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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.
Tablets are ok for reading highly technical documents from specialized periodicals for short bursts. These periodicals are generally not as long as books in page numbers.
I actually have a mix of real physical books and ebooks on my eReader but I gave most of my physical books away, for free, to a used bookstore.
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I find your assertion that I, someone who reads a fair amount of serious material on my tablet including a such open access pdfs such as
Women in the Ancient Near East, do not exist to be rather offensive. I am fortunate not to suffer eyestrain when reading on a sufficiently dimmed tablet and find the utility of a tablet for reading pdfs (many academic works are hard to find in other affordable formats) and the value of platforms such as Noet for certain types of study valuable. As I can't justify the expense of owning an ereader when I need my tablet almost all my reading is done on my tablet.