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Not um, fan digital flames, but is "Jumper" an e-book? Is it's Sequel?
These are general points of clarification.
My gameplan these days is to watch flicks that are adaptations, then be amazingly surprised at the rich levels of sub-text woven by an author in a book. Have yet to see "Jumper", and was not sure how big of a re-print its progenitor received.
The reason I ask about the original is that, well, if it is not available as a digital test, it rather points up the frustration of all digital text fans. The number or texts out there is mind-numbingly hit or miss.
I have made a choice and a conscious effort to eschew any form of book but a digital one. My close friends know that CONNECT gift cards make great gifts. Foolish or sagacious, am hoping to embrace the digital age.
Now that I am not so mobile in my life and have decent internet (and a physical address), no longer lurk about the DVD bargain bins; I can rent it or watch it online or on Satan's window. Feel the same way with music; after twenty years of switching formats and a decade of lugging discs about in ammo cases or ballistic nylon, am happy to have it all on a drive the size of a bible. Sadly, there is a fight about whether I ever owned the actual item, or merely paid a fee for rights--Did I buy a pony, or just pay it for the time on its back?
My point is that on a forum named "Mobile Read," most folks here are interested in the digital equivalent of paper texts. We may be silly or militant, but that is the choice we made, based on vague promises and advances in technology that we hoped would evolve. As such, when we cannot receive the media that we crave, we get a bit cranky.
Maybe we just get angry when the gods of our cult never land, but just fly by and dumb a little "blue ice" for our trouble.
(please do not infer that I am saying that any organisation or individual that ever offered digital text is specifically referenced by that last statement. Our longing for digital texts just reminded me of the cargo cult phenomenon)
Oh, and not to re-iterate, but I want to say what that other fellow said.
*insert emotional modifier here*
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