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Originally Posted by jgaiser
MetaFilter is a site I visit *at least* once a day. Most of the time the conversations are intelligent, thoughtful, and informative. This one is indeed *head explodes*....  And the funny thing is that some of most unintelligent remarks are from folks that I'd always admired for their sensibility. What is it about DTBs that turns some people into Luddites? Maybe that much loved book odor is a mind-bending drug...  |
I think it's a combination of Get Off My Lawn and
New Technology is Evil.
(How many of us eReaders hated eBooks until, you know, we caved in and bought one? I'd guess a fair percentage.
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My fav quote was:
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It also makes me blind with rage that people who obviously read very little are going to drive books out of existence. If you think a Kindle is even remotely close to a replacement for a book, you can't have actually read more than 10 real physical books ever.
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It combines all the heady bouquet of self-righteous faux intellectualism with a spicy undercurrent of persecution complex.