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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Ha. It's possible to dislike something for its actual characteristics, not just for the sake of it being different.
Besides, isn't it muggles who use modern technology, and reject the old ways? I don't recall any Hogwarts students learning spells from dusty, leather bound Kindles. Or even using electricity.
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Muggles had to learn how to use technology because Wizards and Witches hid themselves from the Muggles. The Wizarding world did not want to be called upon to do everything for Muggles. It was a decision made by the Magical Community, not by Muggles.
She is the author so she gets to chose how the books are sold. There is no denying that.
To choose to not allow people who want to read her words on an e-reader the oppertunity to do so because her books were meant to be read from paper while allowing her stories to be reinterpreted through film is, to me, hypocritical. She is willing to allow the content of the books to be altered, and they have been altered, in order to make the movies and then say that the experience of reading a book on an e-reader is some how different then reading a paper book and should not happen is just wrong. The movies alter the story and take away the joy of visualizing her world based on her words as you read the story. The e-book tells her story as she wrote it, word for word.
I am find with the movies but talk about wanting her stories read in a specific manner to preserve the experience when she has made millions by allowing the experience to be altered is just silly.
Again, she is the owner, creator, author. She gets to be silly and make decisions that she feel is right for her. That doesn't mean that I can't scratch my head and wonder what she is thinking.