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Originally Posted by faithbw
However, what he said isn't really very different from people in my life who, for now, will not read e-Books. There are lots of people who like the feel of pulp books and feel that reading from a pulp book doesn't just include reading the text but holding the book, smelling the book, turning the pages, etc...
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I suspect Andy, like a lot of people, was simply parroting the same pro-paper/anti-ebook mantra that his research invariably dug up... before ebooks, no one was talking in glowing terms about "the feel, the smell, the way you hold a book in your hands." Now, it's the boilerplate "democratic response," made all the more empty by its lack of originality or variety.
Andy's spot simply reconfirms the existence of the boilerplate... or, more accurately, his discovery of the boilerplate as something else to direct his brand of humor.