The reason I will never buy an eReader.
This truly breaks my heart
I pledge to read the printed word
I have a kindle but never use it because I still prefer paper books over it.
Conform or die. EReader > paperbacks. Your “i love new book smell/turning pages/weight in my hand” bullshit is annoying. It’s a fake attempt at sounding cool. I’m a 4 book a week reader, the convince of an EReader is astronomically more convient than a bookstore or library. You lot don’t even read more than 4 books a year I bet.
It’s the content of the story, not the medium used to present it that counts. This is the way society works, the old dies off because the younger and stronger are better successors, welcome to consumerism and capitalism you morons. This new technology is allowing new authors to become noticed far quicker and allowing for massive amounts of people to search for specific genre, authors, and story archetypes much faster. Authors are seeing larger cuts of profit and books that run up to $25 are only $8 online. Your ignorance and preaching is so astounding that you should be exempt from reading in general because you don’t deserve the right of literacy.
As long as it sounds awesome, most people will say and follow any fucking hispter trend to sound relevant. Go choke on a hardcover.
If you’ve got something to say, say it off anon, atleast defend your ideal with dignity.
^ THANK YOU. I hate it when people reference Fahrenheit 451 to support their anti-ebooks argument. “See? Ray Bradbury saw it all! It’s the death of books because of technology!” HELLO PEOPLE. Did you just somehow not understand the interactions between Faber and Montag? It’s not the books themselves that Montag is missing in his life. Having the books doesn’t magically fulfill his inner emptiness, it is the content of the books that is truly important. Books were banned because of what the messages they had within them. Did you people somehow also just completely forget the wandering band of people who memorized the books? They are the books now, and the knowledge is finally safe as long as they have it within them. Same content, different container, just like with ebooks. Goddammit.
