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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
E-readers, tablets, print, whatever. It doesn't matter where technology takes us. Tech is just a tool for me. I love books, period. Whatever way they're delivered, I'll read till I croak.
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I'm minded of the William Shatner trekkie SNL skit.
It may be fun to waste a few spare minutes pondering the imponderable but the bottom line is that it's all about the books, not the tech. CNET being a tech news site, they tend to see everything as transient. And they're right...in the long term.
In the long term dedicated reader devices will be marginalized and vanish.
In the long term ebooks as a content distribution mechanism will be deprecated and vanish.
In the long term, the sun goes nova and the earth burns.
The short term is all anybody and anything gets.
Might as well make the most of what we have, no?
So start working your way through your TBR list folks; not every "analyst" report or traffic-drawing post needs dissection. It's not as if their track record is particularly good...