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Author is correct. Ebooks do suck. There has to be some reasons why Ebooks as a % of total books sales is low, and flat or declining. My kids' generation--the folks 30 and under--are mostly going back to paper books. They tell me there's a few very simple reasons: because of screen fatigue, and because they want something REAL to interact with during their leisure time.
When it comes to ebooks, I have to admit I've been into them partly because I'm a tech geek, and I LIKE all the farting around it takes to buy, manage, decrypt, convert, tag, and distribute them to devices. But.....all that farting around. The idiotic decryption and downloads and hardware and firmware and versions and plugins and sideloading and metadata and and and and....
It just sucks. When I want to read, I want to pick up the damned book and start reading. And when I buy something I want to OWN it forever, be able to loan it to people, and not have it become inaccessible due to software and hardware becoming outdated.
Ok rant off. But there's some truth to the article. Now I'll probably still keep all my books, kindle, Ipad, etc. But I've been buying more of the keeper category of books in paper lately.
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