Still waiting for electronic paper...or something that lets me access the web's info in a physical, eye-pleasing way. Until then, I'll still be looking for the deadtree version first.
Still waiting for electronic paper...or something that lets me access the web's info in a physical, eye-pleasing way. Until then, I'll still be looking for the deadtree version first.
After about a year on the Kindle, I just finished re-reading a set of novels. Maybe I just don't find it as important, but the impossibility of losing my place and inline dictionary beat out any physicality problems.
It's about physically having a book in my hands. The kindle, while more efficient, just feels awkward. To me, it's the same as reading on a computer, minus the eye strain. It has no style or substance, like a book; it's just a piece of plastic/metal.
Given that, you may be set in your ways, or have standards that don't match the trends, but I wouldn't say you are a Luddite. (Though, perhaps, you are a deadtree publisher..?)
(not a deadtree publisher though - just a guy with irritable eyes)
I wish that there wasn't the stranglehold on the libraries, so I could get a real selection of epub and the like.