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May 26th, 2010 |

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Just read a tongue in cheek piece over at ereads by Richard Curtis entitled ‘Quaint Brits Cling To Paper’ and why we, unlike our American cousins, won’t grasp the tech that is ereaders (This follows on from a survey reported last week in the DTeleg).

Perhaps it is because we like the feel of a proper book/newspaper and… If you drop a book earthwards from the 10th floor it still works; books don’t need batteries; if you’ve run out of fag papers you can’t tear a strip off an ereader; if you burn an ereader you’ll get a god awful smell but it won’t keep you warm; you can’t keep food warm wrapped in an ereader and you can’t wipe your ar*e on a Kindle!

Then again it may be that Big Brother won’t delete my copy of 1984 and Animal Farm overnight from my library - that and the fact I do not want to pay £200+ for something that will be outdated in a couple of years.

Americans? Phuh!

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