Dear PieterCasparzen,
The article devoted itself to the devices used and sold to read books, only.
I retorted in kind. An electronic device to read digitized print is by no means a BOOK! They have a shelf life of a battery, in that the market moves onto the next ‘reading gadget’, leaving you and your device in the dust, in the time for an AA battery, these days, to lose power.
I don’t care about your ipad. I won’t spend the money on one. I am a retired journalist of the printed word, and a published short story writer, first draft in ink. I was first published in 1964.
(*) Yes, my question was a serious one. Books cannot discharge their nonexistent electrical supply; fall, break and shatter the life of the human from whose hands it slipped, and memories gone; books cannot be superceded - ask any Christian, Jew, or insane Mohammedan, but not a Jehovah’s Witness - in their confusion, they thought it better to write their own, therefore fallable.
Good night!
I was doing fine without a (*) smartphone, until the phone company dropped the sort of signal I was using to communicateErgo, that was my ‘battery life experience’.
Sorry if that sounded like I was “anti-book”, which I’m not.
I had to trace back here to figure out who was replying to what (after getting some sleep).
Yes, I’m with you - I included you on my post #39 to support you !
My personal feeling is books are always there, as you say. Then, when it comes to ‘puters, I want full control over any machine that I buy.