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Originally Posted by neilmarr
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The usual tired old nit-picks, LD: curling up with a good book, turning the pages by hand, the smell of paper and ink, eye-strain, what if someone steals my reader, you can't read an ebook in the bath ... and so on and so on ... ad bloody nauseam. Neil
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Ahhh...I only looked at the first 50 comments at first, and didn't see more of the emotional reactions. Those are still generally just ignorant hesitation, but would easily be snuffed out with sufficent experience.
There's not enough good anti-ebook sentiment based on experience. Of course, even the most negative (but not paranoid) arguments about ebooks are tempered by the reality that they do in fact have some advantages.
My hope is that once we have capable hardware, more competent reading software will follow. One thing the iPad has me excited about is that development is going to skyrocket for a little while, and some of that will inevitably be related to reading, and some may take advantage of the hardware speed and capability much more practically than page-turning animations. Then again, maybe not.