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EVERYONE BE SURE TO MENTION HOW YOU PREFER PAPER BOOKS WHEN YOU COMMENT AND THAT YOU HAD BLEACH FOR LIKE SOOOO LONG BEFORE NEVERMIND CAME OUT.
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@Moff:Are you suggesting people should avoid saying they prefer paper books in a discussion about one of the flaws of e-book readers? Why?
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@ParryLost: It's just so played out! It's not even that relevant or useful of a comment. What, like Kindle users are gonna go, "Ohhhhh -- if I'd just bought a paper book, it wouldn't have gotten deleted"?
And so many of the "I prefer paper" comments aren't even about the merits of print books as a medium so much as plain old snobbery, like "Kindle? Sorry, I'll stick with real books." As if it's some kind of noble stance to take. We are on a science-fiction site, and we live in what is still largely a print-based culture. No one is denying the merits of the print book.
It's like if you own a Segway and discover you have problems riding it to work because there's a big hill or something. And you're trying to figure out what might be done, and someone says, "Well, that's why I just drive my car." Thanks, jackass -- I never thought of that.
(Please note that I'm not actually calling you a jackass.) Reply
And so many of the "I prefer paper" comments aren't even about the merits of print books as a medium so much as plain old snobbery, like "Kindle? Sorry, I'll stick with real books." As if it's some kind of noble stance to take. We are on a science-fiction site, and we live in what is still largely a print-based culture. No one is denying the merits of the print book.
It's like if you own a Segway and discover you have problems riding it to work because there's a big hill or something. And you're trying to figure out what might be done, and someone says, "Well, that's why I just drive my car." Thanks, jackass -- I never thought of that.
(Please note that I'm not actually calling you a jackass.) Reply