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Old 12-28-2015, 04:46 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
Wait, that was unsatisfying. Let me switch on Internet Arguing Mode:

[IAM]
What? Are you blind or just stupid?! I bet Hitler didn't think eink looked like paper either!
[/IAM]
That's more like it!

But seriously ... all the various electronic presentations of "books" look different enough to me from ink on paper to make any "more like real ink on paper" distinctions seem a little pointless. "Less absolutely different" would be the term I would probably use (if forced to use one) -- and I'd still have trouble declaring a clear "winner" even then.

Book paper is different than magazine paper is different then handwriting is different than laser printing is different than typesetting is different than reading under incandescents is different than reading under direct sunlight is different than LCD is different than eink is different than Garamond is different than Bookerly is different than audio books (is different than mp3 is different than wav/flac is different than speakers is different than headphones...).

"More Like" is different than "less different."

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