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I don't buy this at all. The first reason being- a novel is a novel. A story is a story. A well-written non-fiction is a well-written non-fiction. The medium d
by rg111 5y ago
I don't buy this at all.
The first reason being- a novel is a novel. A story is a story. A well-written non-fiction is a well-written non-fiction. The medium does not matter at all.
I have beeen reading voraciously since I was three and a half. It's not much, but I finished reading 200+ books that are not text books/tech books before I turned 20.
I tell you, dead-honest, once I am into a book, I absolutely, literally forget in which medium I am reading it. A book becomes the highest level I am interacting with where the medium is just abstracted away. This feeling is literal to me.
I have used laptops, tablets, 5, 6.5 inch smartphones, Kindles, and desktops as readers. Reading books on desktop is the least physically pleasing. But I must tell you that even while reading on desktop, I totally, absolutely forgot what I was reading on.
I read non-fictions spanning 300+ pages, novels spanning 600+ pages on desktop screens. I was so into them, I was so immersed, that I did not even remember it was a desktop screen.
Secondly, the author assumes the reader standard being Kindles. That's so shallow and out of touch with reality.
A lot of people read ebooks differently, not to mention ebook readers from other companies.
After trying all those, tablets are my best choice for reading ebooks, even better than Kindles.
Kindles are inadequate and have a lot of shortcomings.
I use an android tablet for all my reading- tech books, research papers, novels, comics- all of them.
I use paid apps for reading documents. I always use the lowest brightness available when indoors, with an always on blue light filter. This is a much better option and is very cost effective.
This is the best way I have to read books.
I only buy physical books when I absolutely feel that I should collect it, for my future generation to see, or I must have it.