Again, the issue I’m raising is comparing within a category works but between categories doesn’t.
I am certainly not saying that two comparisons within a category are equal!!!
I’m am pointing out via example that it is possible to avoid cross-category comparisons. Whether those intra-category comparisons are equal is another matter.
There are posts here that are like reading a series of posts where people are comparing the cornering maneuvering of two cars and someone pipes in, quoting one of those posts, and brings up how one car (only mentioning that one car) has leather seats. Nevermind that that wasn’t what the quoted post is about as well as ignoring that the other car might come with leather seats as well.
Comparing apples to apples is good! Comparing apples to oranges makes a very poor argument and isn’t nearly as helpful to people like the OP.
Okay, ftg. what was your point in harping on what the company can or might do, if it wasn’t a worry about whether or not customers would have perpetual access to the books they’ve purchased?
They may be separate product lines; but there is a product still called Kindle Fire on Amazon, and there is a product called Kindle E-reader so you CAN have 3 Kindles, and some of them could also be a Fire.
People are making weird posts. They counter one thing about eBooks with a completely unrelated thing about books. As I have repeatedly said: apples and oranges.
To highlight this weirdness I have pointed out how apples and apples comparisons might be done.
I am in no way shape or form suggesting that the apples and apples examples are really great examples. Only that they do exist and suggest that people think about the type of comparison they are making before posting.
Don’t you think its really odd that 1. People keep making weird apples and oranges comparisons? 2. That they completely fail to see what is going on?
Now, I could make hypotheses about all this, but I’d be getting into stuff best left unsaid.
I say this with no sarcasm whatsoever: I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
A book–ebook or dead-tree contains information. The bulk of the discussion is which is more vulnerable to loss of data, which is easier to back up, etc.
I’m interested! Aren’t the new Paperwhites just sooo divine? We are so lucky to live in this year.
I always think about the books Robert Heinlein had his characters read. He imagined books on scrolls - like an autoadvancing film strip. He describes his characters manually picking up the physical book scroll and sticking it into a projector which projects the text on the ceiling.
I think these Paperwhites are so much more elegant and convenient, with the popup touchscreens and footnotes, and hundreds of books available all the time.
