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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
That's not the point. The point is being forced to change a longstanding behaviour by forces beyond your control, which is hard for everybody. Surely it would be even harder if e-books didn't exist, and Rellwood had to give up reading entirely, but that still doesn't make the process of getting older and losing things you used to enjoy -- even when you can replace those things with other, similar things -- easy.
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That is exactly the point which is that @Rellwood seems to be equating being a serious reader with reading paper books. An attitude which seems to all too common even on MobileRead. I can see that giving some of your loves from your youth can be painful. OTOH, to me, there is no difference between my enjoyment of reading whether it be a paper book or an ebook. Now audiobooks are not my jam but I would not refer to someone who listens to audiobooks as not being serious.
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Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, pbooks.
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch."