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Originally Posted by slayda
There are still a lot of people who get a lot of satisfaction from riding a horse but when they need to get somewhere, the use a motoer vehicle of some sort. Just as there are riding clubs today, I can imagine a day when there will be reading clubs who get together with bound books to share their "satisfaction" from turning the pages and smelling the musty, dusty pages, saying things like, "Isn't it satisfying to have to manually search through the pages for a particular quote?"
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preaching the choir, slayda.
nonetheless, it does seem to be true for some people (call them fetichists, if you like
), based on conversations i've had. and explaining to them patiently that ebooks are an *additional* format for reading rather than something which threatens to replace paper books altogether goes a long way towards getting them to take a look with any kind of open mind.
also, now matter how much i love ebooks (and you know i do love them !) i have to concede that for now, at least, it's true that some books just don't translate well to a screen (art books, for instance). and i have sufficient appreciation myself for a well-designed book (i mean the page layout, the typography, etc.) to fully understand why people are attached to paper books, even if that doesn't stop me from enjoying my ebooks one second.
