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Originally Posted by danbloom
do I come across as a bit of a crank here? Could be. Just wondering because just today some highfalutin writer at TIME magazine told me I was full of sh*t and a crank to boot, regarding my ideas about pbooks and ebooks, and the never the twain shall meet refrain that some people accuse me of using as a mantra. Which of course is not true: the twain has met, pbooks have met ebooks and all is well. At least that's how I see it.
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Do you mean crank as in: "an annoyingly eccentric person; also : one who is overly enthusiastic about a particular subject or activity"?
Perhaps, but then this forum is filled with cranks.
But you are a bit of a "name-dropper" (ie, "some highfalutin writer at TIME magazine told me") Not an attractive trait, for a crank.
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But is it wrong -- or even threatening? -- to just think about a new word maybe for reading on screens, not in a negative or perjorative way, but just in a different way. And vive la difference, no?
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Not wrong or threatening, as far as I am concerned. Silly, and smacks of attempting to marginalize an activity as innocent as
reading.
Combined with your preconceived notion that ereading is detrimental to critical thinking, I find it less than sincere, and just an attempt to differentiate paper reading from reading from a reading device in order to claim such an imagined difference is damaging.
Come to think of it, I think the Time's writer had a point.
