You guys are missing the author's main point!
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I love physical books, love the weight, love the texture, love the feel. Yes, I am that guy in the bookstore picking up every new hardcover, who finds that books with a rough front make him feel fancy.
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He likes the physicality of the books. With an ereader, it's always the same feel and weight in your hands. We also loose the cover's seduction (hey, for me, a good cover can add a lot to a book
), the smell and texture of paper, the pleasure of holding something physical in your hands (without the worry that it's fragile and can break easily).
I personally embraced the ebooks. And for about a year I pratically didn't touch pBooks. But know I can say it's 50/50. It's different the whole deal of receiving a new book by mail or by browsing a bookstore, and just downloading a file, loading it in your ereader and just have the words in there, nothing tangible (you don't even see the cover again!).
I think I know what the author feels... Although I'm extremely fond of ereader/ebooks virtues too.
(BTW, I'd rather take 5 books to a desert island than 500 in an ereader. The battery would be wasted after reading one or two ebooks, anyway.
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