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Originally Posted by leebase
Now, I can list the many advantages of an ebook and reading an ebook. It is far and away my favorite way to read. But I can understand why someone could value "bookiness".
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Sure. There are things that books do better. There are things that I miss about books. I prefer ereading, but that doesn’t mean that books are the devil’s handiwork, yet the author seems to think the reverse.
Just last night: I was about to start an ebook about Britain in the 50s when a lightbulb went off; I realized that I had the paper book of the author’s preceding book about the immediate postwar period that I’d never got to and I figured I should read that first. I dug it out, and it’s not happening. Fat paperback, tiny font tightly displayed, mushy print on coarse paper. I could read it if I were motivated and desperate but I’m not, and since it’s not available as an ebook, that’s the end of it. There are a lot of books I’ll never read.
And when I think of the white display and crisp print on my Aura One, a font that’s infinitely adjustable, and no battle to keep the book open! So much for dim gray pages - in this case, it was the paper option.