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Originally Posted by applesauce
This is beyond rude. So does he get to call people who use wheel chairs or glasses or walking frames names. What about those who read braile. Are they all banned from there as well. He is an out and out idiot not to know the world kindles have opened up for the disabled. Those with vision issues those with limited mobility and or strength in their hands. Somebody needs to point all this out to him, It isnt just a cute toy for some people.
applesauce
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I am really echoing that which Applesauce has already said.
My friend and I used to love reading, but we both had to give it up a few years back, as I could no longer hold anything other than a very small paperback, due to a disability in my hands and arms and my friend through failing eyesight.
The Kindles that we have bought have given us the freedom to read again and read again we are doing.
This man has made me so angry with his comments. Would he have everyone who can no longer use a physical book, for whatever reason, lose the freedom that these devices offer with their light-weight and variable text sizes?
Let us hope he never has to find out what it is like to be denied the freedom to read as my friend and I and countless others likes us have.
As for Kindles and similar devices stopping people talking about books - that is utter tosh! We talk about the books we have read and discuss the subject matter all the time. For that matter, what on earth does he think we are all doing on this very forum?
I think this man is living in cloud-cuckoo land.
Long live the E-Reader!
