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pking36330 · 01-28-2010, 03:04 PM

Look at the Mobileread front page today, 1/28/2010, and you will see 10 'articles' down the left frame that are the original post summary for various topics. Some are VERY lengthy and one is the shortest of all by far, the post about Apple's iPad. If you add up all the Mobileread family interest (judged by replies to the original post) in every one of them except that very brief Apple listing, combined they don't total one-fifth of the replies to the Apple iPad thread.

Yet we've spent 40 lines on the front page describing in great detail all the features of a second tier Chinese device that only a dozen people in this forum will ever own while failing to describe the features of a product that will sell more devices to Mobileread members in the first year than all the other devices currently owned by Mobileread members.

Why? Just because its an Apple device? Or because it'll do ebooks as well and any other device but it does other stuff too and so it isn't pure enough an ereader to warrant more attention on the front page?

I've read the e-ink snobbery in this forum for some time and continue to be amazed and the temerity of some members to tell us that nothing but e-ink is worthy of being labeled an ereader. But when this snobbery turns into institutionalized actions like populating the front page, it stops being snobbery and becomes technology bigotry.

01-28-2010, 03:04 PM	#1
pking36330 FT Parent PT Reader Posts: 322 Karma: 187838 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: South Alabama Device: Shocked by how much I've read on an iPod Touch received as a gift!	Mobileread front page bigotry? Look at the Mobileread front page today, 1/28/2010, and you will see 10 'articles' down the left frame that are the original post summary for various topics. Some are VERY lengthy and one is the shortest of all by far, the post about Apple's iPad. If you add up all the Mobileread family interest (judged by replies to the original post) in every one of them except that very brief Apple listing, combined they don't total one-fifth of the replies to the Apple iPad thread. Yet we've spent 40 lines on the front page describing in great detail all the features of a second tier Chinese device that only a dozen people in this forum will ever own while failing to describe the features of a product that will sell more devices to Mobileread members in the first year than all the other devices currently owned by Mobileread members. Why? Just because its an Apple device? Or because it'll do ebooks as well and any other device but it does other stuff too and so it isn't pure enough an ereader to warrant more attention on the front page? I've read the e-ink snobbery in this forum for some time and continue to be amazed and the temerity of some members to tell us that nothing but e-ink is worthy of being labeled an ereader. But when this snobbery turns into institutionalized actions like populating the front page, it stops being snobbery and becomes technology bigotry.