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Originally Posted by searcher
Nobody spend money for ..paper. We all buy books to read text not to touch or smell paper.  |
my father regularly buys used books (books he has never heard of by authors he has never heard of, i specify) for the sole reason that he happens to like the cover, or the paper has a nice feel to it, or the editor chose a really handsome font for the body.
he is quite intrigued by my eb1150 and absolutely sees the convenience that etexts represent compared to paper books, and may soon become the happy owner of his own. however nothing could ever replace paper books completely in his life.
it's
not always all about the content. in fact, it's not even *only* about the content when we are talking about digital versions : i cannot read a PG text directly from the site without formatting it first to make it graphically more attractive ; the plain text format is too brutal for me, it ruins the reading experience.