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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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Never been the case for me. Mostly it's my extended family I talk to, and they're usually apologetic for preferring paper books to eBooks, because I've tried to foist eReaders on them several times. They feel bad about not being interested in them. I quit bugging them about eReaders because they're just not interested.