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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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.
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Probably not but I'm sure that people weren't extolling the virtues of TV as a unit to bring the family together before the internet and texting came along. Moviegoers probably didn't extol the virtues of sitting in dark room with strangers and sharing a movie before the TV came about.
When something new comes along that threatens what people know, they will of course realize all the things they loved in the previous technology that they didn't even notice before. I don't think that is a bad thing.
I don't really get the smell argument (unless it's an old book) but I can see how people like the touch of books. When I sometimes read on my iPod touch, some apps have a page curl that is suppose to mimic a real page turn. While it's cute it's never going to be a real page turn. Plus, the fact that iBooks and some other reading apps have those page swipes indicates to me that the makers of those apps probably realize that in order to get some readers into e-Reading, they will have to make e-Reading feel as close to reading a paper book as possible.