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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
I don't think anyone has ever sat with him and said "Look! This is what it does, this is why I love it, now pick a book you'd like to read, and go sit down with it. Any questions, speak out and I'll answer."
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Well, he obviously feels sufficiently knowledgeable on the subject to rant about it at some length. He does have a blog, and he appeared in this thread quickly enough, which tells me he's not a technophobe. And if he really doesn't understand ebooks, as you suggest, it could only be because he deliberately chooses not to. No, I think delphi is right - he doesn't care what a kindle does or why people love it. He just feels threatened, he fears that ebooks are making him irrelevant - or maybe he just needs something to blame for his apparent lack of success.
Anyway, I don't really care about his rant as such, it just struck me how poorly argued it was. He just seems to think that if he uses enough invective, people will fail to notice that there aren't any facts or logic in his rant, no reasoning as such. Does he take his readers for a bunch of idiots?