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Shaggy: you're right, of course. Tradition, fear of change, reluctance or inability of an old dog to learn new tricks does come into this ebook-in-the-bath objection. The same mentally brought us 1,000 years of the Dark Ages. Remember, though, that those who use the ebook-in-the-bath objection probably don't read at all and are just showing off ... come on; what true book lover would take a treasured volume into a bath?
Whin: I have this very weekend cleared my quite aesthetically pleasing library of nearly six hundred pretty treebooks, holding onto only those I cannot replace with ebooks and those with special, sentimental value. I have come to believe that if the 'very visual impact of treebooks ...' is the appeal, then the owner is missing the point.
Language, writing and print is there to broadcast ideas. If the package also looks pretty, fine; but there are those who value the package above its content. And they seem to be the loudest objectors to the ebook ideal.
Best. Neil
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