When discussed in the present tense, ebooks means Amazon Kindle ebooks. Whether you love or hate ebooks is probably a function of what books mean to you, and why. Perhaps you like being able to carry a never-ending stack of books with you wherever you go, without having to actually lug them around. If you love ebooks, it might be because they are portable, and legible enough, and capable of delivering streams of words, fiction and nonfiction, into your eyes and brain with relative ease. If you hate ebooks like I do, that loathing might attach to their dim screens, their wonky typography, their weird pagination, their unnerving ephemerality, or the prison house of a proprietary ecosystem. I don’t know, except for knowing that ebooks are awful. Maybe I can’t stand the idea of looking at books as computers after a long day of looking at computers as computers. Perhaps, despite my long career in technology and media, I’m a secret Luddite. I hate them, but I don’t know why I hate them. P erhaps you’ve noticed that ebooks are awful.
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