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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Apparently you need a refresher course on what "luddite" means in the modern usage. Luddites are not opposed to all technology (if they were, they would be in the woods digging up roots with their bare hands and no clothes). Luddites are against new technology (and usually automated or computerized technology). If you ban ereaders and not paper books, you are indeed a luddite.
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Well, technically luddites were opposed to the use of new technology in their factories.
But, again, these owners aren't *opposed* to e-readers or laptops (even assuming that they count as new technology). As I suggested, they probably use laptops themselves. They just don't want customers using them in their coffee shops. And presumably they aren't supporting books over e-readers; they have probably said nothing about books because people reading books aren't taking up their tables (and it has been a long time since I saw someone in a coffee shop reading an actual book, come to think of it).