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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
This thread made me realize that I am not a book lover but a reader and lover of stories. I don't give a fig for books and if publishers are in it for the love of books then we are on different sides.
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I'm the same way. While I have seen some books that are objects of beauty, most are just a tool to deliver content. I find them to be a rather inferior and inconvenient tool at that. There are places where a print book is still better, but as technology improves they will be fewer. I know there are some people who have a great sentimentality towards paper books and I don't want to denigrate their feelings (they're just as valid as mine), but I think many don't understand that these feelings are not universal amongst people who love to read. I think often times for the ephemeraphiles, the love of the book as an object and the book as content are so intertwined they have a hard time seeing how there could be so many of us that don't share it but still love reading just as much as they do. I have even been accused of being dead inside because my soul doesn't resonate with the smell of decaying tree. When you consider that folks who passionately love paper books have a much better chance of gravitating to the publishing industry, it explains a lot of the resistance to ebooks.