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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
It's already been mentioned, but in my experience, when talking about Ereaders to friends who have never used one, pretty much ALL of them were vehemently against ereaders, staing the usual reasons why:
1: you can't replace the look and feel of a book
2: I'd hate reading on an ereader
3: It's just "not the same"
4: I'm too old fashioned to use an ereader
and various other reason like that.
However once they actually try one for a bit ( a lot of them got free ereaders with mobile contracts), without exception, for the purposes of reading novels, they now prefer using ereaders by far.
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In contrast to this, I have several ladies I know who have e-readers and end up doing most of their reading via paper books. Both who come to mind right away are big library patrons. They got out of the habit briefly when they first got their readers, but soon reverted to library books and paperback sales. The one uses her reader if a book is free or really cheap; the other barely uses it at all. It sits unused most of the time. There's another lady in the same reading group who has mentioned she doesn't use hers but I don't know the details.
For some there is habit involved and perhaps a bit of social reasons (library is familiar, gets them out...they know the librarian...) My neighbor has a Kindle Fire. She never uses it. She's afraid she'll break it (I kid you not.) She won't take it anywhere because "it's expensive and I might lose it or it will get stolen." She does a lot of word games. I've sent her links to those same games (freebies) and books and so on. She has them all loaded faithfully and still buys the paper books with the word games.
It just doesn't catch on with some people. She doesn't use her good china either. "It's worth a lot of money. I'm not taking a chance on losing a piece because it gets broken."
There you have it. The human hoarding mind.
