it doesn't suddenly become reading just because you can't use a paper book. |
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11-29-2012, 11:17 PM | #124 |
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The article was pretentious and boring in my opinion. The irony was that the author had a sentence that read " books hold our attention". Sadly, his article failed to hold mine. It read like an undergraduate college essay.
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