MM>   Re: Re: Autumn
MM>   By: Mike Powell to Rob Mccart on Sat Sep 26 2026 08:54:28
MM>
MM>  > I am not too surprised. Between COVID,... it is nice to have
MM>  > the real thing.
MM>
MM> How did COVID make people want to read paper vs. digital books?

I cannot speak for others but, for me, COVID meant spending a *whole* lot more
time in front of a computer for work.  No more getting up to and leaving it for
a meeting... everything happened on screen.

After my working hours, it was nice to have a break from the PC and other
electronics.  There is no way I would have finished War of the Worlds, or the
several other H. G. Wells books I read during COVID, if I had to read them from
a screen, too.

Granted I have never been much of an ebook reader, though, but I have read a few
that way.  When I was reading "From the Earth to the Moon (and a Trip Around
It)," when I didn't have access to the physical book I was able to continue
reading it online from the wikimedia books site.

Mike

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