Re: (review) The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

On 4/9/2025 10:30 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 13:26:04 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
 

In article <vt4v2a$3u9r0$1@dont-email.me>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

Tony Nance wrote:
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I spend enough of my work time reading a screen that I don't enjoy
reading for pleasure on one. But works like this one -- not available
on paper to this point -- make me sorely tempted to put up with it
anyway.

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For me, there's a big difference between the desktop monitor and my
e-reader on the iPad. Although no longer a productive member of
society, I still spend a good bit of the day using the desktop for
various things.
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I wasn't sure how I'd feel about e-books when I first tried, but I was
quickly won over any that's pretty much my only reading method. I never
had big stacks of unread books, and now I never run into the problem of
running out. As long as I have internet, the library and book sellers
are always open.
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I have the e-reader set to dark mode, which I find very soothing, and I
can adjust the font size to the point where I don't need to bother with
reading glasses.

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I have a vast ebook library and I do most of my reading using my
e-reader (or tablet, for pdfs) but the sensation of reading words
on screen is for reasons I don't understand less pleasing than
words on paper.

 Holding a reader (or not holding anything) does not have the same
tactile feel that holding a book has. Or, for that matter, the same
smell.

Dude, we agree on something !
Except when the book smells of mildew.  That is just nasty.  I threw out a couple of thousand books after the Great Flood Of 1989 because they were immersed and then mildewed.
Lynn