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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
so in other words they are for people with more money than sense becasue anyone who buys an ipad just so they can read a book is a fucking idiot! books are more portable, don't need to be plugged in or charged and above all you could buy a hundred books for the price of an ipad.
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I have no intention of buying an electronic reader thing at the moment - they're too pricey for me, and I'm not convinced that the literature is out there. I would say, however, as a very low-level academic, the idea of being able to download a cuntload of .pdfs/ sections from books and whatnot and have an interface that is designed for that (in-screen notepads and so on) is more appealing than continuing to use my laptop, flipping between windows,
still copy-typing passages. Just since yesterday I've made two trips to and from the library with a shitload of books that I only need to read bits from. I haven't looked at what the ipad does, and I've no doubt that it's still inadequate for my actual needs, but I hope it's paradigmatic of more practical ways for me to exist without having to put my back out cunting books halfway across town in the shitting rain.
EDIT: HOWEVER, the first person I see with one of these will be mentally labelled a 'poncey cunt'