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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
A device like that sounds terrible and I hope it never comes to fruition. At least crap books can be pulped. But millions of disposable e-readers holding Fifty Shades of Gray clogging up a landfill would be a disaster.
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I left that one alone. I gave the poster the benefit of the doubt and assumed it was not a serious suggestion. This is because the idea, if serious, seems to be an example of extreme wishful thinking by tradpub enthusiasts. It abandons the ereader bad / paper good mantra, and all of those wonderful intangible benefits of paper like smell and feel and being able to physically flick through paper books in favour of an ereader! But a crippled version of an ereader which has only one book! And thereby preserves the need for the existing physical distribution network and no doubt the oligopoly of its bloated masters. It also preserves physical book stores, libraries and the whole existing infrastructure. Many of us who love reading and do so voraciously can again have our homes looking like the local branch of Steptoe & Sons. We can again pack our suitcases so full of books for a journey that we have little room for anything else! Those who like to show off their books can place these wonderful devices facing out on the shelves with the screensaver no doubt showing the cover. Or perhaps we can have a thick one book reader with the title and author prominent on the spine!
Just seeing the suggestion brought tears of mirth to my eyes, as I'm sure it must have been intended to do.