Dans un long article publié sur son site, et intitulé You can’t be a fan of SF and lament the rise of ebooks, Alan Baxter (Mage Sign), en amoureux des livres et de la SF, se dresse contre les critiques intempestives dont sont victimes les ebooks.

Il évoque les avantages d'un tel format, et explique que, principalement, lorsqu'on achète un livre, ce n'est pas l'odeur ni le toucher propres au format papier que nous recherchons, mais le frisson procuré par l'histoire que le livre raconte. Extrait :

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The title says it all. You just can’t. I won’t allow it. I hear it so often and I find it baffling. I know what it means to love books. I love books to a degree most would consider unhealthy. I’m a bibliophile of the highest order. The feel, the weight, the smell, the sound of a page turning. Awesome. And there will always be books. But they will be less and less common, as I’ve said here so many times before, and ebooks will be the mainstream before much longer. And that’s okay. You know what I like more than books? Stories. I love stories. I love to read the tales of others, to marvel at a great writer’s turn of phrase, to be transported by a great author’s incredible ideas. Rarely do I ever find that sense of wonder so much as I find it in science fiction and fantasy. Now, I know there are fantasy fans out there who don’t really like sci-fi. They’re the kind of people who wish we all lived in castles and rode horses and wore sack-cloth vests and said things like verily and thou art. I get that, I really do. Those people lamenting the slow demise of books as a mainstream delivery system for stories is fairly understandable. The hardcore fantasy fans lament all technology and yearn for an older, more agrarian society. Of course, they also yearn for magic and dragons, which is fine, but unlikely. About as unlikely as them surviving in a truly medieval world. Even the most hardcore fantasy fans would be chafing at the bit for some modern technology when they badly needed a bath to wash off the flea bites and smallpox.

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Priscilla Duran-Mulas