And younger folks tend not to have the visual impairments that make ereaders and ebooks a blessing for so many folks.
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Exactly. I’ve never understood people who love to feel and smell paper books. Good Grief. It’s just paper. Ebooks are a life-saver to folks with poor vision.
I need my ereader due to my vision issues. But I love my dead tree editions. I love their smell, their covers, their print fonts. Some have deckle edges. I’ve got books over 150 years old. Some are available in ebook form, but I won’t part with them. There’s just something about a dead tree edition that can’t be replicated in ebook form :-)
People who claim to love the smell of old books must not be allergic to mildew, like I am.
Funny that there’s so much commentary on this article in a *web* forum. I’m wondering how many “I only read print books” commenters also type and mail letters to editors?