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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Much like I don't consider someone who cooks very sparingly "a cook," I don't consider someone who reads very sparingly "a reader." Different strokes. And no, I don't think you were consciously judging anybody, but I thought I'd share that to some, that sort of language CAN come across judgmental. The fact that this conversion is not remotely an isolated incident on these forums is proof of that, I think.
And regardless of all that, I still question whether the assumption that "most readers-who-read-hundreds-of-ebooks-per-year" have dedicated eink devices is actually still true (or if it was true for any "serious" length of time). *shrug*
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I see--so, you're judging them internally,
BEFORE you name them as readers.
Just teasing, but that's what you're doing-you're simply mentally dismissing
casual readers from the group "reader". Gotcha. Of course, the upside to that is, you aren't offending anyone not living inside of your brain. I managed, apparently, to offend someone through the use of the phrase "serious readers." Oh, well.
I was mostly talking about the fact that most "readers" (in your group) use SOME kind of device, and yes, I do think that most readers (ditto) have a dedicated device therefor. I don't have some big poll to point to; just a casual poll of our own 4,000+/- clients. We have the one group--our clients that have
never read or owned an eReader, but who read DT Books, and our clients that
have. Of those that have, an overwhelmingly large number own eInks.
I'd be the FIRST to say, our clients are
not, by and large, MR members or in the set of people who would be MR members. They wouldn't try Calibre, or Sigil, etc., so clearly, that's a different set of folks than y'alls. Honestly, I thought that made them a more "typical" group of readers than MR members, who are (mostly) device nuts.
So, anyway, BACK OT: it's not that easy to see the link indication, limning images, in eInks.
Hitch