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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
Did you not read the rest of my post? Way to cherry pick out a part of it and be outraged.
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People who look for signs of elitism will always find them, justifiably or not, whereas people who look for content will often be rewarded. Reason enough to sidestep the perils of inductive reasoning, which your initial post did nicely (though some who commented on it did not).
Back to it:
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similarity to the look of a printed page to eInk's list of advantages. It isn't only that the screen looks better in direct light. It's also that the matte surface and absence of backlighting lend themselves to reading with less eyestrain, and also to people's shared experience of reading books. The eReader's avoidance of other purposes is serious in the sense of compelling users to read by design; the screen choices are serious in the sense of maximizing the amount of time people can continue to read without eye strain. The aesthetic reproduction of readers' past experience is welcome though will likely die eventually with the generations who now share it.
One thing I'd like to see in tablets generally is the emergence of the matte screen as an option. Samsung's netbooks and ultralights are fabulous for that reason. Perhaps their tablet for the Kindle will be as well.
I'm using
serious as a synonym for
single-minded, by the way -- which is fully justifiable, as a brief walk through anyone's local Merriam-Webster's will show. I'm not using it as a vague cultural distinction that is abused even more by those who hate it than those who embrace it.
The particular fit of the eReader to its purpose is what interests people at the moment. We're experiencing the very, very late migration to digital of what should have been the easiest and earliest medium to do so (delayed, perhaps, by screen tech and by people's equation of color with progress). The eReader is a veteran's point of entrance to the medium, as the CD player once was for people with shelves of records and tapes.
It's often been that way in terms of cultural trends: Music and art, then lit.