Thread: The Cell Phone Novel
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Old 12-30-2009, 06:07 PM   #12
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by lilac_jive View Post
I heard that this morning and I was getting agitated when Grossman complained that reading "on a screen" lessens the reading experience. He intimated that it wouldn't be read in the same way (on the Kindle, he said you keep scrolling and scrolling and there's no page turns). Clearly the guy knows nothing about ereaders.

As for Nicholas Carr's experience, I can safely say I've never read a book and thought "where are the links?"
Well... Yes... I must agree with Grossman. I've found that reading on Cybook Gen3s, Sony PRS-500s, Kindle 2s, Dell Axim x51vs, Gateway Core2Quad desktops and Dell Mini 12 netbooks *HAVE* 'lessened' my reading experience! Why I haven't had an 'I'm so frustrated by the tiny type and nano-scule margins I used to experience with paperbacks' experience in over a YEAR!

And it's been TWO years since my chest has been crushed to the point of inducing a massive Sleep Apnea episode through reading in bed with a hardcover novel!

Yep. *MY* reading experiences *have* been 'lessened'! Thank you for pointing all that out Mr. Grossman!

Not!

Derek
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