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Why you should read War and Peace on your phone
Why you should read War and Peace on your phone
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Clive Thompson is an idiot.
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I think he should try on a real eReader as opposed to a phone.
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I don't often do it, but I agree with the Wolf here.
If I understood the article correctly, it essentially said "digital books enabled me to read a book that is otherwise too bulky and cumbersome in a paper format. It's just a shame the book wasn't in a paper format." |
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Oh great. Now I'm going to be looking around all day for more signs of the Apocalypse... :-P
I agree with PeterT. This guy should try reading on an actual eReader. |
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Can you always drive a truck through the holes in Clive’s logic?
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"Sometimes I still wish, I feel like, maybe there's something that will eventually emerge technologically that will give electronic books something closer to the wonderful, gorgeous ergonomics and haptics of paper books." How can something "too bulky and cumbersome" have "wonderful, gorgeous ergonomics"? |
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I think what we need is flexible e-ink screens that are paper thin and can display on both sides. Then, we could bundle a large number of these paper-thin pages between some sort of cover... Quote:
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No, you can't, because you'll kill Spock because of the stress of being in such an illogical place and Data will crash because the fact of wanting an e-book so as to forgo having to use a very large paper book and then complaining about the e-book not being a paper book doesn't compute.
I'm sure that sentence will make your brain hurt. I'm still not certain it's grammatically correct, by the way... |
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And I like ereaders because I can have a book with a beautiful leather cover, be it a simple harlequin (is that how you spell it?) or a huge book consisting of 20000 pages... |
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I have to agree with JSWolf, ZodWallop and Cinisajoy. While ereader's still don't look like a traditional book I'd rather lug around 8oz of electronics than 1-2 lbs of paper, ink and glue. Plus at a couple inches thick a book like War and Peace is hard to hold open in paper. Not so with an ebook edition. Maybe one day there will be ereaders that have pages like a traditional paper book but until that day comes the present ereaders aren't doing that badly as a media either.
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