[nikkie]

@Alan You seemed to have missed the point of the eBook entirely. It's not "eTwitter", or "eFacebook" for a reason. It's e*book*. My time spent reading eBooks on my iPhone is time that I've specifically chosen not to tweet or email or blog. It's time - hours and hours - spent reading. The fact that it's on my iPhone is really quite irrelevant to any of your complaints. Yes, it's bright. Do you have a problem with the light? Would you begrudge someone a light-bulb to read a book, or a book-light? Yes, I can touch the screen. But I can touch a book page.

If you're afraid of the internet as a whole, what on earth are you doing posting in this forum? If you're not, then where is your complaint? Why can't you divorce the *method* of book-reading from the act and the idea?

Also, your link is broken.

Seriously though. Get off the internet and go live in the woods with no electricity and try reading and writing in the dark of winter with homemade ink and paper and then feel free to come back and tell us how technology is evil. That sounds like a tirade worth reading.

Meanwhile, I'm going to get back to Ringworld.