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Originally Posted by JDK1962
Maybe someone will enjoy this.
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I enjoyed it some. It’s well written. He doesn’t insist he’s right (“I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them.”)
The author is a video game designer. Now, there’s something I don’t enjoy.
I gladly read Gutenberg eBooks on the Palm Pilot, so feel and fonts mean nothing to me.
Like almost all such articles, it fails to mention where mobile reading has, for better and worse, triumphed — newspapers. Even on the Palm, The New York Times was, to me, superior to the unwieldy paper edition. Now I subscribe to three dailies, lately mostly reading them on an older iPad, and probably paying less than the cost of 7 day home delivery for one.
Screens have been a disaster for local journalism. By contrast, with the book market, I don’t think mobile reading has much helped, or much hurt. Then, I do not read self-published books. YMMV.