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Bit of a contradiction here, since he also says (before mentioning GOG, No Starch, etc.): “So I bought it. For the first time in my life, I bought an ebook, be
by arm 6y ago
Bit of a contradiction here, since he also says (before mentioning GOG, No Starch, etc.):
“So I bought it. For the first time in my life, I bought an ebook, because it's 2020, so why not.”
- slantyyz 6y agoI find the "it's 2020" statement strange in more than one way. Yeah, ebooks are higher tech than paper, but I find the experience to be worse than paper. I have no problem reading long-form content on a screen, but I'd rather be reading a long scrolling HTML page than a "paged" ePub or PDF. I just set up an Obooquity server on my network so I can access my eBooks from any device, and I dislike the experience. FWIW, I dislike physical eBook readers and mobile eBook reading apps too. DRM aside, I feel like "it's 2020", and the fact you have to flip pages to read eBooks to be somewhat ridiculous.
- icebraining 6y agoI don't know about hardware readers, but there are apps that let you scroll instead of paging. In Calibre, for example, you can switch to "flow mode".
- arm 6y agoJust an assumption on my part, but the 2020 statement might be referring to the current state of the world, i.e., thanks to ongoing quarantines in many places, it’s easier to buy e-books than physical ones.