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Originally Posted by Waflicka
This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm well within the demographic at 21 years old, and an English major -- so naturally myself and all of my friends are prolific readers. I prefer readers and one friend prefers audiobooks, but all of my other friends within this age bracket prefer books. Most have boxes of them in their garages for lack of storage space! Frankly, I think that the insinuation by earlier posters that people who prefer paper must not be prolific readers is quite offensive. Just because you prefer a screen, it doesn't mean that everybody else should -- some prolific readers are tactile readers, too. Get over it. The level of arrogance in this thread is a disgusting picture of this forum...
This, coupled with the obvious lack of reading comprehension when people answer basic questions in threads, makes me very, very doubtful of my decision to join. You're folks who can't see the forest for the trees, and half of you seem to think the trees are shrubs, anyway. *shakes head*
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Sorry if this seems arrogant, but welcome to the real world.
This forum is made up of a wide assortment of people ranging in ages from just legal to very old, of a variety of economic classes and political beliefs, different genders, different religions, different cultures, different sexual orientations, different educational levels, different levels of comprehension of the English language, and we come from all around the world. The only common threads we all have are that we are human and that we enjoy reading. We all bring our attitudes and preconceptions to any forums we participate in. You may not agree with me, I might not agree with you. You might take offense at what I post, and vice versa. That's what happens on a forum such as this.
You are making sweeping generalizations based upon limited interactions with small subsets of the membership here. I hope you take a step back, take a breath, and realize that you're not always going to agree with what people post here. That we're not somehow less whatever-annoys-you just because we share the love of reading. We all get annoyed at one time or another by comments posted by others because we think that they are arrogant, or stupid, or condescending, or too sarcastic or whatever. But that's just the way people come off at times, sometimes without even realizing it. Sometimes it is deliberate and then you have to decide if it is worth calling them on it, or if it is better to just ignore their comments (and them) if they annoy you.
