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Originally Posted by rcentros
The reason I'm going through all this is that I'm trying to make you understand why people refer to paper books as "real books." And that, to them, it's almost never intended to be snarky — it's just that a paper book is tangible — they can hold it in their hands.
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In my experience, it's almost always been meant to be snarky when brought up. I' m not exaggerating. When people go all "real book" on me in conversation, it's nearly always in conjunction with the opinion that I'm somehow "wrong" for favoring ebooks. They then proceed to defend their position with completely non-readery reasons. I'd take absolutely no issue with people sharing their personal preference for pbooks with me. I don't care what they prefer themselves. It's when they cross the line from "I don't care for ebooks myself" to taking issue with me because
I do that I feel justified in getting a little cranky with them. And that's happened to me more than a little. Often enough to not be able to be explained away by misunderstandings over a definition of terms.