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e-readers are amazing!
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 30 Jan 2011, 08:42 ---This type of thing has been said because of just about every "modern" change. People that copied books by hand said this about printing presses, for example.
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This is a specious and altogether fallacious argument. The printing press enabled automated book production. It did not, as e-readers are, simply replace the printed format.
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 30 Jan 2011, 08:42 --- Just because your child (should you have one) won't necessarily have the same experience as you did with books doesn't mean they won't still very much enjoy them.
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Thank you for not reading my post at all, just skimming over it and then picking out whatever you could. I sincerely doubt that, no matter how well made an e-reader is, that it OR the format upon which its books have been written will still be around in a hundred, or even fifty years.
This, and the other walls of text hastily written in defense of the e-reader, have unfortunately missed the point. They say that the printed word will not "disappear" when in reality it's already occurring- as was mentioned before, authors such as Warren Adler have already begun the transition to "digital only" formatting, forgoing the printed book altogether.
I suppose it was too much to expect anything from digitalophiles here to actually appreciate the advantages books have to offer beyond "their smell". After all, in a hundred years, when every ebook on the market has been forgotten and the only records of our current lives will be the fragmented remnants viewable on some holodeck somewhere, NOBODY would ever want to preserve anything we've written today! No, sir, put those books in the fire of time with LPs and the Nickelodeon. After all, today's books can't satisfy our desire for instant search gratification or be censored to remove "bad" words (ala Huckleberry Finn) at the push of a button.
Ugh.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 30 Jan 2011, 10:25 ---
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 30 Jan 2011, 08:42 ---This type of thing has been said because of just about every "modern" change. People that copied books by hand said this about printing presses, for example.
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This is a specious and altogether fallacious argument. The printing press enabled automated book production. It did not, as e-readers are, simply replace the printed format.
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lol yep that's all e-readers do
Speaking of which, I think Kindle has a software development kit so I was thinking of borrowing one and developing "choose your own adventure" books on it. It really seems like the perfect platform for that sort of thing. No "flip to page X if you choose Y," just press the button. And I could put in a back button for when you want to go back and try a different decision.
ackblom12:
You know, you're being a massive dick.
Also you missed a lot of the point of Papersatan's point about it not totally replacing print. Re-read it and stop assuming no one here loves books.
Also Huck Finn is a terrible example since it's in the public Domain. If any printer decided to remove the racial slurs they could. Any other printer then could release it with them included or just not remove them in the first place.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 30 Jan 2011, 10:29 ---You know, you're being a massive dick. Also you missed a lot of the point of Papersatan's point about it not totally replacing print. Re-read it and stop assuming no one here loves books.
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Insulting me and repointing out a point already dismissed doesn't somehow make the point valid. As was already pointed out, large numbers of authors have already begun the transition to digital-only, in effect and fact "replacing" the printed book.
Again, calling me names doesn't make your point valid. In fact, it proves my point exactly.
ackblom12:
Nor does trying to prove your point by calling anyone here digitalophiles and crying "OH WOE IS ME."
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