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Why such a disrespect for books? Judging from your post many kids don't care about books, but I know many who would make a scandal because there's a scratch on their iPod.
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I know what you mean. My mom found a 19th century edition of Walter Scott's poetry (hard-bound, with REAL gold on the cover!) at a flea market that cost less than what you would usually pay for a milkshake. Not that I'm complaining - it's just that I find it almost funny how so many people do not value books.
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I still hold my firm stance against reading books that are not really books. That is odd; well, I'm an odd sort of person.  I generally dislike technology. I don't have (and don't want) any iPods, Macs, Blackberries, iPhones, or whatever else is popular now. All I have is the cheapest cellphone I could find, and a computer that I could call my own because my parents forced me to keep it.
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Mostly agreed. I understand that for people with a low budget, e-readers can be a life-saver, but for me, any book that is worth reading is worth buying, especially since we probably won't have too many real books some thirty years down the line because of deforestation (and also technology). I can live in a small apartment in a lousy city – but I can't live in a big house that doesn't have any books in it.
And yeah, for the longest time I kept a dinosaur of a cell phone. It was only when it wheezed its last wheeze that I bought a new one
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Am I an old-fashioned kid? Probably. That's the only reason I could come up with for my animosity towards electronic books.
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No, I don't think so. You just like having the real thing in your hand - sort of the way I prefer letters to emails
