Thread: Professor blasts e-books over unfulfilled promise
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Old 09-15-2013, 12:17 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
I'm not surprised. An e-book doesn't significantly change the premise of a normal book: offer reading material / be read. If you're going to stick sound and video in it, it becomes a multimedia experience.
Exactly.
And smell and touch are not essential parts of reading any more than dead tree pulp or publishers are.
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