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Old 03-13-2008, 11:46 AM   #35
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by llasram View Post
I thought you old fogies (Joking!) would be the ones most attached to your paper books. Hardly a statistical sample so far, but perhaps the age distribution here is more skewed along the lines of readers-by-age than along the lines of technophiles-by-age.
As one of the fogies (not joking), I'd say that a lot depends on the way you were raised, and the times.

I, for instance, was raised during the Apollo era 60s... was into science fiction in my early teens (watched a few of the original Star Treks the night they were aired, if my parents let me stay up)... and played with tech-related toys like 150-in-1 electronics kits from Radio Shack. So I was prepped for electronic devices at an early age.

As I got older, I learned frugality, and saw the value of using electronic devices to replace older, less efficient tools and processes. So I was using my first PDAs to write my first novel, in the early 90s.

For my first e-books I was getting ahold of text-based classics like War of the Worlds, purchased at computer stores and conventions, and downloading them to read on my Casio Zoomer.
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