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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (review) The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:06:43 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <ug4dvjhknhpfr1qa5qjnbgh1qi3omrdeng@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 13:26:04 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>Nicoll) wrote:
>
>>In article <vt4v2a$3u9r0$1@dont-email.me>,
>>Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>Tony Nance wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I spend enough of my work time reading a screen that I don't enjoy
>>>> reading for pleasure on one. But works like this one -- not available
>>>> on paper to this point -- make me sorely tempted to put up with it
>>>> anyway.
>>>
>>>For me, there's a big difference between the desktop monitor and my
>>>e-reader on the iPad. Although no longer a productive member of
>>>society, I still spend a good bit of the day using the desktop for
>>>various things.
>>>
>>>I wasn't sure how I'd feel about e-books when I first tried, but I was
>>>quickly won over any that's pretty much my only reading method. I never
>>>had big stacks of unread books, and now I never run into the problem of
>>>running out. As long as I have internet, the library and book sellers
>>>are always open.
>>>
>>>I have the e-reader set to dark mode, which I find very soothing, and I
>>>can adjust the font size to the point where I don't need to bother with
>>>reading glasses.
>>
>>I have a vast ebook library and I do most of my reading using my
>>e-reader (or tablet, for pdfs) but the sensation of reading words 
>>on screen is for reasons I don't understand less pleasing than
>>words on paper. 
>
>Holding a reader (or not holding anything) does not have the same
>tactile feel that holding a book has. Or, for that matter, the same
>smell.

There also seems to be a significant sensory difference between ink 
on paper and e-ink on e-paper. But I can't articulate it. 

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