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Originally Posted by Raphi'Elohim
My personal opinion is that serious readers don't read on tablets and smartphones no matter how much they protest to the contrary ostensibly that they are not dilletantes. For instance, Bill Gates is a serious reader who reads 50 books a year and to people like us the only serious argument is real physical paperbooks vs eReaders and the former devices don't even play a factor in the consideration. I chose the eReader route and Bill Gates chose real physical paper books route.
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Ok, I'm going to bite. You have an opinion, just like you have an asshole...everybody has one.
Just curious as to HOW you came to the conclusion about the seriousness of the reader by the contraption used to read.
For example, I read as many or more books than Bill Gates...some years (this year for sure). But I highly doubt that I'm getting the same quality of reading as Bill because of WHAT he chooses to read vs the genre mind-candy that I mostly read.
I wouldn't describe either one of us as "serious" as it relates to the reading part. I'd say he is reading to expand who he is and I'm reading to entertain myself. As an IT person, most of my "reading for improving myself" isn't contained in books. It's web articles, blogs, github documentation and the like. Even videos. Technology is changing so fast that by the time someone writes a book about it, it's dated. So....I'm discounting all that type of "reading" and sticking to whether or not "serious" applies to reading books at all. And if so, why would it be a comment on the reading device and not a comment on the reading content?
When I first got my iPad, it coincided with a new job that started off with 7 weeks of training. We had books/manuals that were 2 to 4" thick that we covered...each week. While everyone else dealt with those heavy books, I got the pdf's and read on my iPad....the original iPad. I had my own set of those books but left them in my hotel and read on the iPad and took the iPad to class.
I have a tv. I have a phone in my pocket. I have EVERY distraction imaginable....and that applies to whether I'm reading a book or reading on my phone or tablet. If I need distraction free reading, my task is the same whether I'm reading on a tablet or phone...or book. I turn off the distracting devices or put them in "do not disturb mode".
My tablets and phones give me MORE abilities to read than a physical book or an eInk device. I don't have any problems whatsoever reading for hours at a time. I have yet, in all these years, to be foiled from reading because of a battery running out of power....because I know how to plug my devices in at night. Or recharge them during the day (in the case of a phone. My tablets all easily last for a day of reading).
So....back to you. Just wondering what the basis for your "serious reading is done in paper or eInk" opinion given I KNOW you've heard plenty of testimony such as mine on this topic already.