[DiapDealer]

I find it amusing (and not in a bad way) that ereading has been around long enough for there to be old-school/new school camps among its adherents. The buttons vs "sexy touch screens" comment ironically reminds me of the "real" books vs sexy, new-fangled (but not logical) ebooks debates. So we now have luddite-luddites and technophile-luddites, it seems. I guess technological change is always strongly devisive--even among fairly like-minded demographic groups. Is there a word for that effect, I wonder?

My personal philosophy is that I can't read any more or less efficiently regardless of the device or its features (unless direct download via neural shunt becomes a reality). The pleasure I get from reading cannot be affected by buttons vs touch, or LCD vs eink, dedicated vs multi-purpose. Every device I've ever purchased and/or used to read an ebook has "gone away" within a couple of chapters of the first book read on it. I don't imagine that changing.

In the immortal words of Tripper Harrison: "It just doesn't matter!"