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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Again with the whole "Real" thing?  |
LOL. Indeed. If an e-book wasn't a real book, then a video game wouldn't be a real game...
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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
With physical books, a child of any ability can find a book on a shelf, go over to Mom or Dad and say "read this". That's much more natural than getting Mom's iPad, typing in her password (  ), navigating to the kindle app and scrolling through the covers to find the one they want. Ebooks have a noticeable friction that physical books don't, which is easy for adults and strong readers to overcome, but much less so for younger children. |
Same goes for older people.
How would you listen to music in 'the old days' (before 2000)?
Go to a shop. Pick up an LP/CD, pay for it and go home.
Put the album into your player. Press "Play" and listen.
Now try that digitally. You'll have to make sure your player can play the file format, is compatible with DRM used (if any), you'll have to buy, download, store, organize and backup the files... etc.
Listening to music digitally (or reading books, or watching movies, anything...) has become a LOT more complex to understand for people who haven't grown up with using computers from childhood.