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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
I posted on my blog about my recent visit to Borders and how it felt like a museum, but the most important thing was my 10-year-old daughter, a huge reader, was way more interested in the Sony reader that didn't work--she'd trade ALL her books for an e-reader. Her sample comment:
“I like the smell of paper, but I think this would be easier because you can read any book you want, and you don’t have to carry 3,000 books everywhere you go.” And she didn’t even read the marketing material. Her generation gets it.
The whole thing is at http://hauntedcomputer.blogspot.com
I believe her generation will not have the nostalgia that causes so many people to get fightin' mad over the idea their paper books will be taken away.
Scott Nicholson |
DON"T buy her an ebook reader. She should learn to enjoy REAL BOOKS!
She should also learn to use a slide rule and use a dial phone.
I'm at 60 now, and many of the things I did in the past are no longer around. Some good. Some bad.
The kids today will read from "something" other than a paper book. If they read at all is great.
I lived for the library. Summertime I would walk a long way home with a HEAVY load of books, shifting them from one arm to the other.
Book stores were a vacation for me.
But from the first time I read in a book of someone electronically reading something, I wanted to do so too. But that was just science fiction. Heck, computers were for MAJOR universities, BIG businesses, and the military!
The point - How, and on what, people will read is something that'll evolve over time. And when books can be downloaded into our heads some will way "But it just feels better to hold an ebook in your hands!"
The only question I have concerns this;
Scott Nicholson
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And this;
"Outside, I asked my daughter about the e-reader, an object she’d heard about but never seen." July 20, 2010
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