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Ereaders: the final chapter for the book?
There is an article in today's Telegraph newspaper about ebooks in which the writer says
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Finally, there is the all-important emotional question. An ereader, like all gadgets, is shiny, plastic, artificial. A book is pliable, organic, warm.
And that, in the end, is the reason I suspect the ereader will be slow to become a mass-market phenomenon, if indeed it ever does. It works for me because it is an elegant solution to a specific problem - that of carrying heavy books on the Tube. But it won't work for everyone.
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It could have as easily been said that the "Conastoga Wagon" is "pliable, organic, warm" while the automobile is "shiny, plastic, artificial". Does that mean that the automobile "will be slow to become a mass-market phenomenon, if indeed it ever does"?