Late Adopters

There was a time when I was an early adopter when it came to technology. Or atleast an early adopter wannabe when I could not afford it. Use email! Use the latest and greatest technology! Use webcams! Use chat! And look at the older generation with sympathy when they couldnt use Outlook Express or a Mouse. Or even worse when they could not understand why a computer + the internet was so great.
Till it came to ebooks. Can't stand them. Only use them for technical books where the value of copy and paste overrules the distaste for ebooks. But fiction? No way. Kindle? Thats to be burnt. And now IPad and Digital Comics. So far there had never seemed to be a viable device for reading comics (and Im glad to see that some people still think that the IPad isn't it for comics yet) but the game seems to have changed with the new tablets. Print comics will die or atleast be ridiculously expensive. I just hope it will be after my time. I can't see the value of possessing a file - my comic has always been my copy and thus has value- Though this has taken aim at my philosophy of I'm a reader first, collector second and shot gaping holes through it. Lending a book still had value than copying a file. I suppose because while lent, you can't read the book. So valiantly I spend 70 bucks per weeks hoping that these contributions will keep the print industry in business just a little while longer, while knowing that the early adopters look at me with maybe a little sympathy, maybe a little frustration.