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Originally Posted by cybrdmn
I heard it on my way to work this morning. I thought it was a bunch of baloney. Although I don't have a dedicated ereader, I have read ebooks on many different electronic devices since they were first introduced and I read the same way I always have.
"They scroll and scroll and scroll. You don't have this business of handling pages and turning them and savoring them."
Statements such as these are from the old school mindset that paper somehow is the holy grail of reading. If the content is worth savoring I can dwell on it just as well in electronic format.
Writing for blogs and the web doesn't compare to writing a novel either. Not every reader is trying to multitask and needs to be titillated within the first paragraph.
Marc
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Dear Marc:
Thank you. Well said!!
Others might also consider that "paper is not naturally white". It has to be bleached white. Paper Mill Sludge contains 32 known carcinogens and this sludge is going to cost all of us in the wallet to attempt to mitigate. Whether you care about the environment or not... paperback books are steadily going up in price while eBooks are steadily going down in cost. Of course all of us know paper comes from trees and they are growing more scarce too. Then there is landfill or lack of it. Finally, try carrying 8,000 paperbacks around with you! You can easily carry 8,000 eBooks!
The fact of the matter is that "savoring" paper books entails "savoring" a whole lot of other not-so-nice problems!