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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I'd like someone who can do a real translation to let us know if he was calling all ebook readers "Taliban," or if that referred specifically to the iPad. (It's possible that the difference is unclear in the original, but it's also possible that the meaning just doesn't auto-translate well.)
He has a point, in that e-texts remove the personal qualities we associate with books; it's something the publishing industries are going to need to deal with in a few years--can I hand my favorite series off to my kids? Will they remember them as fondly as I remember my shelves of paperbacks?
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He certainly doesnt think every ebook reader a Taliban.
He is ahighly intelligent man of undisputed integrity (maybe berlusconi and his clowns would disagree.)
I remember that as a teenager I would seek and buy every Sherlock Holmes book but after 20 years they were fading and i felt "betrayed".
Man was i happy when i first discovered an ebook edition, omnibus, of Conan Doyles' works!!!