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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
I think you're probably the exception rather than the norm.
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I dunno about that. I'm even younger than her, and I learned how to use a computer when I was 3 years old (my dad was a network admin - he knew it was the future). I was literally born into the computer screen.
It still gives me problems. I get eye strain, and in rare cases headaches. And it's actually getting more noticeable as I'm getting older. I've noticed myself gradually tuning down the brightness on my screen over the past couple years in an attempt to reduce the strain (it doesn't really work, but it makes me feel like I'm doing something), and taking more frequent breaks.
I've had a small handful of e-books on my computer for years that I have never read because I just didn't want to do it on a computer screen. Thus the search for an e-reader.
As to the OP, in regards to older people being more likely to adopt e-readers (and reading in general), I had an interesting insight today in class.
We had a reading assignment that was written in 1949. Several people in my class were loud about how much they hated this particular assignment. I really liked it, personally. It was eloquent, comprehensive. Turns out this is exactly what much of my class
didn't like about it.
They're used to sound bites. Simple, 5-word sentences that require no punctuation, and frequently use broken-down grammar. Stuff you read without actually having to read it. Stuff that says a lot more of nothing than it does of something.
People haven't always written like that (and many still don't, of course). But the eloquent sentence has become "dated" to today's teens and twenty-somethings. I'm not surprised most of them aren't interested in e-readers.