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Uau! Outstanding analysis you have made and for sure quite correct too.
I think, the I have put it in a too black/white mood, when we know that everything is just a continuous flow of different levels of grey.
Once more, I must say I agree with almost what you say and I’m just pointing 3 things:
1 - “There is no "right" way to read - reading is an entirely individual experience (as you yourself relate) and therefore the means by which one does it, the state of mind in which one does it, and the pleasure one extracts from it are just as individual. The only "it" to be had is so personal that objective measurement is impossible.”
The “it “ I was trying to talk about is the one that comes from the “individual experience”, and that does conduct into loving the story or not, if that does not happen in a consistent manner, there is no way one can open ones head and insert the books inside it (sorry for the example, it’s just a figure of speech)…
2 - “The content doesn't exist without the medium in which to place it and relate to it.”
Do not agree in the concept that makes it so important, before men begun to write, there where stories told from father to son or from tellers to other people - the medium was the talking word, something with almost no “technology” involved;
3 - “Personally, I'm not like you, manchuia, in that an ereader has not kick started a reading habit. It has probably prompted me to do something I have been meaning to do for some time - read "classics" that are in the public domain but which I would otherwise have seen expense for in pbook form.”
You could have done that a way back - Project Gutenberg exists since 1971 - the content existed in digital format for at least more then 10 years now (Project Gutenberg was slow in the beginning but has come to increase the number of content made available per year in the last years).
Anyway, outstanding good analysis Marc, and I do think we 3 are talking about the same thing.
Best regards,
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