A criticism of e-books
The recent introduction of Kindle by Amazon has focused attention on e-books. Not everybody is enthusiastic about reading books this way. Ars Tecnica commentator Jon Stokes prefers real books and writes:
I firmly believe that the term “e-book” is an unfortunate misnomer and that the newly launched Kindle’s pretentious positioning as a modern reinvention of the book is just hype and hyperbole. It’s also indicative of a general ignorance that most of us who live in the electronic age have about the elaborate, collaboratively developed information architecture of the technology that we often refer to as “dead tree.”
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