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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I like how she's encouraging the peer pressure around her books among young people to manifest as peer pressure to get real books, rather than gadgets to show off to their friends that are more important than the books in those gadgets.
One day ebooks will be ubiquitous and inexpensive and will transcend the "novel gadget" status it still enjoys today. Today is not that day, except for some deluded fools on websites like this.  |
Quite frankly, I don't get this. To me, ebook readers are just tools, a medium on which to read. I don't see them as cool by any means. Heck, I don't know of any teenagers who think ebook readers (as novel a gadget as they may be) are cool. It might be different in Asia, but in the US, I'm pretty sure that's not the case. That may be the case when Apple releases its own ebook reader, but right now, they don't have that cool gadget status.
Sure, the current crop of readers certainly seem to have a lot of shortcomings still but that's the case with any new technology. However, I'm thankful that there are people who are willing to be guinea pigs for these imperfect devices as that's what makes them more affordable for the rest of us.
Another thing, ebooks and ebook readers are separate. You can read an ebook on a computer, PDA, cellphone, etc. Indeed, surveys suggest that the computer is still the most commonly used device for reading ebooks. Having an ebook version available does not necessarily equate to getting an ebook reader to show off to friends.