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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Sigh, you people really need to get over your obsession with only reading on a one note machine. Ebooks and ereading is alive, well, and more than likely growing since most of us are reading on our phones, and tablets and we are reading more than ever before.
In your own way you people are just as much dinasaurs as the price fix BPH-5. You refuse to be flexible, you refuse to change, and you are the minority. So stick with your eink machines til they all die, the rest of us will continue marching on happily reading on whatever devices we have that can display ebooks, play music, make phone calls etc.
The only thing Amazon is guilty of is giving people what they want, all in one convenient place, at prices we are willing to pay. There is nothing illegal or destructive about that since we are the ones making the purchasing decisions.
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Well, I do so love a nice reasoned argument ......
I suppose I am a "you people", so if I could be permitted a comment or two........
Ummm.... obsessed? .........No. I just prefer a purpose-made device, and different ones for different circumstances.
One note machine ?..........yes, see above - and the best play quite a few useful and helpful harmonies.
Dinosaur ?.............. strangly enough, my son refutes this, even though he drags me into the 21stC on the odd instance, although I confess I've drawn the line in the sand at twittering .......
I am flexible (sadly, not now quite as physically so as I'd like, but, hey ho, it comes to us all...) and may question the need to be so now and then, but usually at least explore the possibilities of any new "opportunity" to change.
Oh, and I may refuse to change on certain points, but do remain open to persuasion - apart from the evil that is twitter, of course .......
And, frankly, I've lost Amazon's place in all this, but I am, I suppose, possibly in the minority that don't much like certain things they do, like "avoiding" paying reasonable taxation, damaging bookshops, treating some employees/suppliers not too well ....... I shan't go on, others do it better ........ And to follow on from that, I'm in the minority that still hypocritically use them if I can't find an acceptable alternative .
Oh, and yes, I do agree with you when you say you "will continue marching on happily reading on whatever devices we have that can display ebooks, play music, make phone calls etc.....
'Cos so will I, and a lot of those like me, who simply prefer not to have them all done by one behemoth device ......
I mean, I dearly love my offspring, and he is quite a tech-wiz .......but I do admit to the merest smirk when even he complained over the size/cost and sheer complexity of his latest smartphone ......
But a sideways glance told me quit when I know I'm ahead....
Even the dinosaurs got it right now and then .....
Where's me typewriter ribbon ?
