Some interesting stuff there, and also some very stupid assumptions.
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Nobody is ever going to read Tolstoy on this fatuous device. It's an electronic simulation of a page, but it'll never convince you it's a book, to be read by your sentient eyes and brain. It doesn't have the solidity, the pages, the tactile companionship of a book.
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Everyone has a right to prefer a physical book to an electronic one. But assuming that because this particular writer doesn't like the feel of an e-book means that no-one will ever read Tolstoy using it... that is not only stupid but also insulting
By the way, since I bought my Cybook I started reading Proust for the first time. Of course I could have done it any time, but it just happens that I saw it as a free download and finally decided to give it a try. And I'm loving it, tactile companionship or not.