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Originally Posted by KevinBurke
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Originally Posted by meeera
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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo
True, but paper book are still less likely to get you than an ebook in an electronic device whose battery may spontaneously catch fire and burn down your house at any moment. Pedestrians are also increasingly becoming casualties while walking while texting however it's possible an unfortunate few were engrossed in an ebook before they met their fate.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...cent/81483294/
In regard to the dangers of pbooks I did get a nasty paper cut a time or two while reading.  |
What are you innumerate ? What's the statistics on ebooks spontaneously combusting ? Must be extremely low at best.
Do drive a car ? More Americans have died in car accidents than in the Vietnam war but people still drive. Maybe, you should stop driving and sell your car.
Also, who the hell walks or drives while reading an ebook ? You can walk or drive and read a paper book too. I fail to see your point as walking and texting or driving and texting is alot more common numerically speaking than walkng or driving while reading an ereader and a physical book can cause the same fate.
I bet you alot more people die walking drunk, in Manhatta, by cars or driving drunk than by death by ereader. The numbers, statistically speaking must be extremely low. |
My comment was more a tongue-in-cheek response to meera’s response that a paper book is as capable of causing injury as a electronic device in water. I certainly wasn’t trying to provide a statistical analysis of the risk of death via paperbooks vs ebooks. You are also correct that a waterproof ereader device has a greater variety of reading material available than water proof book. The genre of water proof books seems to be limited currently to water proof childrens books, classics, certain books made for underwater reading for scuba divers, and the aqua-erotica genre books I’ve previously mentioned. When it comes to reading books in the water I concede your point #5 that a water proof ereader has the advantage over books.