On a similar note, I was incensed by the comments of a man in Hay-on-Wye, in Britain. He wants to ban Kindles and so on from that literary festival, saying that ebooks are antisocial. I sent him a polite but nonetheless angry email pointing out that without ebooks, my mother and I would no longer be able to share the joy of reading, and that neither of us feel any urge to patronise his shop ever in future until he apologises.

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