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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Your comments are pretentious and condescending towards people who like e-readers. Make you sound like a "print snob".  |
Well since I like and use ebook readers, it seems a little strange that I'd be so dubbed. The quality and usability aren't there, as I often point out. That does not make me a print snob. There's nothing especially arrogant about wanting reasonable quality for your money. I can get decent quality on a good high-res high-contrast screen. I read my documents on computers most of the time and am generally satisfied with the text quality when a book is adequately set in PDF. Yet I still have an ebook reader and use it every day. I tell people quite often "in a few years, these things should be interesting."
But yes perhaps I like taking shots at the ebook community once in a while, since I see it in a highly unflattering light, such as that promoted in this thread. I also see a lot of dishonesty and hype. Perhaps that dishonesty and hype are actually just unintentional blindness, but misinformation and disinformation are hard to separate sometimes in communities based on justification.
But hey, whatever helps you sleep at night. You can go on and call me a luddite too...I think that title gets thrown around a lot in these parts too.