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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Why does that offend you so?
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It's not that it offends me. But to me, reading is
reading. Not smelling or touching or hearing, just
reading.
When I get into a story, it doesn't matter whether it is on paper or a screen, or whether I'm in front of a roaring fire or on a commuter train, day or night, the beach or the laundromat, summer or winter... I don't notice
any of that stuff when I'm
in the story.
To me, anyone who can only read when they are in a particular sensory environment... don't seem to be fully
tuning into the
story itself as much as they are tuning into (or failing to tune out) everything else around them. And I hope that doesn't offend any of you, that's just my feeling.
So when someone tells me they refuse to try an e-book, because they won't give up their sensory environment, I realize that we are not speaking about the same things. I am speaking about
reading stories. They are speaking about a specific combination of sensory experiences that they collectively call "enjoying a good book," but which is
not the same thing as "reading stories." Note that I am not criticizing what they do, just accepting that they are two different things.
I don't want to push e-books at someone who is more concerned about the comfort of their armchair or the sweetness of their tea, or how an electronic device might upset that delicate balance. I want to promote e-books to someone who appreciates the advantages of e-books to
reading stories.
See, I figure e-books are an inevitability... sooner or later, most everyone will be using e-books of some kind or another. There's no point rushing everyone into it. So I just concentrate on the people who are likely to get something positive out of the experience now, and let the big marketers worry about how to swing the masses their way.
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
If they ever did completely replace paper books, well, thats not a world I'd like to live in..
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As someone who feels the drama and wonder of a book are the same whether it is on paper or a screen, I could never feel that way. Give me the stories, in any format, and we're good.