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So, question: does receiving an e-card by email feel the same to you as receiving a paper card?

If the same thought and effort was put into it then yes.

Why not send that paper card instead of an e-card?

It's not that digital art isn't fantastic.

But it doesn't happen "by accident" in the same way that doodling does when you are required to carry pen and paper with you for almost every task.

Maybe someday someone will make a cool doodle-browser plugin, so I can scribble in the margins of the webpages I am reading throughout the day.

Interesting, okay, that makes sense to me.

It's more accurate to say that technology competes for our time against things like doodling.