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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Two big problems with ebooks:
1. You can't have a shelf full of books to impress people.
2. There's nothing for an author to sign.
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Where are the people who are impressed by shelves full of books? Can they please come to my house and be impressed? I have 5 huge bookshelves bulging with books and boxes hidden away in storage with the ones that don't fit in the shelves. And I have donated boxes of books to the local nursing home every year for the past 20 years.
The absence of a physical book is not a big problem - for me that is the main advantage of ebooks.
I totally missed the collecting autographs craze that my friends went through as children. I've never understood what that's all about? If I meet an author I admire and manage to have a discussion with them I can certainly remember that without a scribble in a book.
Or is the signature supposed to impress someone too?
Please tell me this thread was supposed to be a joke?
