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Originally Posted by mdp
This is very interesting, because since 'book' indicates the medium, not the content, and to refer to the latter through such word is a metonymy, it follows that 'eBook' indicates the tablet, the display, not the product of a writer. "Buying an eBook" literally means, buying the hardware.
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I would not say ebook to my physical ebook reader. It generally just gets referred to as book. When I ask my wife, or the other way around, where my book is, she automatically knows that the Kindle is meant. But then, the word book means both, content and medium. Or rather content and physical object containing the medium. Have you seen my book? Yeah, you left it on the headboard. Which book are you reading? Right now I am reading
Die Obstdiebin.
It is so much easier now with ebooks that there is a clear distinction. If I want to read, it is usually a bad idea to pick up my wife's book, since it won't have my books on it. Plus, I don't have to share my book, because she can have a copy of the same book on her book.
