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Derek:
Kudos for actively conversing with the author of that spurious article. So many of these type of musings just make me shake my head. Things are really great with neat technology and all the promise of our shiny, jet-pack future, but really I am a luddite, but I want to keep that quiet, so I'll merely rail against how technology is impinging on my worldview, couching it in such terms that I just sound like a fuddy-duddy, which seems more forgivable than being an implacable moron.
Based on interactions on a thread here, I think the one about TOR free content, tracked down an author whom I admire and asked him his opinion of our coming Digital Overlords. While he expressly thanked me for supporting his lifestyle, and while lauding every possible technological advance in the world of pleasure sailing, he called everyone who downloads or purchases a digital text a potential crook. Said author will only release electronic forms of his manuals when absolutely forced to, and sees such formats as too tempting for all the lowlifes(lowlives?) out therer with internet access.
Such a brilliant technical mind, and the guy acts like the people WHO PAID FOR HIS BOAT want nothing but to rip him off.
Absolutely amazing.
As for embracing new formats, am nearly to the point that I refuse to read from those big bundles of paper with ink printed on them. Find my SONY Reader so much more cozy and convenient. When they make a colour, coffee-table sized Reader, will be pleading with "The Warden" to get one.
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