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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Well shit - you wandered into a forum where not everybody agrees with you. I bet that has never happened before to anybody in the history of the internet.
But, it's OK, because it's only because anybody who disagrees with you is a senile old fogey. Phew, thank God for you dynamic youngsters and your open minds. How on earth could people older than you who actually have e-readers as a serious hobby possibly dare argue with a person who actively dislikes mobile reading devices and doesn't even like reading.
I think that the exit is that way - bye now!  |
That's not what I meant. It would be pretty damn boring to post on a forum where everyone agreed with you!
What I meant is I feel silly wasting time arguing over a minor hobby. I already spend a ton of time--talking probably a couple hundred thousand posts across different sites over the 15 years or so I've been posting on websites--arguing about movies, music, video games, politics etc.
I like my Kindle. I like reading novels. But I don't LOVE it as a main hobby like most here, so my posts are probably more forum addiction than love of the hobby so I just realized I need to scale back on that front.
Not because people disagree. But because it's not a huge hobby and I don't really fit in here. Which leads to endless arguments, and the same arguments over and over with people who only want e-ink and have no interest in tablets etc. I'd more need a tech gadget forum with some discussion of e-reading, vs. an e-reading forum with some discussion of tech gadgets.
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
I guess my true fear is......will the artwork evolve and get more intricate, will people need to 'read' less to understand the story?
Thats scary.
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Novels will never go anywhere. Movies have been around for a century or so, comic books nearly as long, and yet there are tons and tons of books coming out every year.
So no need to have that fear as it won't happen.
I don't think it scary anyway. In my view movies are the superior form of story telling anyway.
But in anycase, written story telling will never die off or even majorly decline. There will always be a place for novels in the entertainment/arts spectrum.