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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Thanks for the transscript. Let's take it a bit at a time.
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Summary: He doesn't think ebooks and ereaders are for him, but he's still found out about them, looked at ereaders, and got his first published book re-published as a free ebook.
That sounds like the actions of a pretty good chap, to me. Who knows? If he starts using an ebook reader, he might find he likes it. He doesn't seem to be totally opposed to the idea.
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That's great, pdurrant - thank you. I agree that Rooney isn't actually being closedminded. At worst, he seems a bit ambivalent... even if he's buying into the canard that ebooks will eliminate dead tree books. (And that could be because he likes being argumentative, even when there's no argument.)
Basically, Rooney's shtick is half entertainment value, half nostalgia. It always has to be taken with a grain of salt, since I suspect he doesn't believe half of what he says.
But I do think he might have been more favourable towards the concept of ebooks if he'd been shown someone, say, like
pietrocrazy's gran, who had "lost the ability to do the one thing she really loved, which was reading," until her life was transformed when she was given a Kindle DX. That is an
awesome story.