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Since I'm now in the second half of my first century reading without glasses for an extended amount of time is difficult and hate reading glasses. My Kindle looks like paper and I can make the text larger our smaller depending on how my eyes are doing at that moment. I can just touch a word and have a dictionary definition our wikipedia article. If I forget my Kindle I can have my phone sync to where I was. When you compare all of that to "I like the smell of paper" I don't think it is even close.
Since I'm now in the second half of my first century reading without glasses for an extended amount of time is difficult and hate reading glasses. My Kindle looks like paper and I can make the text larger our smaller depending on how my eyes are doing at that moment. I can just touch a word and have a dictionary definition our wikipedia article. If I forget my Kindle I can have my phone sync to where I was. When you compare all of that to "I like the smell of paper" I don't think it is even close.
For me it is about the words and ebooks are just a superior word delivery system. I am sure when the printing press was invented their were people who insisted on only hand written books.
Plenty of times I haven't had my Kindle on me for whatever reason and just read on my phone. 
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Does Anybody Else Avoid Ebooks?
- 21/04/2017 10:21:26 PM
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I love book-books, but I mostly read e-books now. Convenience & so forth
- 21/04/2017 11:22:06 PM
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Ditto - I can carry a couple hundred books in my around in mh Galaxy Mega
- 28/04/2017 01:43:44 PM
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I use ebooks for trashy genre fic. I like having pretty hardcovers of good books. *NM*
- 22/04/2017 12:40:48 AM
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Don't you dare NM me, you make an interesting comment and did not share =P
- 22/04/2017 01:37:55 AM
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Finishing a book has a completionist satisfaction that e-books lack.
- 22/04/2017 01:17:26 AM
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Yes. I prefer the real thing. *NM*
- 22/04/2017 06:58:12 AM
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Was the real thing for you some form of clay tablet or a form of plant fiber like papyrus?
- 22/04/2017 08:17:25 AM
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When Mook was a kid
- 22/04/2017 12:40:24 PM
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didn't he try to
- 23/04/2017 07:02:02 PM
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are you referring to the Chauvet Cave paintings? El Castillo? Or Sulawesi? *NM*
- 23/04/2017 07:39:59 PM
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Never a need to apologize for taking a shot at me, unless it is done poorly 
- 22/04/2017 04:34:20 PM
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- 22/04/2017 04:34:20 PM
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You may have thick skin, but your insides are full of inflammation and thus very tender and reactive
- 23/04/2017 02:31:35 AM
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Being old may suck but it beats the alternative. *NM*
- 25/04/2017 03:48:53 AM
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The alternative is a life force goddess / vixen who takes the life force of others, to remain ... ?
- 26/04/2017 12:29:44 AM
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Never read one. Dont have a device, wont get one. I like turning pages and smelling old books. *NM*
- 23/04/2017 02:29:00 AM
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Ever since I got my first Kindle (2009, maybe), I've refused to read paper books.
- 23/04/2017 04:12:49 AM
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What do you do for textbooks, or are those days behind you?
- 23/04/2017 05:03:38 AM
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Here's the deal. When I used textbooks, I never marked them. I never used post its either.
- 24/04/2017 02:59:25 PM
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I avoid mold carrying tree killing paper books
- 24/04/2017 01:26:39 PM
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That is very true about the phone sync.
- 24/04/2017 01:57:05 PM
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