Battle of the Hard Copy - 12 Years On
Came across this post of mine from 12 years ago : Battle of the Hard Copy Write-Place (wwwrite-place.blogspot.com in which I write that in the battle of 'book versus e.reader', I would argue for the case of The Book, to the bitter end. Granted, I was talking about something called a 'View Quest Mediabox' which at the time was £52 and half the price of a Kindle, but oh, how new technology and age changes one's views. Apparently, at the time this 5 inch wonder could not only store hundreds of books but you could watch videos, listen to music and use a voice recorder on it. Clearly in 2011, the Smart Phone as we know it today had not reached me, or at least, I could not afford one then. I did get a Kindle like this which a quick Google search tells me was brought out by Amazon in September 2011. I soon lost interest in it as I could not get to grips with the turning the page buttons forward and back and as the device does not have a touch screen, for me the '