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Originally Posted by theducks
BR You know how to use a reader (and a computer). You were probably an early(ish) adopter. By 'early', before Kindle/Nook became a household words.
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were - Second-person singular simple
past tense indicative of
to be.
I was 20+ years ago. I still carry my palm pilot with its dog eared text files and I still have my TI Hex calculator from the early '80s next to my monitor.
I shelled out for an early model Kindle, it spat the dummy within 6 months. After getting nowhere with a long tedious email exchange with Amazing Not it ended up in the garden shed, it's still there! I don't have a smart phone because they don't work at my 'rural retreat' - but the featureless phone I bought 10+ years ago in Guangzhou for $25 still works, including at my 'rural retreat'.
I have no idea how to use an 'modern' ereader, that's why I rarely respond to device related issues. Most of my leisure reading is non contemporary, very little of which is available in any e-format. One of the things with which I'm blessed is some excellent second hand bookshops. I like rummaging around in them to find lost treasure and gems.
I like even better to liberate them by leaving them on bus seats, park benches etc; with an anonymous note telling the finder what I thought of them. An e-reader would deprive me of even that small pleasure, could even end up in a US prison cell for doing it - free enterprise, free trade - balderdash.
BR