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Originally Posted by ahi
It makes about as much sense to begrudge them for it, as it does to get upset with your car mechanic for understanding how engines should be maintained, or your favourite restaurant's chef for knowing what flavours compliment each other in a well prepared dinner.
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I think it's more analogous to having a chef tell me that my grandmother's pies are necessarily inedible because my grandmother never went to culinary school. People who possess a specific skill set are not the best people to ask about the importance of their skill because their egos and self-interests will prevent them being objective.
Everyone likes a nice-looking book, but when you make statements about the absolute unreadability of current ebooks, you're bound to lose credibility with a crowd of ebook enthusiasts. Your love of typography inflates its importance in your mind, and you are insisting that if someone refuses to hold it in similar esteem then they are obviously stupid. Preferring ebooks to paying for and lugging around typographically superior p-books isn't "anti-intellectual", it's different priorities. I'm convinced that you would prefer typographically perfect Stephenie Meyer to poorly-formatted Nabokov. I can see you clutching your beautiful copy of
Twilight whilst sneering at the bourgeois idiots.