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WhiskeyDisk posted...

To be fair though, we were and are by our own admission, nerds. Had the Kindle been an option when we were adolescents, we certainly would have owned them and loaded them up with books like seasoned frequent fliers.

Hard to say, honestly. A lot of it depends on personal availability.

Like, I started reading because my dad had books around the house (he had a boxed set of LotR, Clash of the Titans and Dragonslayer novelizations, and a set of "abridged classics" including the Fall of the House of Usher, which set me down the path of my eventual love of Poe). So I read what was available, and what was accessible at the library, and in turn that's what helped build my love of books. To this day, I generally refuse to read anything (book related) on tablet at all (unless there's no other choice) because I feel like the tactile experience is as important as the words. Which stems from the experience I had reading those books as a kid.

So it isn't just whether or not tablets exist that is a factor, but how exposed to them you are. My parents were older when they raised me, and likely wouldn't have had a Kindle or a Nook or a tablet even if they'd been ubiquitous 20 years earlier than they actually were. So I wouldn't have grown up with them in the house, I would still have started reading paper books, and I'd still probably be a bit more biased towards them.

It's the generations of kids now - who are basically watching YouTube on tablets before they can even read at all - who are going to question why anyone would ever want to read a book made out of paper and ink when you can just download everything to your tablet. Of course, by the time they grow up we'll probably have direct neural interlink technology or something, where you download books straight into your brain.

Then again, those shits are assholes anyway. They're the reason why game developers are eventually going to stop making physical copies for people like me and make everything online-only account-locked digital exclusive with microtransactions and flossing. Damned kids.
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