It suddenly strikes me as a funny thing that I've never heard someone speak like this about audiobooks. They're a whole different format, too -- they don't have that new book smell, you can't skim your fingertips over the pages, you can't bend the spine or leave your mark on them.
No, but they replace the tactile and scent experience with an aural one - they're SUCH a huge change of format that it's almost not applicable (and I know plenty of people who hate audiobooks, and others who simply can't parse them), whereas an eReader is a different form of the same basic experience (using your eyes to derive meaning from set visual symbols).
I have absolutely no horse in the digi-vs-paper thing, and entirely agree that people bring a silly amount of unscrutinized knee-jerk emotion to the arguments; that bit just stuck out to me.
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Date: 2011-09-26 11:07 pm (UTC)It suddenly strikes me as a funny thing that I've never heard someone speak like this about audiobooks. They're a whole different format, too -- they don't have that new book smell, you can't skim your fingertips over the pages, you can't bend the spine or leave your mark on them.
No, but they replace the tactile and scent experience with an aural one - they're SUCH a huge change of format that it's almost not applicable (and I know plenty of people who hate audiobooks, and others who simply can't parse them), whereas an eReader is a different form of the same basic experience (using your eyes to derive meaning from set visual symbols).
I have absolutely no horse in the digi-vs-paper thing, and entirely agree that people bring a silly amount of unscrutinized knee-jerk emotion to the arguments; that bit just stuck out to me.