I can't feel for the author. The Saint Augustine section was simply irrelevant to whether or not reading from an e-book is real reading. But the real reason I can't feel for him is that he spits in the face of people who use e-readers. He's absolutely free to prefer paper books, absolutely free to not read e-books, I won't criticize people for their preferences. But he can't imagine that other people might have different preferences, can't imagine that people can get just as much out of a book in an e-book format that he gets out of it in paper format.
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