People use mostly one out of three communication channels: voice-ears (Auditive person), gestures-eyes (Visual person), other senses-whole body (Kinestethic person).
You can guess them going to a car sale and watching their behaviour: A will give a quick glance to the car and quickly ask questions to the salesman; V will peer at the car, while walking around it; K will sit in the car, touch the wheel, feel the gear, smell the cockpit...
The quote here is typical of a K-type, who feels the urge to touch, smell, hear pages while they turn.
Quote:
But it's not going to happen on the Sony Reader. 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. You'll never know where you are in the story, or how much of it is left. You won't have the cover artwork, to steal inside your head and become a lifelong reminder of the book it encased.
And you can't turn the pages. I spent half an hour reading Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (the first book to be installed) with my fingers itching to turn a page; "turn" one electronically, and the screen goes blank before the next page is displayed.
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The author of those lines thinks everybody is kinestethic just because he is....
That may be a limit of e-book readers: they suit just Visual people.
Auditives will always prefer audiobooks (or will they read aloud their kindle?), kinestethics will always go for printed books.