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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
While we're on the subject of pointless technology....
And would you really want to spend a few hundred quid on buying one of these & filling it with books and then taking it onto the beach?
You spill a drink on a book it dries out, try spilling a drink on one of these.
You accidently drop a huge ornamental donkey you've bought from your holiday in spain on a book after a drunken night out , nothing happens. Drop it on one of these.....
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Ha ha! All very true, Urban, especially the part about the ornamental donkey!
I also would just rather look at print on a page in a book than on an electronic screen. I like actual books partly because they *are* low-tech.
I doubt a computer could simulate the dusty smell of an old book...kind of repellent but interesting...or one that has sat on the floor by the toilet too long, after condensation turns it a little yellow. (This happened to all my brother's Star Trek paperback books when I was a kid, so you read them at your own risk.) And if I were reading on vacation, I'd miss the wind fluttering the pages.