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NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
21. eBooks are real books
Thu May 16, 2024, 01:19 PM
May 2024

They're not data bits pretending to be books The publishers don't make a different War and Peace for ebooks than they do for their treeware versions. eBooks are simply another method to access content that is the same as what one finds in a treeware book.

It gets old seeing people trash eBooks all the time. Hating on eBooks would be like disparaging Gutenberg's first books as 'fake' compared to illuminated books. And maybe there was a time when people thought bound books were anathema compared to scrolls. I guess some people are so stuck in their preferred ruts that they can't accept how technology moves on, like it or not.

Surely in a world with too few readers, what matters is that people are reading books, not the means of reading them.

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"actual" book refers to the physical format. Of course ebooks are real yellowdogintexas May 2024 #22
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