Why I don't like E-readers.

As you will recall, at the end of my post titled “Why I don't like tablets”, I said that my dislike of E-readers would be for another post. This is that post. And, without further adieu, my dislike of E-readers is quite simple. I dislike them because they reduce books to a computer file, something to be lost, or deleted. Say your E-reader was lost, stolen, or broken, what would happen to your books? Would you still have them? I know what your going to say, but the website I got them from will replace them, or that paper books can get stolen or damaged to. Well, first off, what if said website goes bust? Who will replace your books then? And how, short of a fire, or flood, does an entire library of books get destroyed. And I don't think I have heard of a thief steeling a copy of Twilight... And if you can manage to loose that many paper books all at once, you have worse problems then some missing books. Not to mention that the brick and morter book store is going extinct as a result. Which aside from the loss of jobs fore the people that worked at them, there is the loss of yet another place where people can meet by coincidence, and discuss similar interests. Before long, the only places people will be able to do something similar to that is ether on the ineternet, in noisy coffee shops, or in clubs (assuming you live in a place where coffee shops are (yes there are a few such increasingly rare places)). And that, is a sad thing, no matter how you look upon technology. This concludes the above post.