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Originally Posted by Shenandoah

Isn't that a bit... I dunno... harsh, Red? I just got one for Christmas. I value the word both on the screen and on the paper. I have bought books after I've bought my e-reader. But think. If you buy every single book that is currently for free on an e-reader, you will spend thousands, if not millions, of dollars. I have so many classics I can sink my teeth into, now, that I couldn't have before due to the fact I didn't have the money for it.

As for screens being hard on the eyes, my Nook Color can reverse the color of the background so that it is white text on black. That is so easy on your eyes. Not to mention, I dimmed the brightness. I can read in a pitch black room and my eyes wouldn't hurt one bit.

Um an e-reader itself costs like hundreds of dollars as opposed to a paperback novel with no complimentary item needed for under ten dollars. Textbooks for school do cost a fortune yes but I am pretty sure the e-reader matches very closely with the $140 I paid for the two math books(EACH) for math classes the past few years(and got $15 back for, $15! damn school system). Last semester however and this my books were surprisingly cheaper for used copies of one text book. This semester my Japanese II text book was an astonishing $17.21 as opposed to those $140 math books(although they were new, one of which I had to wait on a new shipment for).

Sure an e-book itself may cost like a buck, but hello, you need the hundred whatever dollar device to read it on! So I don't understand the comparison and how people can say e-books are cheaper. You don't need a fortune to read a book on something. It's just a book.

The thought of sitting somewhere with a screen on a rectangle with you reading just seems to me, well it just doesn't look good. Don't get me wrong, I have read stuff off a screen before, and it doesn't bother me greatly but I don't want it be the ONLY means of reading someday. Sorry it's not appealing to me.

It's just sad to me that no one can just enjoy things in simple forms anymore. Technology is taking over everything.