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To: a fool in paradise

The one thing I cannot do is read a full book on a screen. I need to be able to physically touch the pages and smell the printed scent. Nothing is more wonderful to me than to be able to go through the pages of a book. The local used bookstore looks like it does quite well as far as customer base.


18 posted on 10/21/2010 2:02:18 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: HungarianGypsy
I have the full run of Rolling Stoned magazine on CD-ROM. Same with Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, and scattered decades of National Geographic.

You can "index" search to find certain topics but then you have to "slide, slide, slide" a page to actually read the text. My eyes can scan a paper page much quicker than an e-page and when artwork or photography is involved, forget it. It isn't the same experience.

20 posted on 10/21/2010 2:41:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: HungarianGypsy

It is a different experience to hold an issue of Life Magazine in your hands (or in my case a bound volume of issues, bought at a library book sale). The printing techniques never duplicate the effect on screen and the sheer size of the page is something else to take in.


23 posted on 10/21/2010 2:49:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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